December 28th, 2016
From: SaintPetersBlog
William Patrick
On the verge of being snuffed out by Obama administration regulators, Florida’s traditional and culturally distinct premium cigar industry has a chance at new life.
Late last week, U.S. Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., the incoming chairman of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, met with President-elect Donald Trump and submitted a list of 232 items that could be repealed immediately after Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration.
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December 22nd, 2016
From: The Lens
By Chris Flowers, Contributing opinion writer
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Vaping delivers the sensation of smoking with 95 percent less harm to the human body, according to Great Britain’s Royal College of Physicians. A study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control shows upwards of 9 million vapers in the U.S. alone. And about 20,000 taxpaying businesses, employing over 100,000 people, have opened to serve the vaping public.
The bad news: The federal Food and Drug Administration, citing the 2009 Tobacco Control Act, has opted to classify vaping chemicals as a “tobacco product” — even though they contain no traditional tobacco. It’s a one-size-fits-all approach to regulation that poorly serves the public.
December 15th, 2016
From: Washington Examiner
By Paul Bedard
President-elect Trump’s team is being urged to kill new Food and Drug Administration rules that threaten to snuff out the e-cigarette business and rob chainsmokers of an alternative to ending their habit.
In a letter to Vice President-elect Pence, Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson and California Rep. Duncan Hunter said that the new regulations would eliminate the industry with fees of up to $1 million per product. Typically, vaping operations produce dozens of products, mostly different flavors of vapor.
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December 8th, 2016
From: Winston-Salem Journal
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However, Murthy told The Washington Post prior to releasing the report that “we know enough right now to say that youth and young adults should not be using e-cigarettes or any other tobacco product, for that matter.”
Murthy acknowledged the report doesn’t aim to resolve questions of whether e-cigs and vaporizers offer adult smokers a reduced-risk alternative to traditional cigarettes, or should be regulated similarly to traditional cigarettes.
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December 2nd, 2016
From: Winston-Salem Journal
The reality of a Trump administration focused on rolling back regulations has led a U.S. senator to jump-start efforts to curtail the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s rollout of new rules on innovative tobacco products.
U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., who won re-election Nov. 8, sent a letter Tuesday to FDA Commissioner Robert Califf that warns him that a Republican-controlled Congress and White House will target some, if not all, of the regulations that went into effect Aug. 8 on electronic cigarettes and vaporizers.
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