Talk’s of a black market are already underway on many forums and social sites across the internet as the decision draws near on the fate of the e cigarette in a federal court. Other than a few special interest groups that are funded by big pharmaceutical companies putting pressure on the FDA to act against [...]
Consumers, doctors and scientists told the Food and Drug Administration Wednesday the public deserves to know more about how the agency makes complex scientific decisions about the medicine and food Americans consume.
Consumers said the FDA needs to more rigorously oversee clinical trials to ensure patients get treated fairly; doctors urged the FDA to flag safety [...]
They look like cigarettes, but they have names most people have never heard of: Gamucci, Cloud 9, and Njoy.
That’s because they are electronic cigarettes, or e-cigarettes. These battery-powered devices do not create smoke but provide a mist of nicotine to the user’s lungs.
These items are about to become better known because a federal judge is [...]
Advocates of electronic cigarettes are urging opponents of the product to seek more health tests before they try to ban them.
They are also praising Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s recent decision not to veto a bill that could have banned the sale of the product in the state.
The typical electronic cigarette mimics a real cigarette but is [...]
- I wonder if there is a conflict of interests here?
The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday began collecting millions in fees from the nation’s tobacco companies to help fund the agency’s newly granted authority to regulate the industry.
The user fees, which will be collected quarterly, are based on each company’s share of the U.S. [...]
Referring to smokers who switch to electronic cigarettes, FDA spokeswoman Siobhan DeLancey tells a St. Louis paper, “We don’t know if this is any better for them.” If the FDA really doesn’t know whether inhaling water vapor containing nicotine is less dangerous than inhaling smoke containing myriad toxins and carcinogens, it cannot be trusted to [...]
Tonya Moraffah takes a deep drag on her cigarette, feels the soothing surge of nicotine and explains what extinguished her 30-year, pack-a-day smoking habit.
Every evening, she plugs her battery-operated electronic cigarette into a charger. She no longer carries a lighter or sucks breath mints all day in the office.
“I call myself a non-smoker,” says Moraffah, [...]
Do you happen to have a beverage at your side? What is it? … Wait, what? Are you serious? O’m’gawd, your drink contains an ingredient used in antifreeze! Yeah, that’s right. Water. The term “…is an ingredient used in antifreeze” is the comestible, fear-mongering equivalent of “…then the terrorists win.”
I must concede that diethylene glycol [...]
By Jeff Stier, Associate Director, American Council on Science and Health
A major policy shift is underway, and it is bound to have a dangerous unintended consequence. The new team at the FDA has slapped a black box warning on an important class of drugs that treat inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn’s disease, and [...]
Will the FDA force electronic cigarettes to become the next black market?
A war is being waged between the FDA and electronic cigarette supporters.
The FDA wants to ban electronic cigarettes, claiming that they have not been adequately tested and therefore pose a threat to the American public. Supporters of the electronic cigarette say the FDA is [...]
