F E AT U R E
This non-scientific view of the Vaping Industry does not allow for any real movement
forward. Do not get excited if you were an
E-Liquid Manufacturer who got your juice
tested. Because with no real defined STANDARD METHOD OF TESTING, again…
results cannot even readily be compared to
each other, or replicated to reach an ultimate
standard of practice. It is a wash. As are those
results.
tobacco, if you call poisoning your end user a
benefit.
Let alone the fact that if we are now a tobacco product, the bar is pretty low on what END
USER SAFETY EXPECTATIONS are. Or is it a
double standard? You’re tobacco but you
have to have zero carbonyls, plain packaging, no marketing, heavy taxation, answer to
a regulatory body that is threatened by you
but has the power to crush you, but not your
competitors?
These are lives we are affecting. The science
should reflect that. Handing down regulations with no scientific method of determination was reckless abandonment of logic.
Tobacco has swung a big axe
for a big long time… and these
commissions; even countries
have been sued into monetary oblivion at times. Even if
they win, mostly they lose, financially.
Defending yourself against billion and trillion
dollar giants is no cheap feat.
And it appears we are being punched with
the full wrath of years of being impudent with
our competitors. In their overzealous
approach to regulations within our industry,
they have given Tobacco another arena to
champion. It will be interesting to see how
they fair in round two against the giants. Let
the shit show begin.
What is really being regulated at this point,
what we put in our product? We’ve been
deemed tobacco now… essentially we can
put all this in there: Ammonia, Arsenic, Benzene, Butane, Carbon monoxide, Cadmium,
Cyanide, DDT, Ethyl Furoate, Lead, Formaldehyde, Methoprene, Maltitol, Napthalene,
Methyl isocyanate, Polonium.
No wait we cannot yet we are deemed
tobacco, punished as tobacco, heavily regulated as tobacco, with none of the benefits of
We do not want the privilege of killing our
end user, which these commissions have so
blatantly given to the Tobacco industry. But
we would prefer not to be punished as
though we are. And we would prefer to have
the science speak for itself and the integrity
of that science to mean something.
Unfitting of a regulatory board making decisions and recommendations for a massive
populous of people WAS disappointing.
With TPD winding down, and
Phase two rolling in, the industry
needs to take off the blinders,
work together and demand a
fair regulation system. One that
allows the science to thrive, not
just any old method decided by whoever is
doing testing on your product.
It’s comparative to ordering steak well done,
but having to live with the fact that the chef
believes that means red inside because no
real standard exists… WE HAVE A STANDARD FOR COOKING STEAK… I think we
should have one for testing products that go
in our lungs. End of…….
So where will we be next year? We are going
to be in PMTA hell, still cleaning up the mess
from TPD nightmares and fighting for some
semblance of scientific integrity in the industry.
That is the future that is tomorrow today, and
yesterday now.
Improvement in this process, from upload to
practice needs to be brought to task. There
were serious flaws in this Regulation and
they have more than become known. Stand
up for yourself and start asking about next
year, today.
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