Link to webcast of Dec. 17 FDA Public Hearing on NRT & Innovative Products

[kristin]

All Lou should have said about the lack of adverse affects regarding e-cigarettes is that there haven't been any reports of serious adverse affects reported on FDA's MedWatch in the same time thousands have been reported on FDA-approved NRT and even 200 deaths from Chantix.

 

[mecocina]

You tell them Lou!!!!

 

[DC2]

Not for nothing DC2, but Big Pharma has the FDA in there back pocket, and in my opinion the FDA basically works for Big Pharma, no one will ever admit to this but it basically does, and no one can put a scare into the FDA, they would laugh you right out of the meeting if you approached them like this, the people that are speaking on the ecig worlds behalf are doing a very good job so far.

The fact that the FDA works for Big Pharma is exactly the point I was trying to make.

And I want them to know that we know exactly what is going on.
And I want them to know that we aren't going to roll over and play dead for them.

And when I say I want them to know it, I mean I want them to see it, understand it, and know it full well.
If they try to screw us over, I really hope we all stand up and point at them and call them murderers for profit.

I'm pretty sure that isn't something they would want to see happen.
And I'd like very much for them to be concerned that it is exactly what will happen.

 

[elfstone]

Why doesn't he make the point that there is no chemical difference between NRTs and e-cigarettes, but that e-cigarettes, unlike NRTs are enjoyable and account for the behavioral component of the habit?!!!

 

[snork]

Whew! I was about to get all P.O.ed at Mr. Ritter then he began conveying our passion.

 

[Sandcrab]

Go AEMSA go!!!

 

[Skeetergirl]

Wow, Lou made me cry!!!

 

[elfstone]

Well... he is amazing, to be honest

 

[Throttles]

Damn Lou................way to throw it back at them. Really cannot stand that lady in red

 

[Dovahkiin]

Wow!!!!! Lou Ritter is knocking it out of the park.

My thoughts exactly

 

[Tecner]

Like a boss !!

 

[elfstone]

All this talk about standards and tests is perfect. It slaps them on the face - there is quality control! We KNOW what we are doing. We are NOT a cottage industry any more. It's not some shady guy working in his bathtub.

GO LOU!

 

[Reaperman]

I've had my own concerns about e-liquid, and this is actually very informative.
I believe AEMSA has just sold me on using only their members from now on.

 

[kristin]

 

[snork]

Yes, excellent job.
If AEMSA aspires to be a model, an example by which the FDA can judge us, I hope that AEMSA forever remembers they need to represent all of us. Being a trade organization is one thing, being a spokesman is another.

 

[mwa102464]

Lou, you knocked it out of the BallPark man, GREAT FREAKING JOB MAN !!!!

 

[elfstone]

Yeah, he pretty much settled that whiny thread over here.

All my respect for mom-and-pop e-liquid vendors, and I am a pluidhead, but we must move on into the future and join the grownups.

 

[tartanraven]

All Lou should have said about the lack of adverse affects regarding e-cigarettes is that there haven't been any reports of serious adverse affects reported on FDA's MedWatch in the same time thousands have been reported on FDA-approved NRT and even 200 deaths from Chantix.

Psychotropics used for smoking cessation have always made me quite nervous

 

[Dovahkiin]

Great job Lou !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[snork]

Yeah, he pretty much settled that whiny thread over here.

All my respect for mom-and-pop e-liquid vendors, and I am a pluidhead, but we must move on into the future and join the grownups.

Not me! Nyah nyah nyah!