FDA considering ban on flavored e-cigarettes

[Eugene]

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Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is considering a ban on flavored e-cigarettes in response to an “epidemic” of young people using e-cigarettes, the agency’s leader said on Wednesday.

In a speech at FDA headquarters, Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said the agency would also revisit its compliance policy that extended the dates for manufacturers of flavored e-cigarettes to submit applications for premarket authorization.

“We see clear signs that youth use of electronic cigarettes has reached an epidemic proportion,” Gottlieb said.

Gottlieb announced a number of steps the agency planned to take as part of a broader crackdown on the sale and marketing of e-cigarettes to kids. The agency issued 12 warning letters to companies that it says have deceptive marketing labels on e-liquids. “We cannot allow a whole new generation to become addicted to nicotine,” he said.

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[SoCalNative]

1. Oh FFS

Please stop trying to regulate every last thing while letting really bad things get a pass because you're in a corporation's back pocket.

FWIW, nicotine is not the problem. It's all of the other chemicals in both real and e-cigarettes that are the issue.

[PennyK]

2. I've been dreading something like this.

I've written letters, signed petitions.
I quit cigarettes and switched to vaping four years ago. I use mint and fruit flavors, and I do NOT wish to start using tobacco flavors. Oh, and I'm turning 68 this year. It's not a kid thing. If it were, there wouldn't be "birthday-cake" flavored vodka.

[NurseJackie]

4. Quitting is hard! I totally understand.

[jayfish]

9. I quit a 25+ year...

1.5 pack a day+ snuff habit seven years ago via vaping. It really was a miracle as I had tried everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, to quit prior to vaping. If you are using simple flavors it might behoove you to go DIY. It's much cheaper than retail.

[Jedi Guy]

14. Ditto!

Smoked for 17 years and was never able to shake it until I started vaping. Been smoke-free almost two years now.

They're discussing the same kinds of crackdowns here in Canada, too. My brother in law owns a very successful vape shop, and I'd hate to see all his hard work get undone because of rash legislation pushed from behind the scenes by the tobacco companies.

They'll have my Watermelon Sour and Ross Sauce when they can pry it from my non-nicotine-stained fingers.

[Major Nikon]

3. Classic "think of the children" fail

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_of_the_children

[jayfish]

5. Yup, It's About the Kids Alright.

Tobacco stocks rally as FDA considers banning all flavored e-cigarettes

Tobacco company shares rose in active Wednesday morning trade after the Food and Drug Administration chief said that the agency might ban all flavored e-cigarettes due to their popularity among teenagers, which he said had reached "an epidemic proportion." British American Tobacco BATS, +5.87% shares rose 6.3% in extremely heavy Wednesday trade, Altria Group Inc. MO, +6.94% shares rose 7% in extremely active trade and Philip Morris International Inc. PM, +3.89% stock rose nearly 5% in heavy trade.

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Measurements of electronic cigarette-generated particles for the evaluation of lung cancer risk of active and passive users

The use of electronic cigarettes as an alternative to traditional cigarettes, in the described conditions and considering typical habits for Italian smokers, reduces the risk to get lung cancer from about 4×10?1 to about 7×10?6 (40,000 additional cases versus 0.7 additional cases over a population of 100,000). The exposure to second-hand aerosol, instead, determines a negligible increment of lung cancer cases (0.001–0.003 new cases over a population of 100 000). Higher risks are associated to ECs with nicotine due to the presence of NNN and NNK. In particular, NNK, As and Cd are the main contributors to the total ELCR for ECs with nicotine, while for ECs without nicotine, the main contributor is Cd.

Quit Methods Used by American Smokers, 2013–2014

Use of e-cigarettes was the only method with higher odds of users being a former smoker than unaided attempts (OR = 1.42, 95% CI 1.12–1.81). Current use of e-cigarettes among current (34%) and former (54%) smokers was significantly higher than current use of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT). Conclusions: In 2013–2014 e-cigarettes were used by American adult smokers as quit-smoking aids more frequently than NRT products or prescription drugs.

[ResistantAmerican17]

6. Of course we can't have em "hooked on nicotine"...

Not when your corporate puppet masters can make billions hooking them on Opioids and adderall.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

7. Being in the vicinity of someone's fucking scented vape gives me an instant sore throat.

Prolonged exposure always gives me a full blown sinus infection.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

11. It's the truth. Scented vape instantly irritates my throat and sinuses.

It STINKS. Even tobacco smoke, which also stinks and which I also hate, doesn't do that.

[Leith]

8. Here Are Some Vodka Flavors

glazed donut
maple syrup
raspberry, peach, cherry, apple, banana, and many, many more
root beer float
salted caramel
cake
corndog (yeah, it really is there in google images)
cotton candy

That's just some of them. Not one vodka website that I checked demanded that I promise to be 21. Every vape site I have ever seen (and it's most of them in Clark County, NV) won't let the viewer enter without it.

This is nothing more than tobacco companies fighting dirty. I expected more from DUers who are for it.

A question for those who claim that being near vaping makes them sick: vaping is not allowed anywhere that smoking isn't. Are you also sickened by asthma inhalers? The medium is the same (vegetable glycerin).

[PSPS]

12. Those "campaign contributions" by tobacco companies pay big dividends!

[Trenzalore]

13. I quit smoking 8 months ago

Haven't had a cigarette in 8 months. Vaping has helped. Looks like it is time to stock up on Vape Juice bundle packages.

Also teenagers are going to smoke and drink. It is what teenagers do. This is just going to push them back to cigarettes which might be the intent.