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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“Meanwhile, Deep State is all for legalizing weed.”
If the Deep State wanted legal weed, it would been legalized years ago. Instead, they’ve fought tooth and nail against it. You have to ask yourself why it was never legalized federally when Obama and the dems controlled fedgov.
Answer: The Deep State does not want to give up billions in untaxed, underground money and the power that drug laws give to it.
The Big Guy and the democrats. This is just to let EVERYONE know if you don’t pay your patronage you will be destroyed.
Not that I’m a smoker,I’m not but what the hell is the FDA doing?They are ordering that Juuls are taken off of the market because of what?They’re dangerous.
While at the same time they are pushing a known deadly “Vaccine” on the market and they’re allowing it to be injected into 5 month old toddlers.
The FDA Leadership is corrupt and should be ignored like the rest of the Biden administration.
Altria (formerly Philip Morris) owns JUUL.
Somehow your theory about tobacco being responsible for the vaping ban falls rather flat with that little snippet of info...
Wait. The state schools can convince your kids that they are another gender, kids can get body damaging puberty blocking hormones without parent consent. Adolescent girls can have breasts removed and boys get their junk removed all with the FDA’s blessing and consent. But woe unto those that want to vape juul, even though there is no evidence of harm. Insane and evil.
Congress authorized the FDA to regulate tobacco products in 2009. They extended that to synthetic nicotine in 2022. Although most nicotine is tobacco derived, vape makers tried to get around the FDA by using synthetic.
Vape pens = drug delivery device
What are free government crack pipes?
Is Juul the only E-cigarette on the market?
If not, what is the difference between their product and the others?
Perhaps there is one of the other tobacco companies they wish to help and not Altria.
Juul put a target on themselves by 5% nicotine in fruit flavors when all competitors were half or less that much.
A convenience store manager showed me a printout that showed 90% of Juul buyers were under 21. That was several years ago. He also said that young employees stocked up big time on fruit flavors before they were banned.
Teens are moving on to other brands such as Puff Bar. Targeting Juul at this point is even more ridiculous than it was initially.
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Yeah. Just ask Arthur Andersen & Co.
I don’t know where the line is, but Congress had authorized the EPA to regulate the environment also, and the Supreme Court ruled that the authority given wasn’t specific enough, if I understand it correctly (I haven’t read the ruling yet, so maybe I don’t have it right).
Congress probably didn’t intend to ban vaping products when it approved the FDA regulatory authority over synthetic nicotine. If Congress had wanted to ban them, they would have just done so.
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