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FDA to Ban Electronic Cigarettes
Bill Godshall of Smokefree Pennsylvania reports in a mass email message that the Food and Drug Administration plans to proceed with a ban on electronic cigarettes, devices that deliver nicotine vapor without tobacco or combustion products. Godshall reproduces the following message from Heather Zawalick of the FDA's Office of Legislation, which says the agency will announce enforcement actions against the three largest e-cigarette distributors on Tuesday:
Subject/Headline: FDA Takes Enforcement Action on Electronic Smoking Products
Planned Release Date: May 5
Driving Event: Compliance action
Rollout Plan: Extensive rollout planned including press conference at HHS, press release, fact sheet, video for upload to YouTube, podcast, consumer article, consumer Q &A, key message points, internal media Q & A, Op-Ed, photos of products for posting on Internet.
Other background, hidden factors: Action involves three largest distributors. One of the distributors has just sued FDA seeking a restraining order to prevent us from holding their product at the border.
There is keen interest in this subject. E-cigarette kiosks are all over town, including Montgomery Mall. They're being advertised as a safer alternative to cigarettes. Our concern is that this might introduce nonusers to nicotine use. This is a drug delivery device. The content of the products have not been analyzed by FDA. To be sold, they would have to be approved by the agency.
Our concern is that this might introduce nonusers to nicotine use. And what if it did? Separated from the dangers of smoking, nicotine use is not a big health concern. The FDA itself has approved various nicotine replacement products (gum, patches, even an inhaler), some of them for over-the-counter sale, even though they theoretically might "introduce nonusers to nicotine use." That possibility is an incredibly lame justification for preventing smokers from switching to a product that eliminates virtually all the risks associated with standard cigarettes.
In an open letter to Zawalick, Joel Nitzkin of the American Association of Public Health Physicians says the pending FDA ban seems to be "based entirely on the undocumented assumption that electronic cigarettes may have the potential to attract additional teenagers to nicotine use and addiction." That concern seems to be fanciful: Godshall says "there is no evidence that e-cigarette products have been marketed to youth, nor is there evidence of youth use of e-cigarette products (most of which cost more than $100)." In any case, Nitzkin notes, the government can impose age restrictions without stopping "current adult smokers who are unwilling or unable to quit" from enjoying "the health benefits this product can offer." By Nitzkin's reckoning, based on the available research, smokeless nicotine products "promise a risk of illness and death well under 1% of the risk posed by cigarettes."
In his own letter to Zawalick, Godshall argues that "denying 45 million cigarette smokers access to exponentially less hazardous smokefree nicotine alternatives would result in millions of preventable deaths among smokers, millions of nonsmokers continuing to be exposed to tobacco smoke pollution, and tens of thousands of e-cigarettes users reverting back to smoking cigarettes." He adds that "it is absurd for the FDA to even contemplate protecting the deadliest nicotine products (cigarettes) from market competition by the least hazardous nicotine products."
More on the e-cigarette controversy here and here. E-cigarette testimonials here and here. A report on testing of the Ruyan e-cigarette here (PDF).
|5.1.09 @ 4:57PM|#
If you thought the anti-smoking zealots were actually concerned
about other people's health, there's all the evidence you need that
they are merely 20th - 21st century puritans.
I'm gonna go put some nicotine into my bloodstrean now.
Fists of Furry|5.1.09 @ 4:58PM|#
"The FDA itself has approved various nicotine replacement
products (gum, patches, even an inhaler)"
I love the character played by Gwenyth Peltrow who explains that
she has taken up smoking in order to break he nicotine gum
addiction. Verry funny.
|5.1.09 @ 5:18PM|#
Welcome to the U.S.S.A - the United Soviet States of
America!
I do not need someone to tell me that I cannot do something because
it is bad for my health! I do not need someone to control my life
telling me what I can or can not do!
