March 22nd, 2016
From: The San Diego Union-Tribune
Study intended to help FDA monitor e-cigarette messages
By Bradley J. Fikes
Federal health officials can identify electronic cigarette supporters with near total accuracy by using a predictive model, according to a government-funded study published earlier this month.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration can use this model to monitor what e-cigarette supporters say on Twitter as the agency prepares to regulate the devices, according to the study. The model requires human assistance to function, but the goal is develop a program that can run independently.
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March 17th, 2016
From: CSPnet.com
Will potential deeming regulations wipe out vaping?
By Samantha Strong Murphey, Freelance writer
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“Vape shops offer a great service,” Wiesehan says. “They educate the consumer. Quite frankly, we’ve needed vape shops to bring vaping to others. They’ve advanced the knowledge base. But once customers have that knowledge, usually wherever they can get it the cheapest and quickest wins.”
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David Graham, senior vice president of global regulatory affairs for NJOY, Scottsdale, Ariz., also feels confiident in the “preparation and capability NJOY has built in anticipation of the regulations.” He says NJOY has met several times with the FDA and the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, which is currently reviewing the regulations.
March 11th, 2016
From: CSPnet.com
Results show little evidence of consistent electronic cigarette use
By Melissa Vonder Haar, Tobacco Editor, CSP
CHICAGO — Last week’s Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco Conference included numerous tobacco and nicotine-related presentations, most notably select data from the first wave of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and National Institute of Health’s Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) study.
“E-cigs were a big topic in the PATH study, along with many other presentations, as the regulatory and scientific communities try to get a better grasp of the implications from this innovation, Vivien Azer, a tobacco analyst at the New York-based Cowen Group, wrote in a research note.
March 3rd, 2016
From: American Council on Science and Health
by Gil Ross
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Even passage of the Cole Amendment would not be a panacea. The real hope rests with the Office of Management and Budget, an outpost of the White House (where we visited last November to plead this case), which has yet to rule on the FDA’s destructive proposal.
There is still time, and hope, that OMB will perceive the anti-business, anti-public health nature of the FDA’s proposed regulation, and either remove the most heinous parts or simply eviscerate it and tell them to try again, this time with public health, not their own petty agenda, in mind.
February 25th, 2016
From: Motherboard
Written by Kaleigh Rogers, Staff Writer
A New York court has ruled that, under state law, vapers can’t be charged for violating anti-smoking rules because—as millions of vapers have been repeating for years—vaping isn’t smoking. This is the latest sign of a gradual acceptance by lawmakers and legal systems that the distinction between the two is genuine and significant. In the face of imminent federal regulations, that distinction is paramount to the vaping industry.
