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FDA Chief Considers Ban of All Flavored E-Cigarettes (wsj.com)
Calling a surge in teen use of e-cigarettes an epidemic, the head of the Food and Drug Administration says he is considering pulling all flavored e-cigarettes from the U.S. market. From a report: After years of declining U.S. smoking rates, sales of e-cigarettes have jumped in the past year, fueled in part by online startups selling vaporizers and nicotine-laced liquids. The most popular brand, Juul, sells refills with mango, cucumber and creme flavors. Each $4 pod contains as much nicotine as a pack of cigarettes. "The number of teenagers we believe are now using these products... has reached an epidemic proportion," said FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, who is expected to announce new measures Wednesday to curb underage use. Dr. Gottlieb said he believes that certain flavors make the products appealing to teens. "The availability of e-cigarettes cannot come at the expense of addicting a new generation of youth onto nicotine, and it won't," he said in an interview. Alternative source, and official announcement.
Ban cigarettes while your at it dipshit.
I object to power without constructive purpose. --Spock
No one wants to walk though your cloud of second-hand blueberry fumes!
The FDA has no authority to regulate if the juice contains no nicotine and teens who don't already spoke don't use the nicotine juice. You can make any flavor with or without it, the nicotine is an add on.
Ban it!
http://www.acetonestudio.com
Sure, you can regulate pre-made juice and disposable e-cigs but refillable e-cigs allows me the option to purchase the individual components to make my own e-juice.
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While I applaud the sentiment, people can add their own flavors to the nicotine solution already, so I'm not sure how this will help.
What flavors are they banning, and how are they determining that.
Mine is a sweetish tobacco flavor with vanilla in it. Will that be banned?
The millennial that doesn't like most of the stuff designed for millennials.
It's really baffling that these e-cigarettes have nicotine in the first place. Isn't it obvious that including that ingredient is specifically done to create addiction? With tobacco at least one could argue that it's a natural part of the product, but by adding it to e-cigs CLEARLY shows the intention of the manufacturers to get people addicted. If you want e-cigs to help smokers stop smoking, that's one thing, but to have it generally available to everyone is just crazy.
what happened to its not smoke so its safe and all that. whore cares if lots of kids are doing it, if its not a health concern... unless it actually is a health concern... clarification required.
Prohibition works great! Look at all the money there is to be made in the drug creation, enforcement and prison systems! I mean, there are occasionally issues here and there, but that's nothing that more brutal enforcement and punitive punishments can't fix.
I propose we limit it to just one receiver - and you've been nominated.
Vaping, for some of us, is the only thing that we found that could keep us from smoking. Personally, I will sue the FDA if they do this. For my own health and ability to breathe. My Peach 3mil Vape juice is FAR less nicotine than the 12mg PER CIGARETTE that I was ingesting before. Smoker since age 11. Almost 30 years, and up to 3 packs A DAY. Vaping took that habit away in a SINGLE DAY. No more bad smells, no more wheezing and coughing, immediate improvement in breathing function, better sleep.... If you take that away, MANY MANY MANY people will sue. This is a lifeline for some. Get off your lazy asses and control the sale better!
I don't think that the flavoring is the problem, it's the nicotine. Otherwise, who would ever pick up smoking? It really only tastes good once you're addicted.
e-cigs/vaping is utterly stupid, and serves absolutely no purpose other than to normalize abusing your lungs in ways they weren't meant to be. if humans were meant to breathe smoke, we'd be dragons, not humans. just say no.
No, make it mandatory
Lets put aside the fact that you should be able to decide what you put in your own body for a moment...
Why the fuck does it matter if people get addicted to something that's not harmful?
Literally billions of people are addicted to caffeine but nobody cares because it's not harmful.
Stop being hypocrites
They do seem to be milking this situation in the most hypocritical way.
On the one hand, restrict, preach, shame.
On the other, tax, tax, tax.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
I have to say I agree with this.
There's nothing worse than smelling donuts or cotton candy, and you turn the corner thinking "Mmmm I'm gonna treat myself to something tasty!"
But no... It's just Brad and his cloud of LIES.
Who's done more research than the good people at the American E-Cig Industry? They say its harmless. Why would they lie? If you're dead, you can't smoke.
Case closed.
Shouldn't this only apply to ones containing nicotine?
Just a thought.
You just want them banned because black people use them. Fuck off.
From the first time I ever read about these I thought "drug delivery device", and my opinion hasn't changed. I'd also prefer our species evolved past self-destructive behaviors like smoking, too, but I guess it has to be baby steps, and nipping yet another needless vice in the bud is not a bad thing. Face it, people: it's just being leveraged into yet another way to addict people to something. Evil, wrong, bad, far from harmless. Whine and complain about my opinion all you like but if you're a smoker or vape user all you're doing is sounding like every chronic drug user on the planet, defending your addiction. Don't bother I won't take you seriously.
The FDA kept cigarettes legal and plentiful, and now ecigs are some kind of emergency?
https://www.youtube.com/c/BrendaEM
Okay, you have 2million kids now using e-cigs.
How does that compare to before e-cigs were available? How many kids were cig smokers in the past?
RJR tried it in their Camel line, and if I remember correctly from my days smoking filter cigarettes, I only liked only one of the flavours. This was in the late 1980's, before they got banned. Of course, I just kept smoking my Pall Mall non-filtered, which I still do to this day.
FYI, a carton used to be $10 and is now $80. I could not afford my 5 pack per day habit today, because I only make 5x what I made in 1990.
A typical Illiberal line of thinking:
Any time you think, a new law/regulation should be put in place, check, whether your reasoning falls into one of the above. And, if it does, shut up and take a cold shower.
Examples include:
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
Camel had flavored cigarettes well into the mid 2000s. My friend started smoking after I left a tin of Camel Cremas in his car. They had other ones like Dark Chocolate Mint, Izmir Stingers (sweet and sour), High Ball (whiskey flavored), one that was Orange and Chocolate.
They were in some weird line that only came in tins - It was this line
Heh, I don't know how you Yanks can still say that with a straight face!
Done?
Nicotine is an addictive drug that should be regulated under Schedule 3N and require a prescription as part of a smoking cessation program, that is controlled by a licensed practitioner.
Nobody should be able to buy addictive drugs over the counter.
How about restricting sales to minors instead, genius? I don't see anyone banning cigarettes or flavored beer, of which there are hundreds at this point, which leads me to believe there's something else going on here.
Why is everyone always trying to defeat natural selection? It's as if they hate nature and want to tank the human genome.
Could have installed a useless puppet at the head of FDA too.
He's the dick? YOU are the one who is clutchin pearls and thinkin about the children, you sick fuck. Anything you conservatives don't approve of MUST be banned. And you'll do it all the while screamin FREEDUMB and claiming the libs made you. Fuck off and die.
Anyone care to guess who's money is lining his pockets? Wouldn't surprise me at all if big tobacco was.
All those lovely tax dollars rolling in and the wonderful side effect of mainly poorer people dying earlier, before they become a burden on the state! No wonder govts have never banned cigarettes!
My son attends a public high school in Murfreesboro Tennessee. Of his circle of friends 2/3s have tried a Juul, and 1/3 are current users.
Quoting him, "They say it looks like a USB stick, so if your parents see it you don't get in trouble."
Congratulations Nicotine industry, you've figured out a way to hook another generation. Well done.
It suggests that everything harmful is banned, I.e. everything not banned is not...
People, including. parents and teachers educating and raising children, should take their own responsibility. Teens should start with taking responsibility for their own future and health as they grow older. Trusting the government to ban all harmful things is hopeless and counterproductive.