Im guessing there will be so much red tape and regulation in regards to e-liquid manufacturers in addition to licensing fees and lab requirements that the price of juice is going to skyrocket and put a lot of smaller mom and pop shops out of business.
Sucks for them and translates into exorbitant prices for us.
If the F.D.A isnt VERY careful they will end up losing any tax revenues they would make as a lot of us are forced back into smoking.
We need an economist with an economic survey on our side to present to the FDA and to our congressmen and senators. All some of them understand is money.
The money the FDA would be getting would not come from tax dollars, it would come from the fees that the BT and probably BV (NJoy?) would have to pay the FDA for processing their product test results and applications for approval as a "New, Inovative" reduced harm alternative. They have laid out a plan for that testing process which is basically the same as for the medical patches and gum etc. It requires millions of $$$ in testing to be done by the companies or third parties, and THEN millions of $$ paid to the FDA to examine all the reports of the testing. It's empire-building.
Oh, and since they've been taking money and paperwork for 3500 wanna-be cigarette-introducers or changers over the last 3 years without approving ONE, they are probably hoping all the Mom and Pop shops are stupid-enough to break themselves trying to pay the FDA for approvals they'll never qualify for.
And they'll get tax revenues either from cigarettes or e-cigs, since some folks will go to the cigalikes and most others will go back to smoking. BTW, smokers SAVE governments money, big-time, by dying earlier and faster than other folks.
