Marshall County West Virginia bans E-cigarettes

[zereoue20]

Health Officials Claim E-Cig Vapor Is Concern for Public - News, Sports, Jobs - The Intelligencer / Wheeling News-Register

 

[ByStander1]

Marshall County has already included ecigs in their county's clean air regulations. The article is from a paper in Wheeling, WV (Ohio County).

Wheeling doesn't have any regs about ecigs right now... The important thing is the Wheeling-Ohio Board of Health is meeting this Thursday at 4pm to consider including ecigs in their clean air regulations. As a vaper, I hope you'll try to be there and speak against ecigs being included in any public health clean air regulations.

Vapers needed to show up and fight this!!! Please!!!

(Yes, I'll be there. My county could be next.)

 

[Vocalek]

Matt Zuke and I are having a lot of fun playing with TheWrath in the comments section.l

 

[ByStander1]

Matt Zuke and I are having a lot of fun playing with TheWrath in the comments section.l

Yes you are!!! LOL!!!

You guys are Amazing... as always!

 

[DC2]

I'm trying to register, but I haven't gotten an email yet.

Since that ......... insists on quoting the FDA case (that they lost) perhaps he would like to see this part...

FDA contends that the public interest in health and safety weighs in favor of denying preliminary relief because, by enforcing the FDCA as it sees fit, FDA protects the public from unsafe and ineffective drugs. FDA further contends that the potential harm to other interested parties or to the public interest, should the court grant the preliminary injunction and allow the unapproved electronic cigarettes into the market, would far outweigh the economic harm to plaintiffs, should the court deny the preliminary injunction. I disagree. While FDA's interest in protecting public health and safety is, in the abstract, paramount to plaintiffs' purely economic interests, given the particular facts and circumstances of this case, I am not convinced that the threat to the public interest in general or to third parties in particular is as great as FDA suggests. Together, both Smoking Everywhere and njoy have already sold hundreds of thousands of electronic cigarettes, yet FDA cites no evidence that those electronic cigarettes have endangered anyone.

 

[rothenbj]

Darn, I'm getting a server error, may be overloaded. Did we blow it up with comments?

 

[ByStander1]

Rothenbj, it's looking like you may have... site's down lol!

 

[maureengill]

It's a bad sign when they find a way to silence the public....online or offline....

 

[rolygate]

Just doing some tweaking. Some major tweaking...

 

[Vocalek]

They must have fixed it. They are now up to 78 comments.

 

[zereoue20]

I've been pretty busy, wish I could have seen these posts. Didn't know about the meeting in Ohio county until about an hour ago. Unfortunately, I was working anyway. Yeah, that Wrath is a real piece of work.

 

[zereoue20]

oh, and how did the meeting go, if any of you were able to make it?

 

[rothenbj]

oh, and how did the meeting go, if any of you were able to make it?

Article about meeting-

E-Cigs Aren

"The e-cigarette industry opted not to have to prove their safety, said Dr. William Mercer, Wheeling-Ohio County health officer."

Now isn't that a queer way of stating the industry didn't want to vanish from the market for the next decade or so until the FDA could totally quash it, leaving smokers the only options the ANTZ wish to give, "quit or die"?

 

[ByStander1]

Exactly, Rothenbj! And... he repeated those same words and "circumvented FDA testing" was another favorite -- and oft repeated -- phrase. Frustrating!!!

 

[rothenbj]

Hey ByStander, at least you made the paper.

I posted-

As far as the statement, "The e-cigarette industry opted not to have to prove their safety, said Dr. William Mercer, Wheeling-Ohio County health officer."

That is very disingenuous of the good doctor. Being in the health industry, he knows full well that what the FDA was asking was for the immediate withdraw from the market of the product, 10 or more years and tens of millions spent with the goal of getting FDA approval which would never happen.

The FDA gets paid by Big Pharma, they are in the drug industry's pocket. They would never allow a product that could hurt BP's profits on the market. It's really a moot point anyway. E Cigs are not an NRT product, they're an alternative to smoking and being that, a pretty darn good alternative.

 

[ByStander1]

At least there's that...

If ecigs are in the news, at least it'll have some smokers thinking...

...they need to, since it's apparent so many hc pros refuse to think.

But I'm not bitter! lol! just annoyed...

 

[zereoue20]

I'm getting more bitter by the day. As stated, since when do appointed committees get the power to just run around banning anything they want with no vote, no law, and very obviously, no research.

 

[Crumpet]

The onus of proof should be on the ones who want to BAN a product, not the makers of a product to prove that it is 'safe'. This isn't a food item. Also, I get the sneaky suspicion that e-cig makers would have to prove 'safety' with much more scrutiny and far less latitude than what is given to Big Pharma's products (can you say Chantix, anyone?). A BP product is permitted to have all kinds of serious health risks and still be marketed. E-cigs would have to have not one inkling of an iota that any kind of negative effect could happen whatsoever in order to meet that same trumped up standard of 'safety'.

 

[kristin]

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[zereoue20]

Friended, Kristin. I completely agree, Crumpet. I don't think whispering the 500 side effects at the end of the commercial would pass muster if it were an ecig.