F.D.A. Orders Juul to Stop Selling E-Cigarettes
The agency ruled against the company’s application to stay on the market, a decisive blow to a once-popular vaping brand that appealed to teenagers.
This is a very interesting proactive use of the FDA.
Do we save lives of the fools? Or let people abuse the general population for a buck?
In medical circles saving lives comes before all, including the US Constitution as often reinterpreted by the courts.
The ruling is common sense. The sellers and the buyers are costing the rest of us. It is a free ride for the sellers.
There is controversy about Juul because it helps some adult smokers quit smoking. The nicotine isn’t toxic. It’s the cigarette smoke that causes damage to the lungs.
That benefit has to be weighed against the harm of young people illegally vaping with Juul.
There is controversy about Juul because it helps some adult smokers quit smoking.
I am fairly confident that the courts will overrule the FDA - and they should.
Heck, the FDA is going to allow cigars and cigarettes but not vaping - simply because the businesses are failing to effectively police their customers? How would that be any different if those same businesses sold the kids cigarettes instead?
The way to reduce the availability of vaping for kids is to hit the merchant that is selling them to kids. Each state has some version of Excise Police where a significant part of their job is to police those businesses.
Bud and Bud Light is often considered the brand most often abused by underage drinking. It would be silly to ban Bud based on that preference.
While Juul may help people quit there are more people starting with Juul and ending up on tobacco.
Weening off of nicotine has always been a bad plan. The gum now is considered not worth it. Even decades ago many of the gum chewers were smoking more.
Nicotine is toxic if you look at what happens when people consume more. We can not really separate out nicotine from horrible results.
The courts look as if they will over rule this. It is yet to be seen. But it is not that simple. The public is getting more and more vocal. The court will have more and more of a problem being ignorant.
“I think perhaps the #1 concern about vaping right now is the so-called gateway effect. Our own literature suggests that 2 million young adults use electronic cigarettes as their first nicotine-based product. They’re not trying to quit smoking — they’ve never smoked before.”
DB2, those kids like any other generation have no idea about vaping and cigarettes. They add tobacco/nicotine in larger numbers to their habits.
From the link:
Vaping, using nicotine-laced products, can become a tenacious and expensive habit, and kids might not stop there…“We might be causing the next smoking epidemic through young people getting addicted to electronic cigarettes early in life,” he says.
I was hoping you might have a link to some actual studies, numbers, percentages, trends, etc.
I was hoping you might have a link to some actual studies, numbers, percentages, trends, etc.
Also interesting is that the ban is on one brand and not the category. At any rate…
Juul can keep selling its vaping products in the U.S. — for now www.wwno.org/npr-news/npr-news/2022-06-24/juul-can-keep-sell…
Juul can continue to sell its electronic cigarettes, at least for now, after a federal appeals court on Friday temporarily blocked a government ban. Juul filed an emergency motion earlier Friday, seeking the temporary hold while it appeals the sales ban. The e-cigarette maker had asked the court to pause what it called an “extraordinary and unlawful action” by the Food and Drug Administration that would have required it to immediately halt its business…
While Juul remains a top seller, its share of the U.S. e-cigarette market has dipped to about half.