FDA Wants To Regulate Vapor! Stay Away FDA!

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FDA wants to expand its authority and regulate e-cigarettes!

Here is the official announcement from the FDA released 4/24/2014. The proposed rules are available for  a 75 day public comment period. I hope many smokers will tell the FDA to mind their own business and leave consumers alone.

Excerpts From The Official Announcement

“"This proposed rule is the latest step in our efforts to make the next generation tobacco-free," said HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.

Consistent with currently regulated tobacco products, under the proposed rule, makers of newly deemed tobacco products would, among other requirements:

Register with the FDA and report product and ingredient listings;

Only market new tobacco products after FDA review;

Only make direct and implied claims of reduced risk if the FDA confirms that scientific evidence supports the claim and that marketing the product will benefit public health as a whole; and

Not distribute free samples.

In addition, under the proposed rule, the following provisions would apply to newly “deemed” tobacco products:

Minimum age and identification restrictions to prevent sales to underage youth;

Requirements to include health warnings; and

Prohibition of vending machine sales, unless in a facility that never admits youth.

“Tobacco remains the leading cause of death and disease in this country. This is an important moment for consumer protection and a significant proposal that if finalized as written would bring FDA oversight to many new tobacco products,” said FDA Commissioner Margaret A. Hamburg, M.D. “Science-based product regulation is a powerful form of consumer protection that can help reduce the public health burden of tobacco use on the American public, including youth.””

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This is unconstitutional baloney that this big government agency is uttering!

We do not want this oversight by FDA!

This is Soviet style tyranny!

Do these highly paid and highly educated FDA officials confuse tobacco and nicotine! Is this willful fooling of We The People?

We Do Not Need Government Nannies!

We The People should ask the FDA to stay way out of this. Other than to prohibit children from buying this stuff the only other thing for the FDA  to do is to monitor, research, and publish reports on the content of vaporware. Let the consumers decide!

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