Quora is a community for sharing information through questions and answers. Several FORCES folks are active there, and you can see some excellent answers to the question of how folks in the vaping community see the FDA’s recent ruling on e-cigs.<br type="_moz" />
"There is no question that a puff on an e-cigarette is less dangerous than a puff on a conventional cigarette," said Stanton Glantz, a professor of medicine and the director of the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education at the University of California, San Francisco. <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">(Yes, he actually said that.)</span><br />
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However, this doesn’t mean the devices always represent a safer step down from cigarettes. In fact, one of the most dangerous things about e-cigarettes is that they may keep people smoking conventional cigarettes longer, rather than encourage them to attempt to quit, he said". <br />
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He has nothing to back up his statement but his own hot air but when has that ever stopped him?<br />
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By the way he has a PhD, he is not a MD, nor a Epidemologist. He usually passes himself as a MD.<br type="_moz" />
On the November 8th election California will have a proposition to raise a pack of cigarettes by $2.00 a pack. The tax increase would also effect vapors.<br />
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When will the ASH and all the other health nannies get the message "people do not like to be told what to do by the government". ASH is whinning that the Tobacco Companies are still making profits. Boohoo!<br type="_moz" />
"If you care about vaping’s implications for public health, it is the worst of times and also the best of times– it just depends which side of the Atlantic you live on".<br />
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America is on the wrong side of the pond.<br type="_moz" />
We couldn’t say it any better so please read the article. <br />
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FDA has literally killed the e-cigarette market, so stock up now.<br type="_moz" />
The FDA new regulations on E-cigarettes has virtually ended the market with the exception of the two brands of e-cigarettes owned by the Tobacco Companies. Special Interest has won again, not the American people.<br />
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Smokers should be encouraged to use e-cigarettes as they are much safer than smoking tobacco, the Royal College of Physicians has recommended.<br />
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A report by its Tobacco Advisory Group has concluded that e-cigarettes are likely to benefit public health in the UK, and that smokers can be reassured about using them.<br type="_moz" />
Public health officials in the United States generally regard e-cigarettes as a new pathway to addiction, unlike those in Great Britain, who look at them as a safer way to feed a nicotine habit or to stop smoking tobacco entirely.<br />
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Now, seven top tobacco control experts from around the world are cautioning the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to keep an open mind on the topic.<br />
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"We believe that the discussion to date has been slanted against e-cigarettes, which is unfortunate, because the big picture tells us that these products appear to be used mostly by people who aready are or who are likely to become cigarette smokers," said David T. Levy, PhD, a professor in the department of oncology at the Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center in Washington, D.C.<br />
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Will the FDA pay attention, we hope so.<br type="_moz" />
The 2017 Agriculture Appropriations Bill may not seem like a stirring piece of legislation to most, but it raised quite a few eyebrows last week as it passed through a House subcommittee with a key amendment—one that aims to spare the vast majority of electronic cigarettes from impending federal regulations.<br />
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The bipartisan effort to protect the burgeoning e-cig market is just the latest in a long-smoldering debate reignited by the Food and Drug Administration’s plans this year to begin regulating the new devices as it does traditional tobacco products. <br type="_moz" />