Posted on 07/01/2022 8:28:01 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
There’s something terrifying about a government so powerful that it can shut down your business overnight without even bothering to offer substantive arguments. Yet that’s what Food and Drug Administration bureaucrats just did to the e-cigarette company Juul. While Juul got a stay of execution from a court, the company is one of the many victims of the FDA’s counterproductive war on nicotine. Most of the other victims will be cigarette smokers.
I have followed the issue for several years and there is no doubt in my mind that Juul is an effective way to transition away from smoking into alternative, safer sources of nicotine. Vaping doesn’t end nicotine consumption, but it’s still a real step toward a world without cigarettes. In fact, it is now proven that e-cigarettes are more effective than traditional, FDA-approved nicotine-replacement therapies at getting smokers to quit entirely.
In its 125,000-page application to the FDA, Juul reminded the agency of more than 110 studies showing the benefits of e-cigarettes over traditional nicotine consumption. The company has also been a good team player, jumping through all the hoops thrown at it by the anti-vaping brigades. As the Reason Foundation’s Guy Bentley reminds us in the Daily News, “Juul complied with nearly every request made by critics including pulling its original marketing campaigns in 2016, voluntarily removing all of its non-tobacco and menthol flavors from the market in 2019, and supporting an increase in the tobacco age from 18 to 21.”
And yet the FDA has ordered all Juul e-cigarette products off the market even though its own decision features this remarkable admission: “To date, the FDA has not received clinical information to suggest an immediate hazard associated with the use of the JUUL device or JUULpods.” In other words, neither Juul’s effectiveness in turning smokers away from more dangerous...
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The left want to,ban them because “they are bad for kids” but then scream like lunatics when the right ban abortions because they are bad for kids”
Juul’s competitors who bribed some democrats, presumably.
The principle to apply here is simple. It’s none of the government’s business.
just like pushing how terrible liquor is helped the weed industry....
just follow the money....
Who? Some other manufacturer of e-cigs or...the tobacco companies.
How can they kill one company but leave their competitors in business?
Meanwhile, Deep State is all for legalizing weed.
Okaaaaay...
This is from BI, but it may still explain a lot.
https://www.businessinsider.com/juul-timeline-from-startup-to-tobacco-company-challenges-bans-2019-9
Check out the Pritzker family involvement before the company was sold to Altria...
Doesn’t this run afoul of yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling? Congress would have to pass this as a law, rather than letting unelected bureaucrats issue an edict.
In the late 60s the demoncrats lost the electoral lock on the southern states and thus their major contributor base from predominantly southern industries, oil and tobacco. Unsurprisingly, they have been at war with those businesses ever since!
They lie about their concern for children’s safety over tobacco use. They lie about everything!
Vaping is a drug delivery system.
Med stuff.
To be regulated by States.
Like alcohol, weed and other fun stuff.
someone mentioned that the juul ban was to profit tobacco companies- this may have been done to get support by ‘big tobacco’ again- so basically the left smear and attack ‘big tobacco’ (and others like oil), then turn around and try to win back support by attacking their competitors now that the damage has been done by the attacks on tobacco already-
That is the real question. Juul has 75% of the marketplace because they early into the game, make a well liked product, were good at marketing and product placement. Just about every convenient store has Juul but many only carry Juul and no other options.
So the real answer is, Juul has been very successful and the Left likes to punish success.
The tobacco companies?
Juul get it’s nicotine from tobacco. Or so I’ve been told.
True- the comment about big tobacco wanting the ruling might not be right- it’s just weird that it has been banned when there isn’t any solid evidence of harm- cigarettes have a whole bunch of nasty junk in them- the eciggs don’t really-
[[So the real answer is, Juul has been very successful and the Left likes to punish success]]
True- its astonishing that we have 2 ‘viable parties’ in the nation- one that absolutely hates everyone, hates success (remember obama said “You didn’t build that”), hates our values- and somehow still wins elections even when they don’t cheat- (or get caught i should say i guess)
one [party is for progress- one is for destruction of all the progress we have made- their disdain for America’s greatness and advances is unreal-
A judge put the kabosh on this earlier this week.
Go see they didn’t complain the whole process will get there, they needed to make a hefty donation to the Democratic Party and then it would’ve sailed right through the FDA. I guess the extorted money from the tobacco companies is getting a little stale but it still seems to be buying them some mileage
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