FDA says -- Juul Illegally Claimed That Its Products Were Safer than Cigarettes.

[allisolm]

And another death. 40 yr-old man in California.

A 7th person has died from vaping-related causes. The CDC is stepping up its probe of e-cigarette illnesses

A California man has become the seventh person to die from a vaping-related illness in the United States as the nation's leading health agency activates emergency operations to better investigate the outbreak of lung injuries associated with e-cigarettes.

www.cnn.com

 

[Viper1j]

According to Trump, the FDA is going to ban the sales of all flavored ecigs in about 2 weeks.

Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azaran announced that newly proposed enforcement policy would require flavored e-cigarette companies to take their products off the market.

"It'll take several weeks for us to put out the final guidance that will announce all the parameters around the enforcement policy, and then there will likely be about a 30-day delay to effective date, as is customary," Azar said. But "at that point all flavored e-cigarettes other than tobacco flavor would have to be removed from the market."

Trump administration moves to ban flavored e-cigarettes

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the US Food and Drug Administration would be putting out "some very strong recommendations" regarding the use of flavored e-cigarettes in "a couple of weeks."

www.cnn.com

It will take them off the shelves, but not off the market. Before I switched to e-cigs, I could still buy a carton of cigarettes for 11.00. That's 1.10 a pack. I ordered them online, and they arrived in the mail... FROM INDIA. They went from the US to India, and back to the US, and I actually saved 4.00 a pack. WTF?

The only difference was the wording on the pack.The addition of the word, "International". That's going to be the only difference for e-liquids too.

 

[Brainonska511]

I ordered them online, and they arrived in the mail... FROM INDIA. They went from the US to India, and back to the US, and I actually saved 4.00 a pack. WTF?

Probably because they're illegally avoiding tobacco excise taxes that get applied when you buy them from local areas.

 

[Luna1968]

this says it all

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Update of sorts

Juul to Pay $87 Million to States Over Vaping Cases and Could Pay Even More

Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced Wednesday the vaping giant will dole out $22.5 million to the state over the course of four years.

 

[Viper1j]

Update of sorts

Juul to Pay $87 Million to States Over Vaping Cases and Could Pay Even More

Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced Wednesday the vaping giant will dole out $22.5 million to the state over the course of four years.

I wonder how many people can sue Johnny Walker for their divorce?

 

[hal2kilo]

Slow, is that you?

The media beat on Tobacco for at least 15 years. We went from every office being a smoking hole to you can't even smoke on property. Completely smoke free aircraft and restaurants. Driving the cost of smokes through the roof. Etc.

I routinely look at hard copy documents from the 1950s and 60s all the time, and they still smell like smoke 60 years later. Meanwhile, you can be fired if you are caught smoking, dipping or vaping on property today.

Getting smokers out of the office was one of the best things that ever happened in a work place. Just so weird to me that you had to accept someone burning some weed somewhat constantly sitting next to someone who is not, became an acceptable social behavior.