Posted on 04/05/2014 11:32:51 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Edited on 04/05/2014 11:33:44 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is "pushing very hard" to release a proposed rule that would establish its authority over e-cigarettes, the head of the agency said on Thursday amid concerns the products pose a risk to children.
FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg told senators at a Congressional budget hearing that it has taken too long to move the rule forward and that she expects the proposal to be ready for release "very soon."
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Yes they did. Used to buy them all the time.
They really made as many of them as of candy cigarettes? I don’t seem to remember a large selection.
Outlaw? No, just tax at a dollar a puff.
Bubble gum cigars but do remember they never really caught on except to hand out when babies were born.
We don't.
I haven’t said, “It’s a Free Country” in a coon’s age.
I got one every Wednesday when I went to pick up my periodicals.
Of course, I was 10 years old and my periodicals were comic books.
"Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method, they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and, while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some. . . . Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. . . . (It) does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose. . . ." - John Maynard Keynes, "Economic Consequences of the Peace - 1920"
Is there anyone here who doubts for a second that tobacco industry lobbyists will get their way here? This industry will be banned or regulated out of existence, and both party’s bank accounts will be just a little bit better funded this election cycle.
Yep!
I have mixed feelings on this. My 19 year old came home from college with one and had trouble putting it down. I felt that something is up with these things. Recently, a “vapor” store opened a few miles from my home and I was like WTH?
I guess drugs adapt as laws, regulations and social norms attempt to control them.
Hopefully, it is a fad that my knuckle headed son will move on from. To be so intellectually smart, but so emotionally and socially dumb... it is sad.
I don’t want more government controls and laws, but research and publication of dangers of these things are not a bad thing.
I know “spice” or synthetic marijuana is a really dangerous drug that is hurting young and old people. I would not have known about it, if not for following college football.
I remember bubblegum packaged to look like cigars...pink cigars!
LOL, I didn't think so.
Seriously, I don't think the FDA wants to ban these things.
I’ve been trying to think of one thing, one item the government doesn’t some how have it’s mittens in.
Do you assume that we all trust anything available on a shelf of a store? Plenty of us do not-I don’t use e-cigs, I don’t do drugs, illicit or prescription, and I don’t eat processed, or even most canned food. I’m a responsible adult-I don’t apply, eat, smoke, or drink anything without reading the ingredients and looking up the contents on the net, and I don’t trust or need the FDA to tell me how/what to eat, smoke, drink or wash my dishes in.
And the FDA doesn’t care at all if you are a lab rat-if you don’t believe that, check out the ingredients on the next pre-packaged food item you consume, or the next OTC drug you take for a sneeze. And it is not “for the children”, either...
How about we go back to being responsible for our own kids and our own selves, and hiring companies not connected with government and/or lobbyists to do independent testing on new products? I’m sure there are plenty of testing labs who would appreciate the business-put it into private hands and let them bid on it.
Since when has the tobacco industry won any battle?
Given the political climate re: tobacco over the past few decades, the fact that the tobacco industry still exists today is itself a huge victory for the industry.
Spoken like a good slave. Massa knows best. If you’re scared of e-cigs, don’t buy one. Same logic as guns.
There is not enough time in the day for the average person to inspect and test everything that would need to be inspected.
And I have no interest in growing the food myself.
Who do you propose hire the independent companies? I can't afford that. Or were you suggesting the government spend the money on independent contractors so that whoever is in office can funnel contracts to their bundlers?
Stupid analogy. With a gun there's a very insignificantly small chance you'll shoot yourself, and I'll end up paying SS disability, medicaid and food stamps to support you through my taxes.
But E-cigs like cigarettes are made for one purpose. To shoot yourself with them.
If you insist on being stupid:
Maybe you can't fix stupid, but sometimes you can see it coming and you can marginalize it's impact.
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