CASAA Call to Action: These AGs are specious, disingenuous, LIARS, agenda driven, beholding to the all mighty dollar, and have no concern for public health. Appalling. Just a few extracts for your reading pleasure.
“Accordingly, we recommend that the FDA should promptly issue proposed regulations under Sections 906(d)(1) and (4) and any other relevant statutory provisions to ban the non-face-to-face sales of all tobacco products.” This means they want to ban on-line sales via a web site!
“We urge the FDA to ban all characterizing flavors other than tobacco and menthol in newly deemed tobacco products.” Juice is NOT tobacco or a tobacco product! Vaping is NOT smoking. Period!
“As used in this section, flavored tobacco products include e-cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, hookah tobacco, gels, and dissolvables, all of which should be made subject to the Section 907 ban on any characterizing flavor other than tobacco and menthol. Our use of the term characterizing flavors throughout this Comment refers to all characterizing flavors other than tobacco and menthol.” No more flavors! Just ban them all!
“The FDA should include all components and parts of e-cigarettes and electronic alternative tobacco products that may be designed in the future as covered tobacco products, whether or not they contain nicotine. Failure to do so may result in public misuse of the products, access by minors, and inconsistent enforcement. Regulation of components and parts is necessary for the protection of public health.
For these reasons, the FDA should define components and parts to standardize enforcement nationally, prevent confusion in the marketplace, and close any potential loopholes to circumvent compliance with the law. Moreover, the FDA should not exclude components and parts that do not contain nicotine from restrictions on age verification, vending machine sales, and health warnings.” This bans ALL Mods, tanks, RDA, RBA, you name it.
“Examples of components and parts would include but not be limited to e-liquid, e-juice, waxes, herbs, batteries, battery connectors, cartridges, drip tips, drip-tip adapters, atomizers, tanks, tank tubes, cartomizer, rebuildable dripping atomizer (RDA), drip cartridge tips (DCT), microprocessors, memory chips, replacement coils, tubes, caps, RSST (device that allows interchange of parts between different e-cig brands), omnidapters, atomizer tube connectors, airflow caps, tank airflow controllers, fuse, circuit boards, extensions, refilling drip tips, regulators, switches, actuators, LEDs, DIY (do-it-yourself) parts, syringes, e-juice bottles, needle slip tip syringe, needles, gauges, and USB charger.” Are you bloviaters serious. Did you actually read the letter? For example, try and ban a USB charger or a flashlight battery even though you have no authority plus the LIARS that signed this letter could not charge their cell phones and say good by to flashlights. HA!
This letter is jammed packed with bias studies and false statements. Junk science abounds. I’ve only presented some of the highlights. Here is the link to the letter and the signatures of the AGs is located at the end of the document on pages 31-33: http://www.ag.ny.gov/pdfs/FINAL_AG_FDA_Comment_Re_Deeming_Regulations.pdf
Please fight back and contact your AG if they signed this letter. Since I am a resident of Las Vegas, Nevada, I have already contacted the Nevada AG who signed the letter. Regardless, please embrace activism and spread the word and continue to point out how deplorable this letter is to anyone who will listen.