should stonewalls take this long to dissolve?

[sqirl1]

Axl, I know the regular Stonewalls required UPS but since the FDA has announced that the BDLs are not a tobacco product they wouldn't be covered by PACT. As I was writing that I realized they also wouldn't be covered by age restrictions either.

you sure the FDA has any control over age restrictions etc? I thought the ATF still has some jurisdiction over tobacco, wouldn't they still see those as tobacco products?

 

[rothenbj]

The FDA has been charged with "regulating" tobacco products. Star Scientific applied to the FDA to gain approval of their BDL products under the new Modified Risk category. I'm sure this created an issue for the FDA since this would allow advertising as such which would not only impact tobacco sales (losing the "this product is not a safe alternative..." bs) and more importantly, the BDL product would have favorable tsna characteristics to NRT products. Thus the FDA declared these products not to be tobacco products.

If they are not tobacco products PACT does not regulate them and the post office is not banned from shipping them. For that matter, there you be no legislation in place to ban underage sale of the products.

 

[sqirl1]

The FDA has been charged with "regulating" tobacco products. Star Scientific applied to the FDA to gain approval of their BDL products under the new Modified Risk category. I'm sure this created an issue for the FDA since this would allow advertising as such which would not only impact tobacco sales (losing the "this product is not a safe alternative..." bs) and more importantly, the BDL product would have favorable tsna characteristics to NRT products. Thus the FDA declared these products not to be tobacco products.

If they are not tobacco products PACT does not regulate them and the post office is not banned from shipping them. For that matter, there you be no legislation in place to ban underage sale of the products.

but couldn't the FDA's definition of a "tobacco product" differ from local or state government's definition, thereby keeping the age restrictions on them for that state? last time I checked the laws that keep anybody under 18 from buying tobacco, not the FDA or federal laws, unless the FDA added a federal age restriction as well. all I'm saying is, if you aren't 18, good luck walking into a gas station that sells BDLs and buying them without being carded.

 

[rothenbj]

Can't answer that question Sqirl. All I can tell you is the FDA does not consider Ss's BDL products tobacco products and do not classify them as such.

 

[Stubby]

Can't wait 'till fall so I can start giving free samples of Stonewalls to the kiddies at the local middle school. Free candy for all the little tots.

 

[sqirl1]

Can't wait 'till fall so I can start giving free samples of Stonewalls to the kiddies at the local middle school. Free candy for all the little tots.

Actually, at my middle school at least, you got caught with ANY drug (which I'm assuming the FDA wants to regulate it as), even caffeine pills, that carried a harsher punishment than tobacco products. I'm sure in the next couple years dissolvables will be more looked at as "nicotine pills" or "tobacco pills" or something to that effect.