New FDA Rules Effectively Ban 99% of E-Cigarettes

While much of the outrage over the PMTA process is directed, albeit understandably, at the FDA’s naked attempt to shake down tobacco companies, a significant amount of people are upset that the agency is treating products like vape pens as posing an equal amount of risk as traditional tobacco products, in spite of a lack of scientific evidence to indicate such at this point:

‘Today’s action by the FDA will do nothing to improve our nations’ public health objectives. To the contrary, today’s action will yank responsibly manufactured vapor products from the hands of adult smokers and replace them with the tobacco cigarettes they had been trying to give up.’

The VTA argue the FDA’s rules will kill almost a decade of innovation in the e-cigarette space and put thousands of small and mid-size businesses out of businesses to the benefit of major tobacco companies.

‘If, in the name of public health, federal regulations inhibit much-needed innovation in the e-cigarette market, public health would actually suffer, as fewer adult smokers would be likely to switch from smoking,’ said the National Center for Public Policy Research’s director of Risk Analysis, Jeff Stier.

‘One only needs to look at the rapid innovation coming from the vaping industry to see how devastating this rule will be,’ Jared Meyer, Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, told The Daily Caller News Foundation in an emailed statement.

‘While large tobacco companies will likely be able to absorb these costs, countless small manufacturers will be put out of business–leading to a less dynamic market. Without continued innovation, it will be harder from cigarette smokers to kick their deadly habit by taking up a much less harmful form of nicotine consumption,’ Meyer added.”

Source: The Libertarian Republic