The Food and Drug Administration is using it’s power to enforce onerous regulations that will stifle industry growth and devastate small businesses.
More specifically, the FDA is seeking to curb usage of e-cigarette and vapor products through the use of newly-published rules. If the rules are enforced to the letter, as they almost certainly will be, 99% of such products could become prohibited goods.
This is due to something called the Pre-Market Tobacco Applications process. Originating in anti-tobacco legislation passed in 2009, the PMTA has finally been formalized by the FDA and is set to go into effect in two years.
Under this process, businesses interested in producing and selling tobacco products will have to petition the FDA for permission to do so. Unsurprisingly, this entails navigating mountains of red tape and paying millions – yes, millions – of dollars before a single product can hit the market place.
This is hardly a glitch in the process: on the contrary, the whole idea is to make it next to impossible for anybody besides the wealthiest tobacco companies to get into the business.
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No big surprise about the FDA controling our lives once again. Now in saying that, the FDA is also suppose to protect us from harmful products. One thing that the FDA isn’t talking about or telling us, is about a lung disease nicknamed “Popcorn Lung”. Popcorn Lung is caused by using one of over 50 different flavorings used in e-cigarette’s. If you use any of these products, do yourself a favor and read about “Popcorn Lung” and how it physical effects you. One of the better site’s I have found is “hsph.harvard.edu” and also in this article published by the Harvard School of Medicine you will find out how the FDA got involved in controlling the
e-cigarette market.
Government needs to stay out of our business
more tax from tobaco now go figure
Karl Shue
TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT
Last night on the news they said it was hundred times better than cigarettes bet the tobacco companies are getting into the E smoking,
Gotta keep their cancer sticks in production
Smoke plants not chemicals, and stop putting chemicals in my tobacco! The percentage of tax on cigarettes is oppression, and the means its devised is a loophole for double taxation.
Morons
Bureaucrats owned by tobacco companies in self-defense.