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It’s no secret cigarettes are bad for you and President Obama’s doctors told him kick the bad habit.
A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Food and Drug Administration to stop blocking the importation of from China and indicated that the devices should be regulated as tobacco products rather than drug or medical devices.
Judge Richard J. Leon of Federal District Court in Washington issued a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit brought by two distributors of the so-called , which are battery-powered tubes that heat liquid nicotine into an inhalable vapor and are meant to simulate the taste of tobacco.
The distributors say the vapor contains virtually none of the cancer-causing chemicals of traditional cigarettes, but the F.D.A. says it has not been proved safe.
“This case appears to be yet another example of F.D.A.’s aggressive efforts to regulate recreational tobacco products as drugs or devices,” Judge Leon wrote.
With the passage of landmark tobacco legislation last year, he added, the Food and Drug Administration’s new tobacco division will be able to regulate the contents and marketing claims of e-cigarettes in the same way it is about to begin regulating traditional tobacco products. But the agency’s drug division cannot ban the devices, the judge ruled.
The Food and Drug Administration issued a brief statement: “The public health issues surrounding are of serious concern to the F.D.A. The agency is reviewing Judge Leon’s opinion and will decide the appropriate action to take.”
Ray Story, vice president of an E.Cigarette company in Florida that filed the suit, said the ruling was a victory for smokers who want a safer cigarette.
“The public will have a much less harmful alternative to tobacco products,” Mr. Story said. “Wherever they’re sold, we are going to be sold.”
Jack Leadbeater, chief executive of Sottera, an Arizona company that joined the suit, said border authorities would have to stop blocking and seizing imports and would have to release thousands of impounded e-cigarettes and millions of nicotine cartridges.
Mr. Leadbeater, chairman of the Electronic Cigarette Association, estimated that the products were a $100 million business nationwide.
Matthew L. Myers, president of the antismoking advocacy group Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, said the ruling opened a gaping loophole in the legislation his organization and other health groups had promoted to give the Food and Drug Administration authority to regulate tobacco products.
The law, signed by President Obama last June, was intended for traditional tobacco products, not electronic ones where nicotine levels and flavors could be easily adjusted, Mr. Myers said.
He said e-cigarettes posed several potential serious risks to public health, including lack of controls on potency, a means to discourage current smokers from quitting by providing an alternative in smoke-free spaces and the possibility “these products could serve as a pathway to nicotine addiction for children.”
Judge Leon argued that the devices should be regulated in the same way as cigarettes. The judge also agreed with the distributors that e-cigarettes were not marketed as medical devices to help smokers quit, as the Food and Drug Administration had argued, but rather as safer substitutes to give users “the nicotine hit that smokers crave.”
The plastic tubes, shaped like cigarettes, have a heating element to vaporize a refillable liquid nicotine mixture. They have electronics to monitor air flow so that when a user inhales, the device delivers a vapor with a taste and feel that the distributors say simulates cigarette smoke.
Traditional cigarette makers have not been involved in the fledgling industry.
Martin Roche Article Source:
The Electronic Cigarette Company
Will President Obama Respond To My Offer to Cure Him of Smoking?
Why would he not respond to an offer that will save his life?
1. Because he is too busy?
Who is too busy to save their own lives? Maybe President Obama should ask his daughters if they would mind him asking for three or four hours off his time with them to stop smoking. Do you think they would say ‘no’”?
2. Because he doesn’t want to quit smoking?
What smoker doesn’t want to quit smoking? When I find them I ask whether you want your kid’s to smoke? If the answer is no – which I know it is – don’t you think this is a big contradiction?
3. Because he enjoys it?
Again do you want your daughters to smoke so they can enjoy it as well? If it is so enjoyable why wouldn’t you want your daughters to experience this wonderful feeling?
4. Because he cannot stop smoking?
Who the hell told him that? Smoking is simply a drug addiction. He and the millions of smokers are simply drug addicts. Curing drug addicts is simple. Stop using the drug.
5. Because he will go crazy with the withdrawal ‘pain’?
What pain there is no or very very little physical pain caused by withdrawal from nicotine?
6. Because he’ll go crazy during withdrawal?
You are getting closer to the biggest problem in dealing with stopping smoking.
7. Because he does not like the symptoms caused by the withdrawal from nicotine?
Ok again getting almost hot. When we experience withdrawal from any major drug we experience certain symptoms. These symptoms for smokers last only three days because nicotine leaves your body quickly. It is the fastest addictive drug in the world but it also leaves our bodies quickly allowing us the opportunity to stop quickly and easily. It will totally disappear and in the first three days you eliminate most if not all of these symptoms.
8. Because he has too much stress?
He certainly doesn’t seem to be under any particular stress right now despite two failed wars began by his predecessor, a health care plan that is being attacked and that he still smokes. And just a few other things on his mind. Once again is it not better to live than to die before his time?
9. Because he thinks it is too late?
Wrong again it is never too late. Our bodies have miraculous recuperative powers and once nicotine is stopped the body immediately begins to recuperate.
10. Because he cannot stand the withdrawal from nicotine?
Ok that’s enough. The reason for this particular problem and it is a problem is because of the misconception in your unconscious mind. I won’t fully explain it here. But how do you cure this? Through a systematic auto suggestion method and through minor self hypnosis but you need to know where to go to find it. Keep looking it is somewhere.
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