Comments on: Special Cigarettes NOT Covered by Smoking Ban http://bunow.bloomu.edu/1121-special-cigarettes-not-covered-by-smoking-ban/ Make Us Part Of Your Daily News Diet Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:53:00 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: DC http://bunow.bloomu.edu/1121-special-cigarettes-not-covered-by-smoking-ban/comment-page-1/#comment-486 DC Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:01:47 +0000 http://bunow.bloomu.edu/?p=1121#comment-486 You are right to be concerned eric, the prospect of them being banned is real and in fact they have already been banned in Denmark already. They have also been restricted for sale in S. korea and some middle eastern countries. Also WHO, the World Health Organisation, is meeting this week in S. Africa to discuss a list of recommendations it will pose to its member nations on how to curtail the sale of cigarettes. Hot on the agenda will also be the Electronic Cigarette. WHO has already had a run-in with the electronic cigarette and it wasnt good as a number of sellers were marketing the electronic cigarette as an NRT or smoking cessation device and using their logo on their sites. WHO put out a <a href="http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2008/pr34/en/" rel="nofollow">press release</a> asking these sellers to remove these claims from all promotional material as there has been no clinical test to proove that these claims are correct. these tests are costly. The pharmaceutical companies has had to pay a lot of money to be able to sell their nicotine gums, patches etc as a NRT's. you can imagine that they wont be too happy if electronic cigarettes suddenly get a free ride and make inroads in their profits. So now a lot of sellers are marketing them as a "tobacco alternative". This means that the FDA won't class them as a drug and also the ATF won't class them as a tobacco product. So the electronic cigarette is really in a sort of limbo for now. But now that it is on WHO's radar and given that it contains a powerful addictive drug and comes in many tempting flavors, you can expect to see some restrictions placed on the product. Are the multitude of Chinese manfacturers who make a version of the electronic cigarette geared up for this and do they have a rigorous teting procedure in place? short answer is no and unfortunately we are all too aware of the deadly procucts that have slipped by check-points and made it into our living-rooms from China, from dolls to pet-food. But all this is about to play out in the coming year. After becoming interested in all this and being an elctronic cigarette user for the past 6 months, I decided to set up site so people could follow all the information and news reports that are coming out about the electronic cigarette at <a href="http://www.e-cignews.com" rel="nofollow">E-cig News</a>.com. Its a social news site so anyone can submit a link to something of interest. so far i have been updating it daily and have been adding links to all the documents, information and news reports and videos that i have come accross and hopefully others will do the same. I am also worried that electronic cigarettes will be banned as for the first time in 10 years, i have been tobacco free which i never thought would be so easily possible. You are right to be concerned eric, the prospect of them being banned is real and in fact they have already been banned in Denmark already. They have also been restricted for sale in S. korea and some middle eastern countries.

Also WHO, the World Health Organisation, is meeting this week in S. Africa to discuss a list of recommendations it will pose to its member nations on how to curtail the sale of cigarettes. Hot on the agenda will also be the Electronic Cigarette. WHO has already had a run-in with the electronic cigarette and it wasnt good as a number of sellers were marketing the electronic cigarette as an NRT or smoking cessation device and using their logo on their sites.

WHO put out a press release asking these sellers to remove these claims from all promotional material as there has been no clinical test to proove that these claims are correct. these tests are costly. The pharmaceutical companies has had to pay a lot of money to be able to sell their nicotine gums, patches etc as a NRT’s. you can imagine that they wont be too happy if electronic cigarettes suddenly get a free ride and make inroads in their profits.

So now a lot of sellers are marketing them as a “tobacco alternative”. This means that the FDA won’t class them as a drug and also the ATF won’t class them as a tobacco product. So the electronic cigarette is really in a sort of limbo for now. But now that it is on WHO’s radar and given that it contains a powerful addictive drug and comes in many tempting flavors, you can expect to see some restrictions placed on the product. Are the multitude of Chinese manfacturers who make a version of the electronic cigarette geared up for this and do they have a rigorous teting procedure in place? short answer is no and unfortunately we are all too aware of the deadly procucts that have slipped by check-points and made it into our living-rooms from China, from dolls to pet-food. But all this is about to play out in the coming year.

After becoming interested in all this and being an elctronic cigarette user for the past 6 months, I decided to set up site so people could follow all the information and news reports that are coming out about the electronic cigarette at E-cig News.com. Its a social news site so anyone can submit a link to something of interest. so far i have been updating it daily and have been adding links to all the documents, information and news reports and videos that i have come accross and hopefully others will do the same. I am also worried that electronic cigarettes will be banned as for the first time in 10 years, i have been tobacco free which i never thought would be so easily possible.

]]> By: eric2009 http://bunow.bloomu.edu/1121-special-cigarettes-not-covered-by-smoking-ban/comment-page-1/#comment-476 eric2009 Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:08:59 +0000 http://bunow.bloomu.edu/?p=1121#comment-476 Do you think these will be banned. I mean if i know if i was philip morris who invented the <a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9F05E1D8103EF937A15753C1A961958260" rel="nofollow">failed accord</a> or pfizer, i would want them banned to save my products and they have a large lobby. plus this things are from china. i bet sooner or later something will be found it them that is dangerous. Do you think these will be banned. I mean if i know if i was philip morris who invented the failed accord or pfizer, i would want them banned to save my products and they have a large lobby. plus this things are from china. i bet sooner or later something will be found it them that is dangerous.

]]> By: Katie Taylor http://bunow.bloomu.edu/1121-special-cigarettes-not-covered-by-smoking-ban/comment-page-1/#comment-321 Katie Taylor Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:03:10 +0000 http://bunow.bloomu.edu/?p=1121#comment-321 Ash there are tons of different flavors...but dont start smoking, okay? :) Ash there are tons of different flavors…but dont start smoking, okay? :)

]]> By: Ashley Tharp http://bunow.bloomu.edu/1121-special-cigarettes-not-covered-by-smoking-ban/comment-page-1/#comment-320 Ashley Tharp Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:20:19 +0000 http://bunow.bloomu.edu/?p=1121#comment-320 thats really cool, I would love to see one in person thats really cool, I would love to see one in person

]]> By: Ashley Wood http://bunow.bloomu.edu/1121-special-cigarettes-not-covered-by-smoking-ban/comment-page-1/#comment-316 Ashley Wood Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:13:43 +0000 http://bunow.bloomu.edu/?p=1121#comment-316 wow, this is crazy. so do they have coffee and chocolate flavor cigarettes? wow, this is crazy. so do they have coffee and chocolate flavor cigarettes?

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