National Review's take on the Deeming Regulations

[mostlyclassics]

If a link to this has already appeared, my apology. But I couldn't find anything via the search function:

Blowing Smoke on E-Cigs, by Rich Lowry, National Review

National Review is a highly respected conservative magazine founded by William F. Buckley in 1955. The author, Rich Lowry, is the magazine's editor-in-chief.

 

[nclobo]

Good, common sense article that I had not read before. Thanks for posting.

 

[Kent C]

Hadn't seen it before (and I checked :- )

Some great nuggets here:

- Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell hailed the action as “an important step in the fight for a tobacco-free generation” — never mind, of course, that e-cigarettes are tobacco-free.

- Regulators purport to fear what is still unknown about e-cigarettes, while ignoring all the evidence that they are vastly safer than analog cigarettes (if cigarettes were only nicotine, they wouldn’t be so problematic). It’s like trying to prove to environmentalists who hate all fossil fuels that fracking is safe.

- The FDA is evidently operating on the basis of a regulator’s reverse Hippocratic oath: First, do harm to a burgeoning industry — then hope to find some evidentiary justification for it at some later date.

 

[KentA]

Thanks for the link, mostlyclassics.

With any luck, articles like this in the mainstream press can cause the FDA's actions to backfire on them. The results may be good for vaping in the long run.

 

[sofarsogood]

If a link to this has already appeared, my apology. But I couldn't find anything via the search function:

Blowing Smoke on E-Cigs, by Rich Lowry, National Review

National Review is a highly respected conservative magazine founded by William F. Buckley in 1955. The author, Rich Lowry, is the magazine's editor-in-chief.

The phrase "so-called public health" is becoming embedded in the language. Like some other things, it's here to stay.