Regulations To Crush Health Innovation : Progressives Hate E-Cigarettes

Why is it that agencies can forgo reality for bias - Is this just more politics of corruption that has infested our government? It's in all agencies now that the progressive socialist had been power for the last 6 years. The IRS? The DOJ? The EPA? There is no limit to what the progressive will go to gain control of all aspects of living in our country. The ideology of 'by any means necessary' drives them agenda.

The progressives are making us all 'enemies of the state' for seeking to improve their personal freedom to acquire prosperity through innovation.

E-Cigarette Regulations Are Counterproductive
Source: Michael Marlow, "FDA Regulatory Expansion Jeopardizes Public Health," Heartland Institute, November 10, 2014.

November 14, 2014

The Food and Drug Administration's proposed expansion of regulatory power to include e-cigarettes could endanger Americans' health, argues Michael Marlow, professor of economics at California Polytechnic State University.

What's the problem with regulating e-cigarettes? Unlike traditional tobacco products, e-cigarettes do not contain tobacco. Instead, they contain a nicotine vapor, making them much safer than traditional cigarettes. Consider:

• According to the American Medical Association, the lack of tobacco makes e-cigarette vapor far less dangerous than secondhand smoke from traditional tobacco cigarettes.
• E-cigarettes can help smokers quit; between 7 and 20 percent of smokers have been successful in using e-cigarettes to quit their smoking habit.

According to Marlow, the FDA intends to prevent manufacturers from marketing e-cigarettes as safer than traditional tobacco products, and health regulations prevent manufacturers from telling consumers that their products lack tobacco.

Rather than improving health, e-cigarette regulations threaten it; e-cigarettes a much safer form of nicotine intake than traditional cigarettes, and they offers current smokers a way to quit smoking tobacco. Marlow notes that there are 32 million smokers who say they want to quit smoking.