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The Chicago Independent Press is reporting that Walmart has pulled electronic cigarettes from their shelves. People who want to buy electronic cigarettes will no longer be able to walk into the smoking section of their local Walmart and buy electronic cigarettes.

For thousands of Americans, electronic cigarettes (or e-cigs as they are sometimes called) have been a “miracle” that has helped them quit smoking, or, at the very least, drastically reduced it. But not everyone is a fan of electronic cigarettes and lawmakers in New York are hurriedly attempting to ban the sale of them in the state. Hearing the anti-electronic cigarette news from state lawmakers across the country, retail giant Walmart has backed away from the sale of the controversial items.

“They offered a smokeless solutions kit but now it’s gone,” says Rachel Johnson. Rachel has using electronic cigarettes for two years and she claims she has never felt better. “I don’t know what the problem is, it’s harmless and there have been no studies showing otherwise. I think the congress in New York just don’t understand it. If it’s new, it’s bad according to them.”

Walmart was rumored to carry electronic cigarettes and store them in the smoking section behind one of the checkout aisles. It’s the same place traditional smokes are kept and sale of the devices would be to those over the age of 18.

“I was excited over it. I thought, ‘Man, if Walmart is behind it, then there’s no stopping it. Millions will be saved.’” says Johnson. “But they’re cowards. I guess they’ll go back to selling NASCAR pants and huge bags of cheese snacks.”

If legislation is passed in New York, the state would be the first to ban electronic cigarettes until the FDA can study the device to make sure it’s not a health risk. Pundits expect the bill to be passed in the state house. It will go to the Republican-controlled Senate afterward. New York GOP members have been mum on the issue.

“If I can quit without e-cigarettes, then anybody can do it,” says New York Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal, a Democrat.

Linda Rosenthal is out of her mind if she thinks that just because she was able to quit using one method that that should be fine for everybody else as well. Some people react differently to different methods, others like and enjoy different methods and take to them better or worse, and some things just work differently on different people.

It is a shame that Walmart will not be carrying them. This would have opened the market, and many people would have been exposed to buy electronic cigarettes and made the move away from what is clearly bad to what is better – tobacco to ecigs.

The best line in the article is this, “I was excited over it. I thought, ‘Man, if Walmart is behind it, then there’s no stopping it. Millions will be saved.’” says Johnson. “But they’re cowards. I guess they’ll go back to selling NASCAR pants and huge bags of cheese snacks.”

How true.

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This week has been a busy week for electronic cigarette litigation, and, in my opinion, a successful week for the people who buy electronic cigarettes.

The FDA has been trying to get the ability to regular electronic cigarettes as a drug or medical device, but the courts have so far rejected the FDAs petitions saying they cannot be regulated as such, but can be regulated as tobacco products. After the FDA lost the court case, the FDA decided to appeal the decision, taking the case to the US Circuit Court of Appeals.

This week the Court of Appeals heard the case, and they too rejected the FDA.

Here is the report from CSP Daily News:

This week, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that the full court will not review a three-judge panel’s decision, issued in early December. That panel’s decision was that electronic cigarettes cannot be regulated by the FDA as a drug or medical device, but can be regulated as a tobacco product by the FDA–provided the manufacturer refrains from marketing the product as having therapeutic purposes.

The lawsuit issue considered last year by the three-judge panel was whether the FDA could regulate electronic cigarettes under the drug and device provisions of the Federal Food, Drug and Comestic Act (FDCA) or as tobacco products under the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (Tobacco Control Act) passed in 2009.

In this litigation, the FDA had argued that electronic cigarettes are drug or medical devices under the FDCA, which require approval from the agency–similar to approvals given to nicotine gum and nicotine patch products. However, the three judge panel determined that electronic-cigarette manufacturers had not made therapeutic claims and, for that reason, the products could not be regulated under the drug and device provisions of the FDCA.

With the full U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals deciding not to review the three-judge panel’s decision, the FDA has the option of requesting the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case. Media reports indicate that the FDA is considering its legal and regulatory options.

Personally I think this is good news. And I think they would be silly to take the case to the Supreme Court. They can only do this because they are playing with other people’s money.

They should already see it as obvious that the courts are protecting the people and see the situation as it should be seen – these are, at worst, tobacco devices (and even then only because of the nicotine). They really should be independently tested, and , assuming they pass the testing process, approved as a smoking cessation device, or a smoking alternative.

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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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