I just finished reading a study on how school age kids are NOT having a nicotine epidemic from the American vaping association.
Unrelated to this article, I was thinking that
I'm tired of everyone with power using tobacco and nicotine interchangeably. Either the FDA is talking about tobacco or nicotine. Nicotine may be a stimulant and habit forming. In cigarettes nicotine is used to addict people to smoking 400+ carcinogens. That's it's job.
It appears that the FDA has minimized the deadly chemical makeup of burning tobacco and instead moved it's focus to how addictive nicotine is because vaping products do not contain tobacco. In a burning tobacco cigarette, among the 400+ carcinogens , nicotine is one of the least likely to cause cancer.
There is no comparison in smoking burning tobacco and vaping . If people smoke tobacco to get the nicotine, and vape to get the nicotine, Vaping devices and liquid are nicotine delivery systems, not tobacco related products. If potatoes had nicotine in them, and people were consuming a lot of mashed potatoes to get their nicotine satisfaction , would it mean that mashed potatoes would be labeled "tobacco related" or a nicotine delivery system?
I guess what I want to say is that being the FDA, they should be more precise in their usage of words. Vaping liquid is not tobacco related, it's a nicotine delivery product that has no tobacco. The FDA should not be using assumptions and hearsay as facts as most anti vaping people do. It makes them sound like 5th graders creating regulations. Where are the facts? Where is the expertise? Where are the pro vaping studies and data? Everything they don't know is hidden in a lot of verbage. They are making regulations without conclusive data.
Bottom line is that in the last 9 years thousands of people have quit smoking using vaping products. Big Tobacco and the FDA do not like that fact. They build their arguments comparing apples to oranges. If they were correctly comparing apples to apples, there would be no argument and vaping products would not be "Tobacco related products". They would be "ANTI tobacco related products".
Unrelated to this article, I was thinking that
I'm tired of everyone with power using tobacco and nicotine interchangeably. Either the FDA is talking about tobacco or nicotine. Nicotine may be a stimulant and habit forming. In cigarettes nicotine is used to addict people to smoking 400+ carcinogens. That's it's job.
It appears that the FDA has minimized the deadly chemical makeup of burning tobacco and instead moved it's focus to how addictive nicotine is because vaping products do not contain tobacco. In a burning tobacco cigarette, among the 400+ carcinogens , nicotine is one of the least likely to cause cancer.
There is no comparison in smoking burning tobacco and vaping . If people smoke tobacco to get the nicotine, and vape to get the nicotine, Vaping devices and liquid are nicotine delivery systems, not tobacco related products. If potatoes had nicotine in them, and people were consuming a lot of mashed potatoes to get their nicotine satisfaction , would it mean that mashed potatoes would be labeled "tobacco related" or a nicotine delivery system?
I guess what I want to say is that being the FDA, they should be more precise in their usage of words. Vaping liquid is not tobacco related, it's a nicotine delivery product that has no tobacco. The FDA should not be using assumptions and hearsay as facts as most anti vaping people do. It makes them sound like 5th graders creating regulations. Where are the facts? Where is the expertise? Where are the pro vaping studies and data? Everything they don't know is hidden in a lot of verbage. They are making regulations without conclusive data.
Bottom line is that in the last 9 years thousands of people have quit smoking using vaping products. Big Tobacco and the FDA do not like that fact. They build their arguments comparing apples to oranges. If they were correctly comparing apples to apples, there would be no argument and vaping products would not be "Tobacco related products". They would be "ANTI tobacco related products".