May 6th, 2016
From: CASAA.com
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Please keep in mind that this is not the end of the process. CASAA will continue to focus our efforts to develop sensible regulation of vapor products that will have maximum benefit to consumers. The most important thing to remember is that consumers will continue to have access to the wide variety of vapor products for a period of time before the regulations take effect. But, for now, vaping as we know it will continue and we are not done by any means. Keep calm.
May 2nd, 2016
From: Medical News Today
Written by Catharine Paddock PhD
International experts in tobacco control are urging United States regulators to keep an open mind about regulating the use of e-cigarettes and other vaporized nicotine products and not just think about them as a gateway to tobacco use.
In a paper published in the journal Addiction, the experts propose a framework for evaluating the public health impact of e-cigarettes and other vaporized nicotine products (VPNs), and they bring together much of the evidence available on these products.
April 14th, 2016
From: The National Center for Public Policy Research
FDA Release of E-Cigarette Rules “Imminent”
House Appropriations Committee Can Take Steps to Deter FDA
FY2017 Agriculture Appropriations Bill To Be Debated in Committee Next Wednesday
Washington, D.C. / New York, NY – The Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Tobacco Products will soon publish its so-called “Deeming Regulations,” the framework for regulating e-cigarettes at the federal level.
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According to National Center for Public Policy Research Risk Analysis Director Jeff Stier, “the regulation could require all e-cigarettes that came to market after February 15, 2007, which is essentially all of them, to be removed from the market unless they win onerous pre-market approval.”
April 7th, 2016
From: Reason
Two public health researchers condemn the “information quarantine” surrounding safer nicotine products.
Jacob Sullum
In a blistering indictment of lying in the name of “public health,” two prominent tobacco researchers slam medical organizations and government agencies for suppressing information about the huge difference in risk between cigarettes and other nicotine products. Writing in The International Journal of Drug Policy, Lynn Kozlowski, a public health professor at the State University of New York in Buffalo, and David Sweanor, an adjunct law professor at the University of Ottawa, argue that a quasi-official “information quarantine” surrounding smokeless tobacco and e-cigarettes endangers people’s lives based on implausible utilitarian concerns coupled with “emotionally charged moral reactions” of “disgust and contempt.”
April 1st, 2016
From: The Cigar Authority
The forthcoming Food and Drug Administration (FDA) deeming regulations on cigars have been put to the side for now, say insiders, as there is a temporary freeze on the FDA Ruling close sources tell The Cigar Authority today.
The story heard is that the decision for the freeze came immediately following President Obama’s historic visit to Cuba this past Tuesday March 22nd.
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