I cannot think of a regulatory provision that would be more favorable to combustible cigarettes than to ban any potential competitor products that are not made from tobacco and do not involve combustion from informing consumers that these products are safer alternatives to smoking. This is literally a huge gift to the combustible cigarette market and therefore, it is devastating to the public's health. It is going to increase disease and death. This is absolutely the opposite of what the FDA should be doing in these regulations.
Take a read of his latest blog post. I'll have to admit that these regulations don't lay a glove on the purveyors of nicotine via Nicorette and Nicoderm, while threatening to shut down nicotine's use through e-cigarettes. However, Nicorette and Nicoderm are minimally useful in assisting smokers to quit, while e-cigarettes are highly efficacious. I therefore see the tobacco industry as the party that has the most dollars to loose from e-cigarettes, and the most motivated to oppose them. I hope so, anyway, since Nicorette and Nicoderm have the image of motherhood and apple pie by contrast to Big Tobacco.
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