E-cigarette sparks attention as FDA crackdown looms

VapeAtron · 03-10-2009, 01:31 PM

E-cigarette sparks attention as FDA crackdown looms
San Jose Mercury News, USA
What Kruberg saw was a kiosk salesman puffing away on an electronic cigarette, a new product that Jose Canseco, the steroid-tainted baseball slugger turned e-cigarette pitchman, predicts will "revolutionize the industry of smoking. ...

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xMarlboroMan · 03-10-2009, 03:23 PM

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"It is illegal to sell or market them, and the FDA is looking into this," said Rita Chappelle, an agency spokeswoman.

My response... since when? What a bunch of crap.

Darth Vaper · 03-10-2009, 03:36 PM

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"I understand why people use the nicotine replacement aids," said Serena Chen, regional tobacco policy director of the American Lung Association in California. "But I don't understand why people want to pretend that they're smoking."

Chen believes that many ex-smokers will conclude that the e-cigarette is harmless and be lured back into the smoking trap.

"If you had a serial killer who liked to stab people, would you give him a rubber knife?" Chen asked. "This just boggles the mind."

This has to be the most strained metaphor I've ever read. Smokers are comparable to serial killers??? And in response to her hypothetical, YES, I would have no problem giving a rubber knife to a serial killer. . . because then he couldn't kill anyone! Is she arguing that rubber knives are a 'gateway weapon' to a real knife?

VapeAtron · 03-10-2009, 03:41 PM

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"I understand why people use the nicotine replacement aids," said Serena Chen, regional tobacco policy director of the American Lung Association in California. "But I don't understand why people want to pretend that they're smoking."

Because I like smoking, I just dont like dying from it.

staresm · 03-11-2009, 08:23 AM

I like the little dopamine rush from inhaled nicotine. Does that make me a bad person??

Margaret

ecigshop · 03-11-2009, 12:56 PM

has anybody heard of any imported ecigs being stopped & returned by customs under for reason?

jamie · 03-12-2009, 12:39 AM

Absolutely, that's going on right now in the US. So far it seems to be due to labeling/marketing. Possibly also some due to nicotine presence but that's unclear.