Since the FDA’s release of its deeming regulations, many excellent opinion pieces have been published on its consequences. Here is a (not so) comprehensive list of some of our favorites.
E-Cigarette Manufacturers Say New Regulations Will Devastate The Industry – Forbes
But Gregory Conley, president of the American Vaping Association, another trade group, maintains that the FDA’s cost estimates are unrealistic. “Ninety-nine percent plus of the products on the vapor market now will be banned within two years,” he says. E-Cigarette Manufacturers Say New Regulations Will Devastate The Industry – Forbes
FDA Announces First-Ever Federal Regulations of Electronic Cigarettes – NY1
Tens of thousands of jobs will be lost and consumer choice will be annihilated,” Gregory Conley, the president of the American Vaping Association, said in part in a statement. “This is not regulation — it is prohibition that will cost lives, kill jobs … FDA Announces First-Ever Federal Regulations of Electronic Cigarettes – NY1
Fortune Magazine on the FDA’s E-Cigarette Crackdown
“This is going to be a grim day in the history of tobacco-harm reduction,” Greg Conley, president of the American Vaping Association, told the Wall Street Journal. “It will be a day where thousands of small businesses will be contemplating whether they will continue to stay in business and employ people.” Feds Crack Down on […]
AVA to FDA: Extend Comment Period for Deeming Regs
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE American Vaping Association Calls on FDA To Extend Comment Period for Proposed E-Cigarette Rule E-cigarettes should not be regulated as tobacco products, AVA’s Conley says WASHINGTON, D.C., July 10, 2014 – The American Vaping Association (AVA), a leading advocate for the health benefits of electronic cigarettes, today called on the Food and […]
