Nation’s Largest Tobacco Company Fighting New FDA Vape Rules

Washington - The York Times reported Friday that the Altria Group and other e-cigarette and cigar companies have enlisted high-profile lobbyists and influential congressional allies in an attempt to stop the Food and Drug Administration from retroactively examining their products for public health risks or banning them from the market. Despite the FDA acknowledging that vaping is better than smoking, the administration worries that some ingredients in the juice are still harmful themselves and that vaping can lead to more teenage smokers.

The campaign targets a broad new rule that extends F.D.A. jurisdiction to include cigars, e-cigarettes and pipe and hookah tobacco.

Study finds most teens vaping fruity flavors, not nicotine

Health officials warn that electronic cigarettes and other vaping products are poisoning kids with nicotine...but they're not using it

The Latest In The Never-Ending Assaults On Our Freedoms. One Of These Is Lethal

TYRANNY IS about control. Even in democracies the natural tendency of government, unless stopped, is to expand its powers and extend its tentacles into every facet of its citizens’ lives–always in the name of helping them. Control means curtailing people’s opportunities to make choices and restricting the scope of their freedom of action. Left to their own devices bureaucracies would bar you from doing anything without first receiving a permission slip from them. Our Founders understood that it’s the steady accumulation of petty, tyrannical restrictions that leads to the ultimate loss of freedom.

Vaping vs Smoking

So your teenager is vaping e-cigarettes – should you worry?

When it comes to the argument of smoking vs. vaping, the discussion usually revolves around which one is the lesser of two evils.  However, is it enough to think vaping is "not as bad? as something else?  Occasionally yes.  The jury is still out as to whether or not vaping is safe or healthy, however most people agree that it is a much safer alternative to traditional cigarettes or cigars. Vaping, unlike smoking, involves the inhalation of vaporized e-cigarette liquid consisting of water, nicotine, a base of propylene glycol or vegetable glycerin and occasionally, flavoring. The lack of smoke inhalation is what leads many e-cigarette users to believe vaping is a safer alternative to smoking. E-cigarettes and other vaping products are on track to out-sell cigarettes by the end of 2023. And more and more young people are trying e-cigarettes. So what do you need to know about them? Are they less harmful than using cigarettes or other burned tobacco products?