Let them do it. The more extreme the better. That'll make it sure to be thrown out of court. Just like in 2009. The more extreme they over do it, the more likely they will fail in the end.
Yea, that's what I was hoping but this seems to be premeditated and crafted rather than impulsive. They pushed headlines out of "8 new products approved" just when they submit the final draft to OMB to prove there is a pathway through their impossible system. They intentionally confused new products and substainatonally equivelent, se, products which was what really was approved.
Ecigs have no se, so there was no approval that would help, only the rhetoric to anyone that might be concerned is that there is. That was no accident and that was a very dangerous sign of how they intend to play ball. The vaping industry does not have access to media headlines or secret meetings.
Today there was an artical in a medical journal about "marketers" twisting anti vaping promos with "unfounded statements" and calling for a ban on facebook and google. AVA has had a number or their releases pulled from facebook. I'm hoping that there isn't a ban on vaping groups since that's THE primary source of organizting, all the way down to local groups.
They are calling for outright censorship of our opinions. No reposting studies / positive articals in my own timeline. Notta. Facebook could do it since "tobacco" is against their TOS, although obviously unenforced at the moment. But this is the game that's being played. It's a nasty, dirty war.
As far as the 'process' goes, the OMB is the eighth step out of nine until it's real life. So if you haven't written to every law maker you can, better get on it because that may end as early as Janurary, starting with nic and flavors immediatley. That 2 year window appears to have strings attached. As bad as the draft was a year ago, it's nothing compared to this. It's as if we were lulled into a false sense of security that some compromise could be made, or they were logical, or reasonable. Nope.
This strangely mirrors the same things appearing elsewhere, in the EU specifically. Similar wording in places. I saw a post on FT from someone in the EU saying buying vape products online was ending for them in a month or so. The FDA is still ticked the final draft was leaked, whoever it was is out of a job, so this is still in the "rumour mill" category since the actual document is secret. Take us by surprise aka the raids on vape shops in Maylasia? It's rumour, but they are serious and there is no intention of compromise.
Vaping is a politically incorrect industry that's not well understood by the public and that's not good news for us. I don't know how we can fight them better. If anyone can, join in Not Blowing Smoke on Facebook.
