FDA Issues Stiff Warning to E-Cig Seller who put Viagra in Vape Liquid:
The US Food and Drug Administration made clear on Thursday, October 11, that it has a major bone to pick with an electronic-cigarette vendor that illegally pumped prescription erectile dysfunction drugs into unapproved e-liquid products intended for vaping.
The cocky company, HelloCig Electronic Technology Co. Ltd, even advertised the vape liquids with labels and images using drug brand names. For instance, it sold one of the vaping liquids as "E-Cialis HelloCig E-Liquid" alongside an image of a bottle and tablets of Eli Lilly's erectile dysfunction drug Cialis. It also sold a product with the brand of an anti-obesity drug that had been pulled from the market in Europe for causing psychiatric disorders. The e-liquid really contained the erectile dysfunction drug in Viagra, the FDA found.
[...] The throbbing mad agency issued a stiff warning and firmly threatened "civil money penalties, criminal prosecution, seizure, and/or injunction" if HelloCig didn't pull its products out of the market immediately. The company has 15 days to respond.
FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb blasted the company in a statement, saying:
"There are no e-liquid products approved to contain prescription drugs or any other medications that require a doctor's supervision. Prescription drugs are carefully evaluated and labeled to reflect the risks of the medications and their potential interactions with other medicines, and vaping active drug ingredients is an ineffective route of delivery and can be dangerous. There are no e-liquids that contain prescription drugs that have been proven safe or effective through this route of administration."
The jokes almost write themselves.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by aristarchus on Saturday October 13 2018, @09:54AM (8 children)
So, it has come to this! [xkcd.com]
You all know, as I am well aware, that we could have had a pertinent and salient aristarchus submission, instead of this bad excuse for a pun? Not that puns are bad, but his one is. Oh, the huge manatee, in the wake of Hurricane Michael. Could not the Throbbing Member Buzzard control himself, at least until he is installed on, or into, the Supreme Court? Decorum matters, my fellow Soylentils.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Saturday October 13 2018, @12:59PM (6 children)
"Pert" and "Sally" are words that go together - but neither goes with "Aristarchus". For pertinent and salient submissions, look elsewhere.
Hasn't the alt-right eaten your liver yet, Ari? How do you fend them off? By sleeping with a night light on?
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by aristarchus on Saturday October 13 2018, @06:18PM (5 children)
Ah, Now I get it! You are confusing me with the Titan Prometheus! And the Alt-right with a Buzzard, strangely enough, since that is what started the whole thing, with the #Freearistarchus!!!
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday October 13 2018, @06:25PM (4 children)
Oh, nothing so grand. Dr. Lector hasn't been around, inquiring about fava beans and some nice chianti?
(Score: -1) by fakefuck39 on Saturday October 13 2018, @10:42PM (3 children)
a conversation between two autistic people who have taken their meds today. is it supposed to be funny somehow? nope. just being off and weird for its own sake.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday October 14 2018, @04:10AM (1 child)
Oh, please. Go watch a movie. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107050/ [imdb.com] And, if you need help figuring things out, Ari is the homely dude with the big nose - I'm the handsome guy who gets the woman.
(Score: -1) by fakefuck39 on Thursday October 18 2018, @12:12AM
not interested in some loser's link or taste in movies. i just enjoy knowing your life is really shitty by my standards. i also know for a fact you are not hadsome, nor socially apt. the way you say "I'm the handsome guy who gets the woman" tells me everything i need to know about you.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 14 2018, @08:12AM
From the looks of this they need more meds. I prescribe alcohol.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by khallow on Saturday October 13 2018, @04:39PM
If you only get one pun out of this, then you're stroking the material wrong. It's just not that hard.
We could have had such, years ago. But that's not what you've been submitting.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 13 2018, @10:32AM (1 child)
Clearly they need to bone up on their quality control to avoid these hard charges. Looks like their going to take one on the chin for this.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 13 2018, @03:15PM
"Who got hit in the chin with more balls: Yogi Berra or Rock Hudson?"
(Score: 2) by chewbacon on Saturday October 13 2018, @12:24PM
At my age, I vape before and smoke after.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by VLM on Saturday October 13 2018, @12:47PM (3 children)
There's so much insanity being spread around in the vape-subculture on both the mfgr and enforcement side that I'm pretty sure the big tobacco cigs companies must be funding it. You don't get that much crazy for free.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 13 2018, @02:19PM
I am convinced if you can grind it up and smoke it someone will
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rerj92ZPuV4 [youtube.com]
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday October 13 2018, @04:42PM (1 child)
They just want that steady revenue stream. After all, where's the crazy in regular cigarettes? It's nowhere near Big Tobacco who's been churning out much the same product for the past 50 years.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by black6host on Saturday October 13 2018, @09:44PM
It took the tobacco companies a while to figure out that vaping was going to become a thing. In the meantime an active industry of small players entered the market and succeeded. Big tobacco took notice and said, no no no, and are trying to wrestle as much back as they can. I remember meeting a rep from the makers of Camel cigarettes at a local vape shop a couple of years ago. He didn't have much of a clue and he was interested in learning the market. But, by then, a lot of players had made names for themselves.
Most hardcore vapers go for the expensive gear as opposed to the prepackaged crap you find in convenience stores. It's cheaper and two years ago there were many options available (I've been away from the vaping scene for a few years now so I don't know what the current climate is like.)
I'm glad I'm out of that whole tobacco/nicotine mess. I have plenty of other things to waste my money on that won't kill me. I did quit smoking by turning to vaping. Then, I quit vaping and haven't touched either since. It's been 5 years since I've smoked a cigarette. I don't think I could have done it without vaping so I am biased, to be sure.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 14 2018, @09:23AM
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3182567/You-drunk-eyes-place-Inside-Britain-s-bizarre-bar-air-saturated-alcohol.html [dailymail.co.uk]