Lotta "straw men" brought into this thread. Disregard them all. In the end, the only question the FDA will have is this one:
Is is okay for a foreign (or American) company to sell or market a new drug and drug delivery device to the American consumer without that product having met specific safeguards, all carefully spelled out in law and met by other products of a similar ilk?
That's the e-smoking question. It's not a question of limiting freedom of choice, conspiring to reward Big Tobacco, expanding the nanny state, or left or right-wing ideologies. Those are great issues on which to agree or disagree -- but they aren't the question before the FDA now about e-smoking.
Stand back, look at the big picture, and then say you'd just let those Chinese companies sell whatever they like as long as people will buy it. Nah, you wouldn't say that if you care about the public good. You'd say it needs approval first, like other drugs have obtained.
I can't see this any other way. And "information" doesn't come close to public protection and assurances needed.
I'm more than willing to be wrong when the FDA rules .. hope so .. I want to keep doing this. But seriously ... what do we expect given the present situation?