I WANT MY FREEDOM BACK! REVOLUTION IS INEVITABLE!
|5.1.09 @ 5:53PM|#
Let's follow the money, are the cigarette companies bribing the appropriate congressmen and/or FDA bureaucrat to limit competition?
|5.1.09 @ 5:58PM|#
So the organization that has approved a bunch of penis pumps says that people can't use a safer alternative to cigarettes?
|5.1.09 @ 6:09PM|#
Senator Lautenberg is the first person to tell the FDA to ban
e-cigs. He has received money from
Pharmaceuticals/Health Products, amount =$128,250
Data found here:
http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/industries.php?cycle=2008&cid=N00000659
The FDA is banning them for our safety my ASS! Throw these crooks
in Prison! Selling our health down the river for their own
financial gain! That sounds like manslaughter to me!
Book'em Danno!
|5.1.09 @ 6:09PM|#
F*&K the FDA they have countless times approved items then
banned them .. and the process seems to repeat itself. They have
ties to allow harmful products that kill people to be OK but "
safer" products deemed as unsafe WTF is that!?
This is America not China, or Africa or any other country where you
are told what u can ingest or inhale. This is nothing more then the
FDA gaining money and population control... If they wanted us to
really be better off they would quit there jobs and let people live
how they want and do what they want in a peaceful matter.. this is
nothing more then letting tobacco companies and corrupt higher
ups.. have time to find a way to "stick it to us" so they can reap
the rewards, and once again steal the American dream
Blade2984|5.1.09 @ 6:18PM|#
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/keep-life-saving-electronic-cigarettes-ava
Blade29845|5.1.09 @ 6:23PM|#
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/keep-life-saving-electronic-cigarettes-ava
Blade298456|5.1.09 @ 6:24PM|#
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/keep-life-saving-electronic-cigarettes-ava
|5.1.09 @ 7:04PM|#
The FDA dosn't have control of tobacco products yet. Later this year congress will vote on that. Besides, would the FDA leak this info before Tuesday. I wonder whats really true?
|5.1.09 @ 8:20PM|#
This just shows that once again that to the prohibitionists the perfect is the enemy of the good.
|5.1.09 @ 8:24PM|#
Am I overly suspicious to think that maybe this has to do with
people who want to quit smoking not getting involved in expensive
"stop smoking" therapies if these things are legal?
Will somebody with the expertise please look into the finances of
the Anti-Smoking Crusade? It would be only fair; THEY'VE certainly
had enough hysterics about Big Tobacco's finances.
|5.1.09 @ 9:46PM|#
Please post this additional email as noted in
www.e-cigarette-forum.com
From: "Hitch, Mary C", INTERNET:Mary.Hitch@fda.hhs.gov
To: , SMOKEFREE
Date: 5/1/2009 5:05 PM
RE: Email from Heather Zawalick (CBER)
Dear Mr. Godshall:
Your communication was forwarded to me for response as a function
of FDA's Office of External Relations. The email to which you refer
contains factual errors and does not reflect an official FDA action
or policy.
Sincerely,
Mary C. Hitch
Senior Policy Advisor
Office of External Relations
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
jtuf|5.1.09 @ 10:40PM|#
Personally, I dislike tobacco and tobacco products. I only started trying them to protest the FDA's steady fight against it. When I read this post, I broke open the can of smokeless tobacco I was saving for my upcoming trip. It's bitter, it gave me the hiccups, and I feel like vomitting from it, but that's still better than having some agency dictate what I can and can't consume.
Anonymous|5.1.09 @ 10:42PM|#
F*&K the FDA they have countless times approved items
then banned them
This isn't Slashdot, retard. If you mean "fuck", then fucking say
it. Until you learn that lesson, I'm going to beat
you over the head relentlessly with your own run-on sentence. If
you hadn't made it so long, it wouldn't hurt so much, now would
it?
|10.31.09 @ 3:28PM|#
If you think you are cool by using foul language, you don't know the meaning of cool. You just make ecigarette users look like uneducated slobs. Anyone reading your comments, would think you are all too stupid to make a sound judgement. Cool it and use a more educated form of reasoning.
|5.2.09 @ 1:48AM|#
I dunno, "nonviolent routes" to political change don't seem to
be working...
