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Archive for December, 2010

The FDA has been saying that the ingredients in electronic cigarettes are too unknown and have not been researched enough to determine whether or not ecigs are safer than cigarettes or not.

Because of that, the electronic cigarette companies and people who promote them are not allowed to make any ecig health claims.

Engadget points to a new study by Boston University’s School of Public Health that says otherwise.

They say:
researchers at Boston University’s School of Public Health has found that not only are e-cigarettes much safer to “smoke” than normal ones, they may also aid in kicking the addictive habit altogether. According to the researchers, “few, if any” of the chemicals found in e-cigarettes pose serious health risks, and carcinogen levels in them are up to 1,000 times lower than in actual tobacco

That’s an amazing study and validation of the industry. One day the FDA will see the light as well and promote smoking electronic cigarettes as an alternative to tobacco cigarettes.

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Yesterday I was out early for a brisk walk in the fresh morning air and enjoying the clean and fresh air. It was a pleasant morning, and the breathing was very refreshing with the clean air after some nice rains, the trees and flowers giving off their scents – it was really nice.

So I am walking along, climbing a set of stairs through a park, when suddenly a pungent, bitter and offensive smell hits my nose. I could hardly breathe.

I looked around to find the source of the offensive smell and found about 15 feet away a fellow walking while smoking a cigarette. There was nobody else or anything else around (this was at about 5:00 AM).

The first thing I thought of was how can he possibly be oblivious to the horrible smell he is dispersing all over himself and all over his surroundings? How can he be oblivious to the unpleasantness of what he is doing, how it disturbs those around him (not me, as he probably didn’t even see me, rather the people he lives with and is in contact with on a daily basis who have to suffer with his odor all the time)? How can it not bother him?

And then I thought to myself how people can continue to enjoy their smoking, their cigarettes, and not have to smell so bad. They can smoke electronic cigarettes, produce electronic vapor that is odorless and fleeting rather than persistent. They can continue enjoying their smokes, continue feeding their habits, but do it in a much more pleasant way.

The smoker would be a much more pleasant person to be around if he didn’t reek of such pungent odors, and buying electronic cigarettes is the way to make that happen.

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There is good news in the electronic cigarette industry today. And while it sounds great, I am not 100% sure it is completely great.

The news is that the FDA lost its appeal against an electronic cigarette company, Njoy, regarding regulation.

The FDA had tried to regulate the industry as a drug or device, and lost their initial claim. they filed an appeal to have the ruling overturned, and the appeals court has now decided and has upheld the original decision. The FDA cannot regulate the electronic cigarette industry, and ecigs must be treated like a tobacco product.

That means, while the government cannot regulate it is a drug, they can oversee the marketing of electronic cigarettes because they are tobacco products.

That seems to be good, and it is for now, but I worry about what kind of trouble they will make in the future with it now being officially described as a regular tobacco product.

We’ll have to see what lies in store down the road, but for now at least the electronic cigarette industry is happy because of the ruling on the appeal.

From Bloomberg BusinessWeek:

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration lacks the authority to regulate electronic cigarettes as drugs or devices, an appeals court ruled, upholding a lower-court decision.

The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington said today the FDA can only regulate e-cigarettes as a tobacco product. The ruling means the government can oversee the marketing of the products, not restrict their sale.

E-cigarette maker Sottera Inc., which does business as Njoy, argued in the case that its products — battery-powered devices that generate a nicotine vapor instead of smoke — are tobacco products and not drugs. E-cigarettes are marketed as a tobacco alternative for “smoking pleasure,” rather than for therapeutic uses, the company said.

“We’re thrilled,” Craig Weiss, the president of Scottsdale, Arizona-based Njoy, said in a telephone interview. “Now we can continue to sell e-cigarettes under the regulations of the Tobacco Act.”

The FDA is “studying the opinion and considering next steps,” Jeffrey Ventura, a spokesman for the agency, said in an e-mailed statement. Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, a Washington-based group, criticized the decision.

“This ruling invites the creation of a wild west of products containing highly addictive nicotine, an alarming prospect for public health,” the group said in an e-mailed statement. “We urge the government to appeal this ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court.”

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