Today's hearing on youth vaping is well-intended, but it clearly seeks to strong-arm @FDATobacco to peremptorily ban many #ecig products by subverting its science-based regulatory review process. My testimony urges Congress not to politicize the process: https://drive.google.com/file/d/16iZPFGcgugy-rzOIEz8PU7GkDuMEagMg/view?usp=sharing https://twitter.com/OversightDems/status/1407684872932573190
HAPPENING SOON: At 10 AM, Subcommittee Chair @CongressmanRaja will demand answers from FDA Commissioner Woodcock regarding the youth #vaping epidemic and search for solutions to address this nationwide health issue.
WATCH LIVE:
https://youtu.be/wVbfjsCZ_tE
Back before COVID-19 took over the news cycle, Democrats and Republicans seized on a lung condition caused by illicit THC cartridges to try to ban vape flavors.
@GovRonDeSantis saw through the lies, bucked his own party, and vetoed a flavor ban.
https://reason.org/commentary/florida-protected-public-health-by-rejecting-vaping-ban/
“Consumers all over the world are becoming aware of the opportunities offered by safer nicotine products, and innovations in the market will, I believe, lead to the eventual obsolescence of combustible cigarettes.”
https://tobaccoreporter.com/2021/06/21/global-forum-on-nicotine-focuses-on-harm-reduction/ #GFN21 #HarmReduction
"The documents, provided by an anonymous source, comprise 128 pages of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids’ (CTFK) 2017 strategy for LMICs."
Big story by @michelleminton of @ceidotorg on Bloomberg money perverting public health.
https://cei.org/blog/exposed-bloombergs-anti-tobacco-meddling-in-developing-countries/ #HarmReduction
We are horrified and outraged by the consequences of laws we've encouraged and lobbied for. https://twitter.com/TobaccoFreeKids/status/1404536501828993027
Our statement on the disturbing law enforcement incident that occurred in Ocean City, MD.
Two insane American things come together: (1) the moral and now legal panic about vaping; (2) the casual violence and extreme escalation propensity of routine policing. https://twitter.com/DrRJKavanagh/status/1404220794096455684
Police in Ocean City Maryland tasered a 17-year-old teenager after they accused him of vaping yesterday.
This is disgusting. And all for the 'crime' of vaping outdoors in an open air environment.
(Police reports indicate the person who was tasered is 19 years old, but that doesn't make their response any better.)
Police in Ocean City Maryland tasered a 17-year-old teenager after they accused him of vaping yesterday.
So, will any of the journalists and newspapers who confidently asserted that vaping increases COVID risk revisit that claim in light of this new study? Sample of nearly 70,000 patients at Mayo Clinic, no association between vaping and COVID. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/21501327211024391