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Yesterday, I drove to DC and met with key staff at the White House
Office of Management and Budget (OMB), US House Energy & Commerce
Committee, and Subcommittee Chairs Joe Pitts and Tim Murphy urging
all of them to stop/prevent the FDA from giving the entire e-cig
industry to Big Tobacco.
The White House OMB is currently reviewing the potentially
forthcoming FDA regs, while the House E&C Committee and
Subcommittees have Congressional oversight over FDA, CDC
and the rest of DHHS.
I showed all of them 4 different cigalikes, 4 different mods/APVs
and a 10ml bottle of e-liquid, and pointed out that the APVs and
e-liquid are far superior to cigalikes for smoking cessation
and for reducing cigarette consumption, and that FDA regs would
ban all or virtually all e-liquid products (and perhaps APVs as well).
The three folks I met with at OMB didn't appear interested in
meeting me, and looked like they couldn't wait until the meeting
was over. It was the strangest meeting I've ever had.
After nearly a half hour, one of them told me I had several
minutes remaining. Two minutes later he abruptly ended
the meeting, then all three got up and left the room. At least
they shook my hand when I offered it and thanked them (as
they began walking down the hall).
In sharp contrast, the Congressional staff all appeared very
interested in what I had to say. I urged them to hold a public
hearing and invite e-cig consumers, me and other objective and
knowledgeable folks to testify about e-cigs and the impact of FDA
regulations, to renew their investigation of illegal CDC funding
for state/local lobbying by e-cig opponents, and to introduce
legislation I drafted two years ago that would require FDA to
conduct and publish a comprehensive disease risk assessment and
comparison of different types of tobacco products (including
vapor products) before the agency could impose the deeming regulation.
A potential silver lining of today's announcement by Philip Morris
International (in support of the FDA deeming and other e-cig regs)
is that it verifies what I said yesterday, and what I've been
saying about FDA e-cig regs for the past several years.
Office of Management and Budget (OMB), US House Energy & Commerce
Committee, and Subcommittee Chairs Joe Pitts and Tim Murphy urging
all of them to stop/prevent the FDA from giving the entire e-cig
industry to Big Tobacco.
The White House OMB is currently reviewing the potentially
forthcoming FDA regs, while the House E&C Committee and
Subcommittees have Congressional oversight over FDA, CDC
and the rest of DHHS.
I showed all of them 4 different cigalikes, 4 different mods/APVs
and a 10ml bottle of e-liquid, and pointed out that the APVs and
e-liquid are far superior to cigalikes for smoking cessation
and for reducing cigarette consumption, and that FDA regs would
ban all or virtually all e-liquid products (and perhaps APVs as well).
The three folks I met with at OMB didn't appear interested in
meeting me, and looked like they couldn't wait until the meeting
was over. It was the strangest meeting I've ever had.
After nearly a half hour, one of them told me I had several
minutes remaining. Two minutes later he abruptly ended
the meeting, then all three got up and left the room. At least
they shook my hand when I offered it and thanked them (as
they began walking down the hall).
In sharp contrast, the Congressional staff all appeared very
interested in what I had to say. I urged them to hold a public
hearing and invite e-cig consumers, me and other objective and
knowledgeable folks to testify about e-cigs and the impact of FDA
regulations, to renew their investigation of illegal CDC funding
for state/local lobbying by e-cig opponents, and to introduce
legislation I drafted two years ago that would require FDA to
conduct and publish a comprehensive disease risk assessment and
comparison of different types of tobacco products (including
vapor products) before the agency could impose the deeming regulation.
A potential silver lining of today's announcement by Philip Morris
International (in support of the FDA deeming and other e-cig regs)
is that it verifies what I said yesterday, and what I've been
saying about FDA e-cig regs for the past several years.
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