PLEASE READ UPDATE- VAPING GETS AN FDA REPRIEVE Congress has killed the vaping industry’s big hope for curbing the FDA’s “deeming” regulations, which e-cigarette vendors consider onerous, the American Vaping Association said Monday. However, another lobbying group, the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, praised the defeat, incurred in budget negotiations, as supporting healthy habits. The Cole-Bishop […]
13 groups support Cole-Bishop Amendment to Tobacco Control Act
[PDF] To the Members of the United States Congress: We, the undersigned organizations, urge you to provide regulatory relief from the Food and Drug Administration’s May 2016 “Deeming Rule” as part of the final FY17 omnibus appropriations package. Without a modernization of a provision of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (TCA), the […]
FDA claims authority to regulate nicotine-free e-cig products – Winston-Salem Journal
Several anti-smoking advocates have pushed back against the FDA stance on e-cigs. “At the same time that England and France are making great strides in distributing truthful information about vaping to the public, the FDA is ramping up the rhetoric and relying on easily debunked junk science,” said Gregory Conley, president of the American Vaping […]
FDA Mandates Begin Killing E-Cigarette Businesses, Driving Smokers to Tobacco – MRCTV
We warned that the new FDA approval process would cost vape liquid makers $1 million for each new and existing product they wanted to sell, that the expenses would cripple the growing industry, and that these regulations would slow or stop many smokers from dropping cancer-correlated cigarettes in favor of the much safer vape devices. […]
Vaping Industry Reels As New FDA Regs Go Into Effect – Daily Caller
“The bad news is that August 8th of this year marks the beginning of a two-year countdown to FDA prohibition of 99.9%+ of vapor products on the market,” American Vaping Association president Gregory Conley wrote in a press release. “If we do not succeed in changing the FDA’s arbitrary predicate date of February 15, 2007, […]