The FDA a {RICO} Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization and vaping

[DPLongo22]

Any Patriot Day Sales going on besides Breazy?

Does Breazy still have inventory? Last time I visited it was, um, "light".

I'll take a look (thanks, Smacks!).

 

[zoiDman]

Is the FDA a {RICO} Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization ? - The vaping problem explained as I see it.

Is the FDA a {RICO} Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization ? Is it in fact not working for the people of the United States and in fact working only for special interests that could not care less about the health of the American people? Is the current vendetta against the proven less harmful vaping alternative for tobacco use based on a corrupt receipt of money from corrupt organizations such as Bloomberg Philanthropies whose war on anything tobacco or nicotine related is not based upon science but rather a corrupt group whose only desire is to assert their will, even if their will is dangerous to public health?

Has the FDA {Food and Drug Administration, aka the Food and Death Administration} consistently denied the science and evidence of a safer tobacco product to satisfy special interests that promote the return of ex-smokers to smoking or to use alternative anti-smoking drugs promoted by the Pharmaceutical industry - And how much are these multi-trillion dollar a year industries paying the FDA to rule their way?

Does the current attempt to ban all flavored vape products really have anything to do with young users - - or is it in fact based upon a corrupt bias that is bought and paid for by corrupt organizations such as Bloomberg Philanthropies and corrupt politicians that are also bought and paid for by corrupt organizations such as Bloomberg Philanthropies ???

Also consider, that the FDA is and has been a corrupt division of government for a long time - Working for special financial interests such as big pharma - In '90s they were going to make all vitamins and dietary supplements subject to prescription use only - Apparently the supplement industry was bigger and stronger and had more people than the vaping industry because our nationwide petition drive worked and we got congress to pass legislation to block the FDA's corrupt attempt to regulate vitamins and supplements. The FDA bullies lost that one - Too bad the smaller vape industry can't come up with the super lawyers it needs to fight and win !

Again I ask: Should the FDA be charged under The RICO statues and disbanded as a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization ???

I'm Not going to try to get into a Discussion over All This. Because it seems more like a Rehash Rant. And a vehicle to Name-Drop Bloomberg's name.

But will say this... Why do you seem to Phrase the FDA like it is some Static, Unchanging Entity?

You weren't around the ECF when our friend Scott extended the Deeming Deadlines that allowed what we have bought in the last couple of Years to be sold. And took a Very Hands-Off approach to Enforcement in general. Especially regarding New Products entering the US Market

Don't get me Wrong. People like Zeller or Woodcock aren't exactly on my Christmas Card list. But maybe the Fault with the FDA's Leadership and it's Malfeasance Policies lay more at the feet of those who Appoint them? And the HSS that the FDA works under?

 

[Ed Brown]

At any rate we need another strategy - No I don't have one yet - And continuing to attack Bloomberg Philanthropies and Michael Bloomberg and implying he is buying off the politicians of the World is probably, even if partially true, will probably achieve nothing.

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Vaping may go underground in the US for a time while it stays alive in other countries, especially in Europe. When the climate in the US changes it could make a resurgence. The 1960's are over and those who thought they knew better are now running the show. That's why they are so self-righteous. But the hippie generation is dieing out. History shows that change never stops. Good ideas can be suppressed only so long. Patience can be an effective weapon. For those of us who stocked up, maybe it is incumbent on us to keep the torch burning and wait for an opening. That's a different strategy.

 

[Vapeon4Life]

But will say this... Why do you seem to Phrase the FDA like it is some Static, Unchanging Entity?

It's the now of that agency that counts - But its history of unfair control and influence goes back a long way:

Lawmakers’ Pressure On FDA Review Of New Tobacco Products Blurs Line Between Oversight And Undue Influence
".........
Over the past year, the volume of noise aimed at FDA over one particular duty—its review of applications for electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) and other “deemed” new tobacco products—has been dialed to 11.

Pressure has come from a variety of voices and in different forms. Anti-tobacco activist groups, for example, have lobbied FDA to subject ENDS products to the new-drug approval process instead of the legislatively prescribed Premarket Tobacco Product Application (PMTA) process. FDA has thus far ignored that demand, as we discussed in our last Forbes.com commentary.


Members of Congress—several of whom co-sponsored the 2009 Tobacco Control Act—have stage-managed a pageant of outrage over ENDS that has featured committee hearings, press conferences, and information requests and letters to FDA. While those are common tools of legislative oversight, the Members’ ENDS pressure campaign may have stepped over the line between oversight and impermissible interference with agency adjudication.........."

Lawmakers’ Pressure On FDA Review Of New Tobacco Products Blurs Line Between Oversight And Undue Influence