I just got my e-cig. I can taste the propylene glycol. it's
annoying. I think I'll stick with cigs, pipe, and snus for now. (at
least until they ban snus, too)
|5.2.09 @ 2:02AM|#
The FDA has been trying to ban the sale of Red Yeast Rice
Extract, which contains a naturally occurring form of Lovastatin -
a cholesterol lowering drug. Because it's a natural supplement, the
FDA can't do shit to stop the sale of RYRE. It's a fraction of the
cost of pharma-made Lovastatin and big gov't and big pharma ain't
getting a slice of that pie. I spent about $30 and got myself over
3 year's worth of RYRE. Imagine if I'd gotten the pharma-made shit,
how much I'd be paying for 3 year's worth?? I've been on RYRE for 9
months now and my cholesterol has gone way down; blood flow has
improved; blood pressure has normalized and I've lost the puffiness
in my face that's associated with high blood pressure.
My friend just found out of these e-cigs and he's been trying
everything under the sun to quit smoking real cigarettes and now
the government wants to take that away from him too?
Government's getting too effin' intrusive into people's lives and
it's gotta stop. Either that or it's going to come to a head;
people won't stand for it anymore, and all the bums in D.C. will
get tossed out on their asses, and hopefully out of this country on
a slow boat to effin' Siberia.
|5.2.09 @ 5:00AM|#
Alain | May 1, 2009, 5:53pm | #
Let's follow the money, are the cigarette companies bribing the
appropriate congressmen and/or FDA bureaucrat to limit
competition?******* I wanted to blame them too, but they don't even
have lobbyiest any more. This is all on our CONgressmen/women
|5.2.09 @ 8:29AM|#
The fda should spend more time looking into items that are "KNOWN" to cause health issues. Look into the peanut scare, and tobacco. I don't care how many tests are done on the e cig, the results will be want the anti smokers, big tobacco, and big pharms want them to be. It saddens me to live in the greatest nation in the world, and not able to trust our own gov't. for the corrupt bastards they are. I think the e cig will survive as soon as they find a way to tax it to death, or big tobacco or big pharm come out with their version, which we all know will be fda "approved". What a big surprise that will be.
|5.2.09 @ 10:14AM|#
Is there anybody here that thinks smoking tobacco is better for
you than using an e-cig.. raise your hands?...
Is there anybody here that thinks it would be easier for underage
people to buy e-cigs than it would be for them top buy tobacco...
raise your hands?
Exactly What I Thought! It does not take much intelligence to
already know the answer to these simple questions.
That is what makes Senator Lautenberg's motives so transparent,
well that and the $128,250 he recently received from big
Pharma.
This shit has got to stop! We the people are the ones who suffer
from their business deals. Now this time we are being forced to go
back to tobacco which is a death sentence without a doubt! I am
very sure a crime has been committed against the people of the
United States of America, is there a lawyer in the house?
|5.2.09 @ 12:03PM|#
Is there anybody here that thinks smoking tobacco is better for you than using an e-cig.. raise your hands?...
Is there anybody here that thinks it would be easier for underage people to buy e-cigs than it would be for them top buy tobacco... raise your hands?
Exactly What I Thought! It does not take much intelligence to already know the answer to these simple questions.
That is what makes Senator Lautenberg's motives so transparent, well that and the $128,250 he recently received from big Pharma.
Well said. The baptists and bootleggers tag team once again enters
the ring.
|5.2.09 @ 4:11PM|#
So tired of this crap.......here I quit smoking now I have to go
back so someone can make even more money on my death!
Will join a class action suit if anyone starts one!
|5.2.09 @ 8:26PM|#
Has cybersex been banned yet? I hope not because I'm still trying to figure out how to have it. It is as illusive as cold fusion.
