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E-Cigarettes: The New Frontier In War On Smoking

 
 
by Debbie Elliott of NPR

 
Electronic cigarettes imported from China have grown in popularity during the past several years — and that has concerned federal regulators, in part, because so little is known about what is in them.
Preliminary tests by the Food and Drug Administration show that e-cigarettes — battery-powered tubes that deliver a nicotine vapor [...]

FDA Sued Over Electronic Cigarette Embargo

 
 
FDA Sued Over Electronic Cigarette Embargo

A Florida company that imports and distributes so-called electronic cigarettes filed suit yesterday against the Food and Drug Administration, claiming the agency is illegally blocking imports of its product into the United States.
The suit, filed by Smoking Everywhere in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, argues that [...]

FDA smoke screen on e-cigarettes

Cigarette substitute produces no deadly smoke
By Dr. Elizabeth M. Whelan | Thursday, August 6, 2009
 
 
At a time when the government is ostensibly trying to cut health costs, why is it trying to ban something that might help people quit smoking tobacco, perhaps the most devastating health problem in the U.S.?
The Food and [...]

Electronic cigarette makers seek to keep devices out of the FDA’s control

 
 
Electronic cigarettes don’t contain tobacco or tar, but a South Florida company is fighting for its high-tech substitutes to be identified as tobacco products.
Why struggle to be grouped with a product vilified for killing millions of people each year? At least for Smoking Everywhere Inc., it’s a step up from having its product regulated as [...]

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My Take on the FDA vs E-cigs. Why e-cigs shouldn’t have to be banned.

So the seen looks set for e-cigs to banned in America. The FDA fuelled many alarming headlines media last week with the release of some test results which they carried out on nineteen samples of liquid from two e-cig companies which showed:

Certain to…