Posted on 05/16/2019 2:55:20 AM PDT by Zhang Fei
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge is siding with public health groups suing the Food and Drug Administration to begin reviewing thousands of e-cigarettes on the U.S. market.
The ruling handed down Wednesday in district court states that the agency shirked its legal duty when it postponed reviewing all U.S. vaping products by several years.
The American Academy of Pediatrics, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids and other groups filed the federal lawsuit in Maryland last year. The groups say the lack of FDA oversight has led to an explosion in underage vaping by teenagers, threatening to hook a generation of Americans on nicotine.
“It is now the FDA’s responsibility to take immediate action to protect our kids and require manufacturers to apply to the FDA if they want to keep their products on the market,” the groups said in a statement.
E-cigarettes are nicotine-emitting devices that have grown into a multibillion-dollar industry in the U.S. despite little research on their long-term health effects, including whether they are useful in helping smokers quit cigarettes.
The FDA gained authority to regulate the products in 2016, but it has allowed thousands of products to remain on the market without formal rules or product standards. The agency says that both FDA staff and manufacturers need more time to prepare for regulation.
The public health groups have warned that the lack of oversight could undo decades of anti-tobacco efforts as young people migrate toward newer vaping products.
U.S. Judge Paul Grimm agreed, calling the FDA’s delay “so extreme as to amount to an abdication of its statutory responsibilities.”
FDA spokesman Michael Felberbaum said in an emailed statement that the agency is reviewing the court decision and “will continue to tackle the troubling epidemic of e-cigarette use among kids.” The agency will have the option of appealing
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Then the new cure came about....e-cigarettes...another way to inject nicotine into your system.
So now, people are hooked on cigarettes and more are hooked on e-cigarettes and once again the government comes along with their
"We're here to help.
Same MO as Opioids.
So ridiculous. With cigarettes they pretended to care about “secondhand smoke” and whatnot, here they’re showing that that was never what this all was actually about.
Hmmm... I’d better stock up on supplies; enough for a few years.
If e-cigs and peripherals were taxed the same as cigarettes, the FDA would do an about face and start cheerleading for e-cigs.
It’s the blind leading the deaf, listening to the dumb.
[If e-cigs and peripherals were taxed the same as cigarettes, the FDA would do an about face and start cheerleading for e-cigs.]
What about weed? All the talk about it as though it is s cure for everything. Why go after tobacco and e- cigs? Have you been wondering why there’s a lot of whacked out people around? On the streets and TV? Obviously there’s a lot of marijuana and psychological drugs being consumed. I don’t care if you smoke pot but to push it in the public square is creepy.
e-cigarettes are not cheap
....but marijuana SMOKE is not a problem? Where are the anti smoking Nazis?
[e-cigarettes are not cheap]
https://lotolabs.com/how-much-money-could-you-save-by-switching-to-vaping-a-realistic-approach
Trump’s FDA appointee went on a rampage on all kinds of issues. Scott Gottlieb was part of the Walker campaign and somehow made to agency chief. Anyway, he just quit, maybe at Trump’s request, and the Obama judge mentioned here is trying to strong-arm the FDA into continuing Gottlieb’s crusade against e-cigs.
My son-in-law successfully quit smoking by stepping down through vaping.
Do they actually want more people to keep smoking cigarettes?
The FDA won’t be happy until they regulate the single best smoking cessation device ever invented off the market.
That’s criminal.
L
I actually managed to quit smoking by using e-cigs. For me they were the thing to get me to quit.
I realize not everyone has that plan, but that’s why I turned to them. :-)
(Then I had to be strong to resist the weight gain issues, everything tasted so goood!)
RS
I wife and I switched 8 years ago after forty years of two packs of Marlboros a day. Never looked back, and feel healthy as a horse.
I have a lifetime supply of concentrated liquid nicotine in the freezer and blend my own e-liquids at 10% of the cost of pre-made from vendors.
I suppose you can call me an FDA prepper.
The FDA did a report on e-cigs nearly a decade ago. It found remnants of cleaning chemicals from manufacturing in parts per billion, and parts per million of chemicals found in the ‘juice’ used to create the vapor. What they didn’t find or report on are the over 1000 chemicals found in cigarettes. Nor did they report on the single element the Surgeon General thought so dangerous they put the warning on every pack about tar. The first report didn’t even mention it. And Kaiser Permanente references the report as it tries to sell competing products that are less effective in reducing the smoking habit.
What adults put into their body is their own business.
It’s for the chillren you know..... yet the stupid continues.
In seven days, I’ll be eleven years without smoking. Smoked for 30 years prior.
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