Healthy Smoker|5.3.09 @ 2:50AM|#
I have been importing e-cigs from China for a few months now. I
am hoping that my shipments will keep reaching me. I pretty much
just sell them at cost so I can help as many people quit smoking as
I can. I still haven't had any shipmemts confiscated yet... hoping
that me supply keep steady so I can keep introducing people to my
"healthy cigarettes".
I start sweating every time my package is listed as "handed over to
customs"(my last package was in customs for 4 day). Hopefully I am
still small enough to fly under the radar.
I still have some in stock if anybody still needs one. I sell them
for cheap. Check out my link if you need one.
|5.3.09 @ 4:20AM|#
FDA sucks! Flat plain & simple, I am an adult, I am old enough to make my own decisions about what I put in my body. Tobacco is legal, always been legal. Yes cigarettes are bad for you, I agree & that is why I decided to go with the e-cig. I enjoy smoking, I don't want to give it up so who is the FDA to tell me, (in a free country) how I can get my nicotine? My body, my business, my decisions, no one elses. They are stating, it makes it easier for minors to get addicted, which is garbage. It is parents responsibility as to what a minor does, not the FDA. Cigarettes are illegal for minors to purchase & look how many smoke. Do they honestly think banning these will keep them from the "kids"? FDA is the biggest bunch of overpaid idiot's around, well next to the government.
|5.3.09 @ 5:41PM|#
I am 53 years old-- started smoking when I was 18 years old.I
started smoking the Tobacco free E-cig the first week Of December
2008. My Cough is gone!-I FEEL GREAT !- My family and Friends are
Happy for me-- I do not stink anymore either!!The E-cig has changed
my life for the better !! This is the i-pod for Smokers! THE NEW
TECHNOLOGY FOR SMOKERS ! The E-cig is an Earth Shattering Market
Phenom -- This product is not about getting people to start
smoking--it is about helping Smokers smoke without the use of
filthy tobacco. WITH ALL DO RESPECT---- I WILL NOT STOP USING THE
E-CIG--- AND I DON'T CARE WHO ATTEMPTS TO STOP ME!--- The Eletronic
Cigarette is simply a cheaper(less than tobacco cigs) and cleaner
(does not stink) alternative to Tobacco. Smoking is not Health
food-- ADULTS CAN MAKE THEIR OWN DECISION AS TO WHAT THEY WANT TO
SMOKE --- Please--- Get over it !!-- I think our Leaders in
Government and the FDA have bigger "fish to fry "
currently.----
PEACE
Jeff
BruceM|5.4.09 @ 6:44AM|#
Big Tobacco doesn't want safer competition. So they paid for
lobbyists to get the government involved to ban the
competition.
Duh. What, did you think Obama would be different? Take your hope
and shove it up your ass.
Elwar|5.4.09 @ 10:56AM|#
I just ordered some e-cigs for my wife on Thursday, they arrive
today...and they will be banned tomorrow.
This sucks.
|5.4.09 @ 2:01PM|#
Who do you think is going to enforce this ban on a local/state
level? You think cops will actually give a rats ass? Eventually the
govt will wise up before the revolution occurs.
Topple the new world order and this whole thing will come crashing
down. We will rebuild a better and more just society.
Obama, or no Obama, this was bound to happen. A new president does
not mean politics changes overnight. Anybody who would believe that
is a dope.
esmokez|5.5.09 @ 3:42PM|#
If you want to stockup before the ban, I have a good supply. Check out my link
bizzyb0t|5.6.09 @ 9:41AM|#
Honestly, the best eliquid I've had yet, came from TrueVapor. To
go to the site, click my name above to go to their online store.
Cheap prices, great product and fast shipping!!
Check it out!
|5.6.09 @ 5:37PM|#
I have been smoke/tobacco-free for 5 weeks. This is the first
time in over 50 years I haven't smoked a cigarette, and I owe it
all to e-cigarettes. My cough has completely gone away, the pitch
of my voice is higher, and I have energy I haven't felt in many
years.
