I've just sent my veto request.
I sincerely hope he vetos... a minor victory, perhaps, but every little bit helps.
I sincerely hope he vetos... a minor victory, perhaps, but every little bit helps.
As a customer, I hope that someone is driven to get FDA approval for these products. I would sleep easier at night. If noone has even begun that step, I can hardly imagine that the pressure from the gov. is so great that the time to act is NOW!
Hi Lacey...
Love the comments on the forum. Extremely interesting stuff.
Been a smoker for the past forty odd years. Want to mone on now. Been reading a lot and finally thought I'd found the right ecig with a portable charger that could charge up to 18 times. Brilliant. Got in touch with Instead. They wont ship out of the States. Since I am UK based - simply cannot locate anything quite like their stuff. Wonder if it is possible that you could supply me with two sets and a portable charger. Would obviously pay inclusive of shipping etc.
can you help please.....
Looks like the petition is closed.
E-cigs are a new concept to me, and I am seriously considering a test run for myself, as I've had a desire to quit smoking for years (like most smokers). I feel that this may be the prayer answered for many people, as it seems to already be for most of you here.
However, before you go around accusing the FDA of strong-arming this *new* industry under influence of monetary interest, keep in mind that they did the same thing to nicotine gum and patches when they first arrived on the scene.
The FDA even seized many shipments of various products containing the great herb stevia, despite hundreds of years of use in other cultures. Why? Because they did not have sufficient objective, scientific data establishing it safe for consumption on a mass scale. The natives of Paraguay may have used the plant for millennia, but I doubt any of them extracted super-concentrates and prepared it for direct injection in the oh-so-gluttonous American style.
FDA critics accused our government of strong-arming the stevia market because of lobbying by NutraSweet. Two days ago, stevia was FDA approved and will soon appear in a whole slew of products from Coca-Cola and Pepsi Co.
So try and put your conspiratorical tendancies aside for a moment and realize that the FDA takes a scientific approach, one that is often slow (further slowed by the fact that it is government), and requires a solid foundation of evidence. The fact that nobody has yet to die from E-cigs does not prove that there is no potential hazard. That kind of logical fallacy is "Ad ignorantiam" and is not the practice of an establishment that has protected our citizens quite well thus far.
However saying that the FDA has done a wonderful job at protecting our citizens is in fact a statement that is false. There is no doubt that the FDA has made good rulings on some drugs and the like through the years, but it has also compensated more over with poor decisions in the time its been in existance.
I will use Stevia as an example....
Quoting from wikipedia
Not that your information is bad, but I generally avoid Wikipedia when making an argument, as these documents are often subject to bias.Wikis may exist to serve a specific purpose, and in such cases, users use their editorial rights to remove material that is considered "off topic". Such is the case of the collaborative encyclopedia Wikipedia.
Now take that case of the gum/patch/ chantix and other smoking cessation drugs. How long did it take the FDA to appove such products for consumption in the United States
The FDA is acting not in the self interest of the people at large, but acts in its own self interest. The FDA wants to wait a drug out and see its affects so that in turn it won't get egg on its face, and lose the confidence of the puplic at large.
The best answer as history has proven is to allow the individual to decide what risk he wishes to bare, and more over is the most compasionate in terms of who benefits from those decisions.