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U.S. to Crack Down on Tobacco, Electronic Cigarettes
NBC News and the Providence Journal report that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has published a rule which will classify cigars, chewing tobacco and nicotine-containing fluid for electronic cigarettes as tobacco products. Under the rule, sale of those items to people under 18 years of age is to be prohibited. The electronic parts of electronic cigarettes are not covered by the rule. According to NBC News, the rule "will be open for public comment before it becomes final." The FDA regulates cigarettes and loose tobacco for smoking.
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Courts in EU, India Uphold Anti-tobacco Laws
On 4 May the European Court of Justice turned down challenges to the 2014 revision of the Tobacco Products Directive. The law entails enlargement of warnings, prohibition of menthol cigarettes, prohibition of packages holding fewer than 20 cigarettes, restrictions on advertising of electronic cigarettes, and limits on the nicotine content of fluid for electronic cigarettes. It enables EU countries to require plain packaging. The court said the regulations were necessary to comply with the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.
Also on 4 May, India's Supreme Court declined to further delay the implementation of a requirement for larger warning messages on cigarette packages. Several cigarette manufacturers including ITC Ltd. have shut down their factories. The chairman of ITC decried the requirement, saying:
Behind this is vested interests... where money is given into the hands of so-called NGOs, who are being influenced to kill local brands knowing fully well that smuggled cigarettes of some other industry are going to be used here.
Golden Tobacco in Gujarat has been following the rule, which had originally been intended to take effect 1 April 2016, "from April 2015 [sic]."
coverage:
- Irish Times (EU)
- Belfast Telegraph (EU)
- Live Mint (statement from ITC chairman)
- Voice of America (government-sponsored; covers India)
- Nikkei Asian Review (shut-downs in India)
- Reuters (India)
- Christian Science Monitor (both EU and India)
- The Wall Street Journal (paywalled; about shut-downs in India; predates ruling)
- Reuters (about shut-downs in India; predates ruling)
- The Wall Street Journal (paywalled; about EU)
- Quartz India (India, Golden Tobacco)
- The New York Times (EU, India)
further information:
- 2014 Tobacco Products Directive (PDF)
- press release from cigarette manufacturer JTI regarding EU ruling
(Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Saturday May 07 2016, @05:05PM
You don't, but how many millions of people do?
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/04/16/400144741/use-of-e-cigarettes-triples-among-u-s-teens [npr.org]
Surveys are showing that teens are vaping, but that teen smoking has dropped. I expect they can get their vaping supplies from older kids/adults, even more easily than alcohol. I bet some parents even enable the habit since it is a lot more discreet and less dangerous than drinking, or just easier to siphon off some e-liquid. I'm more than willing to ignore this "problem", but don't be surprised if some form of vaping yields a cancer risk in future studies.
Otherwise, I agree with your post. A legal purple drank with melatonin in it? Clever.
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(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Sunday May 08 2016, @01:15PM
Teens drink too, do we blame the beer? No we blame the ones giving it to them and rightly so. If an adult buys porn and gives it to their kid, blame the porn industry? Nope we blame the bad parents.
If you want to see what its really about look up "FDA Ecig 2007 rule" and get ready to be gobsmacked at just how bought and paid for the FDA has become as congress is scrambling to STOP the FDA from handing the ENTIRE ecig business to RJ Reynolds and company. What is the 2007 rule? It would mean that no ecig product which wasn't on the market by 2007 could be sold which would mean the ONLY ecigs that could be sold would be "cigalikes", aka the cheap weak battery POS that tastes like you are smoking an old tire and which doesn't do shit to help smokers quit. Its also one of the most expensive makes you can buy at around $10 for a unit that if you are REALLY lucky lasts about 3 hours, compared to the tank and battery units where the batteries can last for years (I have several reaching the 2 year mark, work just fine), the coils are cheap (A $2 coil lasts around 3 weeks) and for enough juice a heavy smoker like me cannot run out for an entire month? $20.
BTW you wanna make a little guess as to whom owns every.single.one. of the ecigs that can be sold under the 2007 rule? If you said RJ Reynolds and friends? Then you are correct and now know just what bullshit the FDA has become. Study after study shows smoking going down thanks to ecigs, study after study show they are much MUCH safer than ecigs, with the British study recently released showing them 95% safer than cigarettes which is why British doctors are now prescribing ecigs to smokers, what does the FDA want to do? Hey lets go back to giving smokers no choice but big tobacco, I'm sure that will help people quit smoking...what a fucking scam and a perfect example of how rotten and corrupted our systems have become. Can you say "regulatory capture" boys and girls? I think you can.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.