FDA Sides With US!

[jtoddaz]

I guess this puts off the armageddon order for a while, at least.

 

[Taryn]

I've been thinking about it, although I do not want the ecig to be classified as a drug delivery device or the juice as a drug. Wouldn't it honestly be better classified as a drug than tobacco (in the long run after FDA approval) due to the fact there is no "sin" tax or ban on flavors like there is with tobacco products.

 

[LastOutlaw]

I hope they have to repay the buyers of those shipments for loss of sales and loss of product if they were of an earlier model that there is no longer a buyer for. Any Juices that have suffered damage due to storage conditions and the such.

Unfortunately that would warrant a whole new suit against the US customs or the FDA whoever is responsible for the seizure by the owner of the product seized before anything along those lines could take place would be my guess.

 

[Pav]

Nice. Since I started vaping I went from thinking they would be banned outright and struggling with the aggravations of a 3 piece until I was just about ready to give up.

Then I tried the VK and now hear this good news. All seems back on track.

Vape on!

 

[LastOutlaw]

Steve, I think NOW is the time to think about a distribution network, since from what I understand, your shipments can no longer be confiscated.

I doubt that waiting for positive rulings is the answer or the holdup anyway. Lets face it the more people using these the harder it is going to be to kill them. This product sells itself and the higher the price of analogs go and the more damage they do the more people who will be willing to switch to a PV. I say get as many into as many hands as you can as fast as you can. Then you just have more people on your side. I think radio promotion and any other promotion of the PV is the best thing that can happen. Put one in as many hands as you can and you have that much more ammo to do battle with. There are still too many people who have never heard of this product. That needs to change as fast as possible and it needs to happen with products that work well like the V4L product.

 

[BohNeR]

I've been thinking about it, although I do not want the ecig to be classified as a drug delivery device or the juice as a drug. Wouldn't it honestly be better classified as a drug than tobacco (in the long run after FDA approval) due to the fact there is no "sin" tax or ban on flavors like there is with tobacco products.

Yes it would... After the eight to ten years that it would take to actually GET them approved, and the 1 billion or so dollars that it would cost them to do this.

 

[JohnnyVapor]

First, let me preface this by saying I'm not a lawyer. I do work for lawyers, though. I think Judge Leon's preliminary decision might help moving forward as a precedent. He basically made a mockery of the circular reasoning of the FDA to regulate e-cigs as a drug delivery device, which hopefully means either the FDA will abandon that line of reasoning, or if a new judge is on the case that he will read up on the earlier decision and ignore that line of reasoning.

In my opinion, this will still probably end with the e-cig market being regulated as a tobacco product, which will almost certainly mean additional taxes and possibly bans on flavors. However, the FDA has only banned flavored *cigarettes*. Other tobacco products are still allowed to be flavored. We'll have to see how it plays out.