So what if I'm getting nicotine WITHOUT the other contaminates???
Don't they want me to be healthier? And more productive? And feel
better?
NRG|5.7.09 @ 11:58PM|#
FUCK FUCK FUCK the FDA!!! I live in NYC... cigarettes are TEN DOLLARS A FUCKING PACK!!! many of the e-cig products I've seen have AT LEAST 5 cartridges that come with the starter kit... they cost LESS than $90... an equivalent of 10 packs of cigarettes for less than ten actual packs of cigarettes! So the FDA is trying to tell me that I can't save my health AND save money at the same time? FUCK those little hypocritical pieces of shit. They approve Prozac, anti depressants which ironically may result in side effects such as SUICIDAL THOUGHTS (WTF???), shit like AMBIEN which is KNOWN to be addictive as fuck, medications which may result in symptoms MUCH harsher than whatever the fuck they are treating, and they are actually contemplating on banning something which will SIGNIFICANTLY improve a smoker's chances to avoid cancer... FUCK those pro smoke-till-you-cough-your-fucking-lungs-out bastards... FUCK EM!... BTW... what the fuck happened to the smoking causes lung cancer and all that shit? or do we close our eyes on those "inconvenient harmful effects of smoking" when a product comes along which has the potential to absolutely put piece of shit conglomerates like Phillip Morris out of business forever... motherfuckers who keep corrupt governmental lard asses nice and fat? What fucks with me is the fact that America can get away with corruption in the government because there is enough money in the system to keep every single one of the corrupt cocksucker senators who sell out the population's health for a quick cash gain content... Things like this REALLY piss me off... this will conclude my angry rant =]
|5.8.09 @ 4:37AM|#
The government and the snobbish puritans in society are
HYPOCRITS! They speak out of both sides of their mouths. They
condemn and treat tobacco smokers like drug addicts, stating how
bad real tobacco is (which it is, and I do not dispute), but then
turn around, and say ban e-cigs, which has already proven to get
thousands of tobacco smokers off of tobacco. NOTHING is 100% safe,
but e-cigarettes are much more safer than real tobacco. Drinking
caffeine has already been proven to be more damaging. And what is
next? Going after all people ten pounds over weight, because it is
unhealthy?
If the government really cared about the health of its citizens, it
would have long ago banned real tobacco and tobacco farms years
ago.
Here is the TRUTH: The government wants smokers to keep smoking, in
order to real in the billions of dollars annually that smokers pay
for their habit.
The pharmaceutical companies want control and money for their
nicotine products (nicorette gum, patches, etc.). They don't want
the e-cig sold by independent distributors and manufacturers,
because it takes away from their profits.
The pharma companies long ago spent billions of dollars on research
to PROVE that nicotine, although considered a drug, is not cancer
causing, in order to produce and sell their very expensive nic
patches gum, etc.
The only time nicotine can be dangerous, even fatal, is if consumed
in
high quantities in liquid form. Otherwise, if it were dangerous,
nic patches and gum would not be allowed for sale over the counter
as it is today.
If they were worried that minors and people who don't smoke were
more likely to consume nicotine via the e-cig, then they would
never allow nicotine gum and patches be sold over the
counter.
LIES, LIES, LIES!
Furthermore, upon research, one will find that many U.S. senators
and powers to be, hold stock in many tobacco companies.
So the truth is, they care nothing about your health, and would
prefer you remain smoking the real dangerous product called
tobacco, while at the same time, bitch at you for smoking, and even
remove health care coverage from you, should you become sick due to
smoking the real tobacco.
TIME FOR A REVOLUTION! TIME TO STOP THE GOVT. AND THE NON-SMOKING
FANATICS FROM INTRUDING ON OUR PRIVATE LIVES!
