Using FDA definition how are pipes NOT a tobacco product?

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"FDA is aware that certain products made or derived from tobacco, such as electronic cigarettes, are not currently subject to pre-market review requirements of the Family Smoking Prevention and tobacco Control Act. (Emphasis mine)

This quote is from the FDA site:

www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/PublicHealthFocus/ucm172906.htm

Please forgive me for having some catching up to do, but I haven't been able to find threads on this issue. If anyone can direct me, I would appreciate it.

Shouldn't the focus be on the liquids containing nicotine? E-cigs are paraphenalia, and until tobacco is a regulated drug, why should they not be regulated identically to pipes?

It is a huge mistake is to call PVs cigarettes. The product is young enough to change it's name. Manufacturers, retailers and users need to immediately drop the term Ecig and use " Personal
Vaporizer" exclusively.
 
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Shouldn't the focus be on the liquids containing nicotine? E-cigs are paraphenalia, and until tobacco is a regulated drug, why should they not be regulated identically to pipes?

In a sense, e-cigarettes ARE regulated identically to pipes...which is to say, they aren't yet. When the FDA agreed to follow the District and Appeals courts' ruling and not attempt to regulate products (that don't make therapeutic claims) as tobacco products under their new authority from the Family Smoking Prevention & Tobacco Control Act, e-cigarettes joined pipes, cigars, and smokeless as "unregulated tobacco products". They hope to convince people that "unregulated" means it is unsafe, but the truth is that the FDA has only bothered to regulate the most dangerous products.

It is a huge mistake is to call PVs cigarettes. The product is young enough to change it's name. Manufacturers, retailers and users need to immediately drop the term Ecig and use " Personal
Vaporizer" exclusively.

The reason they are called e-cigarettes is because they are marketed as a replacement for current smokers. Once you actually use an e-cig for a while, you eventually stop "e-smoking" and evolve into "vaping" in a way that doesn't have very much in common with smoking and you start calling it a "personal vaporizer" when you are more interested in battery life, vapor production, etc and it stops looking anything like a cigarette.

There is no need to give into the denormalization and act as if tobacco is somehow inherently "evil" by trying to avoid association with other tobacco products. You are right that e-cigarettes function in a way that more closely resembles a pipe (and probably should be regulated as such), but an "e-pipe" is an PV that looks like a pipe and an "e-cig" is a PV that looks like a cigarette, etc...

The FDA is currently accepting public opinion on how to best regulate electronic cigarettes and modified risk tobacco products, but until somebody suggests a way to ensure that e-cigarettes won't be a serious threat to the Pharmaceutical companies the FDA is supposed to be protecting us from, I suspect they'll continue dragging their feet as long as they can.
 
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