"Electronic cigarettes attracting ‘smokers’; But FDA says product should be regulated" by Michael Felberbaum, Associated Press | September 2, 2010
RICHMOND — Electronic cigarettes look like the real thing and give him his nicotine fix but do not contain tobacco....
As they become more popular, the battery-powered cigarettes have become the center of a fight over how risky they are compared with traditional smokes, whether they are legal and, if they are, how they should be regulated.
If there is a fight or conflict in the world the MSM will find it -- and if not, they will make one.
E-cigarettes are made of plastic and metal and heat a liquid nicotine solution in a disposable cartridge, creating vapor that the smoker inhales. A tiny light on the tip even glows like a real cigarette....
The Food and Drug Administration and public health groups have sounded the alarm, saying they contain dangerous chemicals and are being marketed to children, and the federal agency has halted shipments of e-cigarettes at ports nationwide.
The FDA, huh?
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Some sellers of e-cigarettes sued the FDA last year after the agency instructed customs officials to refuse entry of shipments into the United States. A federal judge ruled that the FDA cannot stop those shipments, saying the agency had overstepped its authority. The FDA appealed and won a stay of that ruling, pending oral arguments that are set to begin next month.
Look at them!
SO CONCERNED over a LEGAL PRODUCT as our FOOD CHAIN is totally insecure and the POLLUTION SICKENS us all!
Btw, whatever happened to MY FREEDOM to DECIDE FOR MYSELF if I want a smoke?
The FDA claims it has the authority to regulate e-cigarettes as drug-delivery devices, which would require proving — probably through expensive clinical trials — that they are safe and effective as a stop-smoking aid.
E-cigarette sellers would like to see them regulated as a tobacco product, following the same restrictions as traditional cigarettes and tobacco products.
Several states have tried to ban the sale of the products.
Users and distributors say e-cigarettes address both the nicotine addiction and the behavioral aspects of smoking — the holding of the cigarette, the puffing, seeing the smoke come out, and the hand motion — without the more than 4,000 chemicals found in a traditional cigarette.
“When you’re talking about a product that’s essentially Russian roulette, and the alternative is much, much better, you can imagine they’re pretty happy,’’ said Jason Healy, the president of electronic cigarette maker Blu Cigs in Charlotte, N.C. “Up until e-cigs, there was quit or die.’’
First marketed worldwide in 2002 as an alternative to regular cigarettes, e-cigarettes did not become easily available in the United States until late 2006. Now, the industry has grown from the thousands in 2006 to several million worldwide, with an estimated 20,000 to 30,000 new e-smokers every week, according to Healy.
A starter kit, including flavor cartridges, costs about $60. Additional cartridges, equivalent to about 150 cigarettes, are about $25. The cartridges include flavor and different levels of nicotine, or no nicotine at all.
Still, the FDA has said its tests found the liquid in electronic cigarettes contains substances known to be toxic to humans — besides nicotine, which is itself toxic in large doses — as well as carcinogens that occur naturally in the tobacco in cigarettes.
As if the FDA actually gave a shit!!!!!
But the level of those carcinogens was comparable to those found in nicotine replacement therapy like gum and patches, because the nicotine in all of the products is extracted from tobacco, said Dr. Michael Siegel, a professor at the Boston University School of Public Health.
In other word, the FDA is full of s***!!
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That's what happens when you don't (wheeze) smoke, cough, cough!!
You know, the cigarette tasted just like my newspaper.
