PMA wants ban on e-cigarettes

[Sarevok]

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And I am pointing out to you that according to you "enticing non smokers to smoke which by the way was the main point of the news" <------ this is a FALSE claim not backed up by studies and research.

Oh by the way, I dont smoke an eggplant, I chopped them and cook them on my stove and eat it. Now don't you do the same?!?!
So next time you see an eggplant and tomato, you might want to stay away from eating it...As you know, the NICOTINE in those can be soooooooooo addictive!

purf!

oops sorry. I meant ecigar. not eggplant

[high_heels]

oops sorry. I meant ecigar. not eggplant

Sorry to burst your bubble of intelligence. But darling, its NOT SMOKING. It's called VAPING! Again its NOT SMOKE, its VAPOR!

Ohhhh I'm so sure you meant ecigar right from the get-go!

*sarcasm in the air

[Sarevok]

Sorry to burst your bubble! But darling, its NOT SMOKING. It's called VAPING! Again its NOT SMOKE, its VAPOR!

Ohhhh I'm so sure you meant ecigar right from the get-go!

*sarcasm in the air

you got me

[ceannix]

^^hahaha kalingaw sa lalis pero sa tinuod lng kung bawal gyud ni ang E-cig hagbay rani gikuha sa market. Parehas rani sya og Shisha sa mga tao nga kahibaw unsa na. Gigamit rani mga taga PMA sa Tobacco industry tycoons aron mahunong ang pagpalit sa E-cig kay dako nig bawas sa ilang kwarta. Basin mao na ni unya ang mupatay sa tobacco industry.

[jude86]

ga libog ko, nganong kung dili ka smoker mo suway suway gyud ka ug e-cig nga naa may Sigarilyo diha sa kilid-kilid nga mapalit ra dayon unless kwartahan ka ganahan ka mag usik usik sa imong sweldo nga hinagu-an para lang lang mo suway ani kay sikat. Maypa ang tinuod nga sigarilyo e-ban pero luoy pud atong mga farmers. d lang ayo ko ka relate kay d man ko manigarilyo. sauna ra. 7 years ago.

[emailroy2002]

don't ban it, put more toxin in it, kanang mamatay ang mosigarilyo hahahahaha!

[bejabbers]

nganu i.ban ang e-cigarette kung hadlok sila mag smoke ang mga batan.on? if ingon ana ang case i.ban nalng ang cigarette...

[Lord_Ac]

Paid by Tobacco Companies mani nga move. Let's not be naive.

[lyledu]

I am a smoker..sakit na sa dughan og sa bulsa.. gahe na kaau akong ubo. I started vaping around 2 weeks ago.. i admit, lahe ra gyd ang lasa at first but after 2 or 3 days ok na.. mura na kog nanigarilyo og tinuod.. and then gradually, i shifted sa lights para lang masatisfy nko ako self in cases nga lami gyd isigarilyo.. karn di na ko makahurot og marlboro 10s sa isa kaadlaw.. slowly, naghinay2 na kog quit. Dako kaau og natabang ang ecig.. humok na akong ubo.. hehehe! Mura man ni testimonial sa radyo oi!

[high_heels]

Inserting this news as fyi.....


QM PROFESSOR CALLS FOR RETHINK ON E-CIGARETTE REGULATION

Tuesday 23 July 2013
Plans to regulate electronic cigarettes as medical devices could jeopardise enormous potential benefits to public health, warns a leading smoking cessation specialist from Queen Mary, University of London.

In a comment piece published today in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, Professor Peter Hajek, director of the Tobacco Dependence Research Unit at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary, calls for medicines regulators to “hold their fire”.

In June the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) announced that e-cigarettes are to be classed as "medicines" under new proposals to tighten up the regulation of nicotine-containing products.

Professor Hajek says: “Compared with hypothetical risks that seem unlikely in view of current knowledge about e-cigarettes, we know that the product e-cigarettes are replacing is seriously dangerous. If any new risks emerge, then appropriately tighter regulation can be implemented.”

E-cigarettes are designed to deliver nicotine without the toxins which are present in tobacco smoke.

Placing e-cigarettes under the same regulation as medical devices now is likely to lead to increased costs and less product innovation, which Professor Hajek argues could ultimately lead to a winning situation for the tobacco industry.

He adds: “Since e-cigarettes are a recreational consumer product that are competing with much more dangerous cigarettes, which are not regulated as medicines, mandatory medicinal regulation is not required for public safety and can harm public health by restricting the ability of e-cigarettes to compete with cigarettes in the marketplace. Excessive regulation of e-cigarettes would protect the market monopoly of cigarettes and have the potential consequences of disease in and death of millions of smokers who were prevented from moving on to the next generation of e-cigarettes.

“For the first time in the history of the tobacco control movement, a realistic possibility is emerging that the tobacco problem might get resolved, and that this could happen with minimal or no government involvement or expenditure. Regulators of medicines should hold their fire.”

source: QM professor calls for rethink on e-cigarette regulation