Feds rip Juul for claiming its
e-cigarette is safer than smoking
Associated Press,
by
Staff
Original Article
Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk,
9/9/2019 2:08:07 PM
Washington - Federal health authorities on Monday blasted vaping giant Juul for illegally pitching its electronic cigarettes as a safer alternative to smoking and ordered the company to stop making unproven claims for its products.
The Food and Drug Administration also upped its scrutiny of a number of key aspects of Juul’s business, telling the company to turn over documents on its marketing, educational programs and nicotine formula.
The FDA action increases the legal pressure on the nation’s best-selling vaping company, which has been besieged by scrutiny from state and federal officials since a recent surge in underage vaping.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
IowaDad 9/9/2019 2:14:12 PM (No. 175511)
This shows the moral bankruptcy of the medical profession, which has stood silent through the legalization of pot and vaping, and has contributed nothing to the debate about red flag laws or abortion, but greedily accepts money from every business and government program it can find.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna 9/9/2019 2:18:52 PM (No. 175515)
I don't smoke but I can smell the influence of Big Tobacco here.
This sudden dance looks very well choreographed to me.
Quy bono ?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
toddh 9/9/2019 2:29:37 PM (No. 175526)
Vaping is safer than the FDA.
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Most people suffering severe health issues from vaping have been using marijuana oil.
That product is still unregulated and inconsistent in quality. Each new purchase equals a new gamble. So, that oil plus incessant smoking will often make you sick over time.
Too much of any type of smoke is not good for you. Many like to pretend that ingestion of marijuana smoke is 'harmless' because it's 'natural'. B. and S. Use moderation and common sense!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
greggojo 9/9/2019 2:45:10 PM (No. 175536)
Well, the FDA should do the research. Clearly putting any foreign substance into your lungs is not healthy, but research should be done, and it seems to me that since these e cigarettes do not burn, and do not contain tobacco and are missing the 40 carcinogens that tobacco contains, they likely are in fact more healthy (and less unhealthy) than regular cigarettes. America is fast reaching the point when ALL products will be taken off the market due to health or environmental concerns. Except for those promoted by the Left of course. Notice how the very real dangers of pot are ignored.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Illinois Mom 9/9/2019 2:53:02 PM (No. 175543)
Never smoked anything but a fish in my life... but from what I understand the people who are dying are not using the products from the Vape manufacturers but knock offs...most containing some type of oil. Essential oils and oils containing cannabis will eventually kill you because oil in the lungs is not compatible with life. Once it's in there it clogs the lungs and leads to a pneumonia with no cure. If a person survives they will have lung problems the rest of their lives.
About thirty years ago the sixteen year old daughter of a friend decided to "huff" aerosols to get high. She chose PAM the non-stick coating used in cooking. Immediately afterward she had trouble breathing and died a really horrible death. Should there have been a ban placed on PAM?
I would think that sounding the alarm on Vaping any kind of oil should be the first thing to do. Then study the other long term effects. Inhaling water vapor should not be a real problem.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
DVC 9/9/2019 4:02:35 PM (No. 175588)
Actually, since it doesn't have the random chemical byproducts of combustion of tobacco leaves, various toxi tars and ashes, it HAS to be safer, delivering pretty much straight nicotine, rather than nicotine in a toxic stew of unknown products of partial combustion of leaves, flavorants and whatever else is in a cigarette's tobacco mix.
Not a smoker, was never a smoker, but it seems pretty obvious that without real SMOKE, it has to be safer.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 9/9/2019 5:20:37 PM (No. 175655)
I predict that in a few years people will figure out that smoking marijuana causes lung cancer in addition to many other health problems. Yet states are rushing to legalize marijuana. These times don't make good common sense.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
HoneymoonGal 9/9/2019 5:22:18 PM (No. 175658)
I've used vaping to quit smoking. I feel 100% better after making that change. Of course, I don't vape pot or other black market stuff, only normal stuff from reputable manufacturers. I have no smoker's cough, I don't get short of breath, I don't stink, I could go on and on. It's not meant for kids. It's to help adults quit smoking. It's clearly cut into the tobacco industry's profits, hence the constant stream of scare stories about it.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Az Roadrunner 9/9/2019 5:44:08 PM (No. 175684)
In April 2016, Great Britains Royal College of Physicians finished a 5 yr. study called "Nicotine Without Smoke", Tobacco Harm Reduction. It stated that vaping was over 90% safer than smoking and sent a circular to all physicians in Great Britain to get their smoking patients to quit cigarettes and start vaping instead. The publication number is e/SBN 978-1-86016 600-6 and 601-3. That being said, underage kids shouldn't vape, BUT, as a 61 yr. old former smoker, vaping did the trick for me and now 3 yrs. later, I am both smoke and vape free. I only bought quality devices and batteries from reputable vape shops and the same for vaping liquids that were 3rd. party certified and manufactured in an FDA approved environment. I had no batteries explode, or devices catch fire. The last year of vaping, I vaped at a zero nicotine level then just set it down and walked away from it. I feel that the more people get educated about vaping, the devices and how to properly care for them, the better experience you will have in quitting smoking. Does it work for everyone? No, but what does 100% of the time... There also is several tobacco companies getting in on vaping and selling vape products. If most people quit smoking, the Gov't would lose millions in tax money, so vaping is to some degree, being scapegoated. Look the study up, educate yourself with factual material, and then make an informed decision.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 9/9/2019 8:20:32 PM (No. 175789)
I'm sick of Juul's full page newspaper ads for their product disguised as anti-smoking ads.
I'm tired of seeing their ads on TV.
If cigarette ads are banned, these should be too.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
PChristopher 9/10/2019 1:10:04 AM (No. 175912)
Saying that vaping is safer than smoking is akin to saying that strychnine is safer than cyanide. You people need to get a grip on reality.
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This is going to effect a lot of advertising I hear during talk radio. Doesn't Sean H. swear by these?