This letter originally appeared on Madison.com on February 11, 2015. Dear Editor: Chris Walker deserves credit for truthfully informing readers that vapor products, otherwise known as electronic cigarettes, are clearly less hazardous than smoking. (“Adding e-cigarettes to smoking ban is the right thing to do”) However, in arguing for Wisconsin’s smoking ban to apply to […]
FDA e-cig regulations would ‘decimate’ small businesses [FOX News]
Over the past two years, prominent anti-tobacco groups like the American Cancer Society and American Lung Association have worked to stop state-level bills to ban the sale of vapor products and electronic cigarettes to minors. The activist groups argue that unless vapor products are subject to tobacco-style regulations like usage bans and taxes, it is […]
Vaping Industry In Tough Fight Over E-Cigarette Bans [Associations Now]
In this article in Associations Now, Rob Scott highlights how the American Vaping Association and other groups are fighting against government-mandated restrictions on vaping. “Vape” may be Oxford Dictionaries’ 2014 Word of the Year, but its current popularity in the language isn’t shielding vaping from a wave of legislative activity to limit the use of […]
The Swirling, Contentious Debate About Open E-Cigs [Open Standard]
At the Open Standard, writer Greg Brown looks at the divide between open, refillable vapor products and purportedly non-refillable, sealed e-cigarette products. Brown also examines how Big Tobacco company Reynolds American / R.J. Reynolds is pushing the FDA to ban all e-liquids and open system products. Brown writes: “There are 40 million American smokers right […]
Reynolds Calls for Open System Ban [CSPNet]
fda At CSP News, tobacco editor Melissa Vonder Haar covers Reynolds American / RJ Reynolds’ request that the FDA ban all open system products and e-liquids. WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Included in Reynolds American Inc.’s (RAI) 119-page document commenting on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) proposed deeming regulations was the somewhat surprising request to […]