For the record, my husband no longer has a raspy voice since vaping
e-cigs, or a cough, since quitting tobacco. MANY, even thousands of
e-cig customers are testifying to how well they feel since giving
up tobacco, while now vaping e-cigs. BUT THAT DOESN'T SEEM PROOF
ENOUGH????!!!
NOTHING HAS WORKED FOR MANY TOBACCO SMOKERS, UNTIL THE E-CIG WAS
INVENTED! PATCHES, GUM, NOTHING!!! but the e-cig works.
About time smokers (even tobacco smokers) started getting
aggressive (in voice) to fight for their rights too! After all, the
smokers have paid billions of dollars in taxes to help keep this
country running, moreso, then the non-smokers have!
|5.8.09 @ 2:53PM|#
Too much talk and no action. Any volunteers to create a simple website to register those of us that are ready to do something about the FDA and our Government's interference in our daily lives? I would like to explore the possibilities and have a goal of meeting in DC July 4th weekend or Labor Day (prefer sooner than later) for a show of strength! Short of action, we will be no better off one year from now than we are now! We can talk or we can act. I vote (yes, we still get to vote) for action and leave the talk to those that are unwilling to act!
|5.10.09 @ 1:10AM|#
I don't know what I'll do if they ban these; probably start
smoking again and feel like a loser. I was able to quit cigs within
2 days after receiving my ecig kit from my concerned children.
Since, I have gone from high to medium nic levels in my filters and
plan to keep doing it at 0 nic because I enjoy the sensation.
I smoked for 35 years and was at almost 2 packs a day. I've already
saved hundreds of dollars that I'm going to put towards a solar
system for my house. Better yet, I've lost the horrible guilt that
I felt from being a smoker.
I think it is silly that people would think that this would appeal
to youngsters who don't already smoke (and if they do smoke, I'd
rather they vape instead anyway). Do you honestly think a teen is
going to blow $150 just to get a nic hit when they can easily
purchase cigarettes?
What's next? Let's get rid of coffee flavoring so kids don't get a
caffeine habit? They just don't like it that there is a product
that can aid smoker's health without the pain and craving of horrid
patches and disgusting gum. They want smokers to be punished and
that is the bottom line! This is too easy and enjoyable.
I honestly think I will be devastated if this miracle product were
taken away. Unlike other products, it satisfies the behavioral
addiction of smoking; this is the only thing that has ever worked
for me.
sam|5.10.09 @ 2:48PM|#
we can supply anyone with the best deals on electronic
cigs
www.thesmokingplace.com sam
our site will have pay pal within two days
|5.11.09 @ 10:00AM|#
No, this is not a Puritanical move on the part of our current
government, it is a money grab pure and simple. Remember, they have
just passed a huge sin tax on cigarettes and they do not wish for
us consumers to have an alternative that denies them their filthy
lucre.
Your personal physician may care very much about your health but
your government doesn't.
|5.11.09 @ 2:42PM|#
I got the blucigs.com brand and I haven't smoked a traditional
cig since. Well... I had about 8 the first week...
I found that using a low dose patch along with the blu is a great
way to kick the old coffin nails
David|5.11.09 @ 3:12PM|#
I would like to thank the fine folks at FDA for trying to
protect me from the consequences of my own actions. It is good to
know Big Brother is looking out for me. I wonder when Big Brother
will decide that skiing is just too dangerous and I shouldn't be
allowed to do that, either?
For the truth about electronic cigarettes, please visit
http://www.e-cig-info.org, a non-commercial information
website.
ChaosAlien999|5.11.09 @ 6:12PM|#
Hey it's way better than the millions of poisions in the real one realy this one is better duhhhhhh
ChaosAlien999|5.11.09 @ 7:15PM|#
Holllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllly crap it's freakin monday of
the 11th and still no ban i think they are
LYIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
If fda wants to realy do this than stock up i mean their is probaly
bribe coming from camel or others i mean really this is healthier
USE THE E CIGARETE
ElectroPuff|5.12.09 @ 12:14AM|#
Yeah, right...ban ecigs and keep the real tobacco out on the
market. What a brilliant idea!
