I originally posted the following information and commentary onto my Facebook wall…
Well, Back to Smoking: FDA Bans 99 Percent of E-Cigarettes:
https://fee.org/articles/well-back-to-smoking-fda-bans-99-percent-of-e-cigarettes/
(Guy Bentley) The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published long-awaited rules Thursday that could ban 99 percent of e-cigarette products and wreck industry innovation for years to come.
Passed in 2009, the Tobacco Control Act says all e-cigarette products released after February 15, 2007, (predicate date) will have to go through the Pre-Market Tobacco Applications process (PMTA). FDA officials claim they cannot change the predicate date.
The PMTA is ruinously expensive and can cost millions of dollars per product and by the FDA’s own admission will take more than 1,700 hours for an applicant to complete.
Since almost all vapor products on the market were released after February 2007, hardly any will avoid a PMTA and almost no businesses, with the exception of big tobacco companies, will be able to bear the regulatory burden.
(Read entire article here…)
My Commentary: Government: regulating competition out of existence for big business…