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More gov't overreaching ! Regulating e-cigs

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The bottom line is that the government, sadly, wants to regulate every facet of our lives. That is not what the Founding Fathers envisioned or, in fact, delineated in the Constitution and Bill of Rights. The reason is that those in power crave that power and more besides.

Am I anti-government? No, but I do believe that we need to drastically reduce the size of government and restrict its powers to those defined in the Constitution. We cannot afford a government that is the be-all, do-all that some seem to want. Btw, this also applies to the state and local levels. I, nor any other reasonably sane adult, do not need the government protecting me from myself.
 
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I'm the first to complain about excessive government regulation.

And I've no doubt they will go too far with this product.

But some minimal consumer protection by requiring truth in advertising and accurate labeling of products is not tyranny. Quite the opposite.

The guy who is using vaporizers a smoking cessation ought to know that when he buys vaping liquid labeled with "X amount of nicotine" that he isn't getting 2X or 10X or 1/4X the indicated amount.

Preventing Chinese manufactured refills tainted with mercury or lead from being sold under the brand name of trusted US producers is good for both property rights and public health.

I've seen vaporizers dramatically improve the health of long-time smokers who couldn't or wouldn't quit otherwise. It seems their use generates a lot less litter than does smoking cigarettes. I'm a huge fan considering I've never had an inclination to use one.

Basic, minimal consumer protections with accurate labeling and some testing for safety (both of the chemical mixtures being used and the vaporizers themselves so we don't have batteries blowing up in people's faces) seems not unreasonable.

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Per the FDA’s proposal, any e-cig product made after 2007, including new models, must get FDA approval to be sold. That means hiring experts to do medical research to determine the health impact of the device, which can take months and cost an estimated $3-4 million and take 5,000 hours for each application.

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/th...ke-on-new-fda-regulations-but-not-big-tobacco

http://www.fda.gov/TobaccoProducts/Labeling/ucm388395.htm
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Given the fact that the federal government states that CO[SUB]2[/SUB] is a pollutant it is not surprising that they want their cut of this money making industry. My comment is a simple "HECK NO!...do not inflict upon us more government."

Let the market (the consumer...We The People) determine who stays and who goes. Zero government interference!!!
 
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Nightmare said:
You presume incorrectly.

The flavored liquid ingredients are regarded as safe for ingestion but not for inhalation for lack of testing.

One is known to cause bronchiolitis obliterans, A.K.A. Popcorn Lung when inhaled as an aerosol.

Indeed, "vaping" involves inhaling aerosols of condensed vapors, inhaling the liquid phase droplets rather than a supersaturated vapor. They can't even get the name right.
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Normally a vaping mixture containing any of these: water, glycerin, propylene glycol (PG) ... and additives for flavor etc.

You want to suck up glycol into your lungs? That's your choice. PG is allowed in food ...

Like your said, ingestion is totally different than inhalation. Liquids have different properties than gas - even with the same material.

The only thing that companies should do is to list all of the ingredients and a general range of %. Then people can make up their own minds.

Want to eat this 100% potassium cyanide? Go right ahead. Gotta be safer than 100% sodium cyanide, right?
 
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Nightmare said:
The median LD_50 dose is the same 10 (+/- 5) mg/kg for both potassium cyanide and sodium cyanide. It is the triple bonded cyano CN group that is effective, not the metallic salt.
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Thanks professor ! I guess I'll just go with Mg(CN)2 .. just to be safe ...
 
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Freedom1Man said:
You're correct, buyer/user beware. Keep government out of it.

As for the cyanide, let us see which one is safer by using politicians as the lab subjects.

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Maybe someone would create a cookie line just for them ! With the ingredients is really small print.

Yummy Yummy Cookies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozqfOzqMvlQ

[humor, duh]
 
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F350 said:
They want to control "the people" and by controlling ever more "things" they will eventually control everything and thus "the people" will be their slaves.
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in effect, we already are. we work, to pay them for things we dont' want, through collection of income taxes, compensation for our services and products, they steal since the amount they give to themselves from OUR earnigns is not from products or services, rendered, but enslavement through color of law. this is not a product or service produced by them, but by us.. we are paying them to be of service to them... kind of a revelation, when you get it.
 
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I'm not sure using the slave-owning tobacco-farming founders as our epitome of modern governance is useful. Things change, times change, and when we start to see public health problems because of emerging hazards, it is good that we take action to prevent the damage. An entirely unregulated industry that is essentially providing a way to mainline industrial chemicals into the bloodstream needs to monitored. People expect at least a minimum of oversight keeping unreasonably dangerous things off the market. Most people look at the stuff on the shelf and say "they couldn't sell it if it wasn't safe" which right now is not the case. Maybe they should have a program that has two tiers: Safe for the intended use, and Untested and potentially dangerous. Fair warnings with accurate information is really all I want.


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nonameisgood said:
I'm not sure using the slave-owning tobacco-farming founders as our epitome of modern governance is useful. Things change, times change, and when we start to see public health problems because of emerging hazards, it is good that we take action to prevent the damage. An entirely unregulated industry that is essentially providing a way to mainline industrial chemicals into the bloodstream needs to monitored. People expect at least a minimum of oversight keeping unreasonably dangerous things off the market. Most people look at the stuff on the shelf and say "they couldn't sell it if it wasn't safe" which right now is not the case. Maybe they should have a program that has two tiers: Safe for the intended use, and Untested and potentially dangerous. Fair warnings with accurate information is really all I want.


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You have no idea about what you consume .. I assure you. Your food that is regulated by the FDA does not require full ingredient disclosure; food that the US Dept. of Ag. regulates does.
 
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F350 said:
They don't require disclosure of everything......


http://nypost.com/2015/06/11/the-fda-doesnt-care-about-the-mouse-poop-in-your-food/
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Many years ago, I had an uncle who was a Consolidated Mills V.P. He told a similar story wherewith he described the thousands of tons of flour they milled which was 99.9% pure/clean. Still he added, do you have any idea how many tons of rat & mouse feces that yields?........but it is quite unlikely you'll ever buy a bag of flour that has a noticeable concentration.

Maybe that is why good cooks sift their flour. :p
 
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