The FDA couldn't care less about anybody's health. It's a damn
travesty and more and more I become ashamed of being an
American.
In these tough economic times, the FDA is only to allow tobacco
companies to continue peddling their overtaxed junk. The amount of
taxes the Government is making now on tobacco products is
INSANE!!!
And they have no problem keeping nicotine gum and patches on the
market, because they know these things DON'T work. The only thing
that can really get a smoker off of tobacco cigarettes is an
electronic cigarette. Every true
smoker knows that they won't be satisfied until they actually feel
that inhale going down their throat.
You simply CANNOT get that from anything else but ecigs.
Phanto|5.12.09 @ 9:35AM|#
Next thing you know, they'll be banning sugar-free chocolates
because diabetics who aren't addicted to chocolate yet can easily
get addicted to it now.
At least Photo Sprays aren't
controlled by the FDA.
|5.13.09 @ 1:07PM|#
I received an Email from Njoy that I have been purchasing from,
informing me that their shipments have been held in customs by FDA
order, and they do not know when they will resume providing
product.
So yes - the ban is beginning to take hold.
|5.14.09 @ 12:17PM|#
Yes. It's american way. Next, they must ban sexual activities in hotel, because kids in next room can be hear "illegal sound". Just do it in your own basement american people!
|5.14.09 @ 5:42PM|#
Well, it appears nobody is Washington bound to fight the fight.
I can't do it alone! One thing I can do is provide the source,
after trying a number of them, of the best e-cigarette on the
market. They are of European Design, Quality, and Origin. I hope
they are still shipping the USA as they have limited quantities for
the U.S. because of demand in Europe. The U.S. site is
www.smartsmokerusa.com. Once you have tried their device I think
most of you will be ready to fight the fight. Please keep me
posted.
Regards
|5.14.09 @ 6:14PM|#
Obama won't do anything, he can afford to buy real cigarettes, plus his "government" formaly known as the USA, wants to control and save the big tobacco companies from losing money. Keep it up US, and we'll be just like all the other socialist country's.
Jodie|10.5.09 @ 8:15PM|#
I guess what I don't get is how the hell are they holding shipments up in customs when this has not been banned or made illegal??
|10.11.09 @ 7:12PM|#
Sure... par for the course for idiot government.
Ban e-cigs, but unfiltered Camels are A-OK.
Get rid of this nanny-state bull. Your govt is trying to run your life!
e-cigarette|10.15.09 @ 2:43AM|#
DFA role is to have a a good wealth among us. They need to ban the e-cigarettes just to keep our lungs safe from nicotine.
tmrl|10.21.09 @ 1:30AM|#
do you people have any idea at all the revenue the government makes off taxing cigerettes? thats the only reason theyre even still legal. all those truth teenagers should rally against the usa, theyre making 70% of the profit on all the deaths. "DO NOT FUCK WITH MY MONEY" says the US as it outlaws a life saving product
|10.22.09 @ 6:38PM|#
Hey Kirk, YOU are buying Obama's fucking cigs for him and so am I with tax money that we paid on our own cigarettes which we give him for his salary! So yeah, he CAN afford 8-10 dollars per pack while I sit here scraping my fucking pennies together to feed my own habit of smoking FDA APPROVED death sticks but I can't buy something that wont kill me as fast to feed my habit because Uncle $am isn't making any money on it !!
|10.31.09 @ 3:44PM|#
Maybe you Americans should write Obama, about the safer nicotine vaping of ecigarettes. If I were a producer of ecigarettes, I would send him a kit. Might just save his life and your business.
|11.10.09 @ 4:45PM|#
I went and did it. I shouldn't have converted 5 of my smoking friends to e-cigs. Cigerette Companies have picked up on me and they are trying to save their asses from me converting every single person that ask me "What the hell is that" when I'm out by the smoking area at school. I'm sorry guys I'll keep it to myself. pshhh these greedy bastards piss me off.
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