Hypocracy, democracy or apologistic

There is much out there about the cigarette industry. There is much out there about SNUS. There is much out there about the relative risks. There is a poverty of knowledge about vaping.  Of course vaping is quite new, nebulizers with PG or VG have been with us over 60 years- just not with nicotine as the inhalant. To date there has been no definitive answer to vaping nicotine and its effect. There are scatterred and at times contredictory articles and many self reported success stories. Vaping lacks the research needed and by several accounts attempts to undertake these studies have been blocked on moral and ethical grounds by IRB's (Investigational Review Boards) and the FDA.  The inhalation of tobacco smoke is a known health hazard. R.J, Reynold's own Mission Statement reads:

In other words:

Yes our products kill, but we are working on it.
And of significant self-disclosure- nicotine not shown to be a significant health risk. It is the inhaled smoke that is damaging.

Vaping is nicotine without the smoke. Yet it is scrutinized for many reasons.  I remember in a Woody Allen movie the comment that nicotine  was healthy it was the presentation that killed you.  The above is an apologist's rendering, brilliantly written. Let us hope that the vaping community can come together and create a document as such (without apology), create a venders organization that can guide the industry into some standardization and use truths and accuracy as its content.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law - Sir Winston Churchill

A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality. - Sir Winston Churchill

A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government - Thomas Jefferson

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty - Ronald Reagan

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting - Buddha

I pray that we start and that we go all the way.

10 Reasons not to Vape (switch to e-cigs)

10 Reasons not to Vape

1. They don't fit behind your ear for that cool 50's look.
2. You can't use," can I bum a light " as a pick-up line at a bar.
3. You can't flick them out the car window at night and see those neat trails.
4. They may cause you to get to work late because you don't wake up hacking up a lung.
5. They don't give you that manly smell to your clothes.
6. You don't get to carry that really cool Jeff Gordon lighter.
7. You can't make the excuse that you are too short winded to help a neighbour move.
8. You don't get Marlboro coupons to trade for that neat Marlboro Leather Jacket.
9. They don't burn holes in your clothes so you can't use that as an excuse for a shopping spree.
10. The FDA hasn't approved them

Replacement Therapy- Tobacco: Some men see things as they are and ask‘Why?’.I...

"Some men see things as they are and ask ‘Why?’.

I dream things that never were and ask, ‘Why not?’. –Robert F. Kennedy Our FDA does no..."

Some men see things as they are and ask

‘Why?’.

I dream things that never were and ask,

‘Why not?’.

–Robert F. Kennedy

Our FDA does not dream- it associates and it appears to conclude a tobacco linked entity is tobacco, it sees things as they are in a concrete manner, It always asks Why? It forgets that our government agencies are servants of the people- they are not God and not placed there to put the people in servitude. Regulation is defined by the Oxford Dictionary: a rule or directive made and maintained by an authority. Democracy is a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state. In a democratic state regulations are a mandate of the people, they are based on preservation of the public good. Democracy must be based on an unbiased and malleable frame of reference that bends to the situation it faces. The concept of the reasonable man and how the system of laws and regulations must be fluid, just and not oppose that which appears obvious.

Marijuana, opiates, alcohol, barbiturates and other psychotropic agents, as viewed by the reasonable man, may cause harm to others if ingested or available in an unregulated manner. Caffeine on the other hand in the eyes of the reasonable man, does not show evidence of harm to others if ingested. Nicotine, in itself would fall into the caffeine class, if extricated from the common vehicle from which it is obtained, tobacco. Tobacco as a vehicle for the ingestion of nicotine does pose a problematic question. Tobacco, when burned, has evidential studies showing harm to others if passively exposed to “secondary smoke” and more recently “third hand tobacco residue”.



Tobacco and tobacco cessation products are perfectly legal and regulated. The products produced to treat tobacco abuse have evolved into a profitable industry whose products are used many times as maintenance rather than cessation agents. Various medications bupropion relabeled as Zyban, Chantrix, Champix and others have been utilized to aid in smoking cessation. Tobacco smoke and the thousands of chemicals associated with curing and combustion of leaves has obviously become a public health issue. People willingly continue the habitual use of tobacco despite cancer, pulmonary and atherosclerotic side effects.



So the FDA assumes nicotine is the problem and asks why add another nicotine vehicle to the publics armamentarium. They ask why allow people a another means of obtaining nicotine. Would not RFK had said why not?



Nicotine is a mild stimulant which improves attention, concentration and has been shown to decrease tumor growth in certain genetic breast cancers. Nicotine is pleasurable and not in itself tumorigenic. Electronic cigarettes may avoid many of the risks of tobacco, have yet to be shown to be any great health issue and address many of the issues related to tobacco. Yet the FDA has taken hold of these maintenance devices and had associated them with tobacco (not by their choice).



Smoking must be seen as a multifactorial behavior. There is the acquisition of Nicotine, there is the hand and mouth behavior of smoking, there is the “smoke blowing and inhaling” and there is the association of the behavior with the formal oral smoke production.



Alcohol is a good example of the paradox of a substance. In limited quantities it is pleasurable and has been shown to have positive health effects. In excess it can be an agent that impairs judgment, can endanger the public (DUI) and can lead to lethal physical conditions, both acutely and chronically.



Nicotine is a substance that has a fairly low LD50 that is still much higher than common use. It has been added to gums, inhalers, SNUS, and inhalants in efforts to counter withdrawal and lead to tobacco smoke elimination.



The advent of the electronic cigarette adds a dimension to nicotine administration that markedly limits exposure to second hand smoke and the numerous toxins in tobacco. It replaces “tar” nicotine delivery from traditional tobacco with vapor inhaled nicotine in a VG/PG medium. Is it safe? A difficult question. Is it tolerated by smokers? the answer must be yes. Should it be regulated? Yes- but not for the reason one would expect. It should be monitored for purity and lack of toxic additives. Vendors should have guidelines for certain impurities and test for diacetyl contaminants.



Is it a cessation device-no. Can people stop vaping and therefore lead to abstinence-yes. The reasonable man would think this. As as obese man change his diet to lose weight, so a vapor could decrease nicotine content and lessen nicotine exposure. Is that the premise for this product-no.



Personal testimonials speak for the benefits in individual experiences. I have personally chewed nicotine gum, used patches, nasal sprays and Chantix. The gum actually increased my nicotine use as it was accepted and I used it more frequently, Chantrix caused severe mood swings, nasal sprays led to nosebleeds and frustration and patches caused severe skin reactions,



Six months ago I started vaping. I have not had an “analogue” cigarette since. I breath better and do not snore at night. I don’t wheeze, I don’t cough and I feel more energy and do not lose my breath going up stairs. My personal experience is matched by the observation of others.



So would not RFK dream and say why not? I think yes.



Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.



Cucumbers were recently recalled for Salmonella. This is the job of the FDA.



If the liquid vehicle for nicotine from a vendor showed impurities- it too could be recalled.



My life has changed for the better.



John Connell

Our Cells are as different as our personalities

In the course of Human responses to the effects of the world, we have all seen the differences in how we react to the same situation.  When my last dog died I was upset for weeks, KoKo was a part of the family.  After several months I ended up with two rescue bulldogs that were living under a shed, worm infested and starving. That was almost two years ago and if someone asks me about my family, Buddha and Ellie are memtioned as if I had 6 and not 4 children.

Then to other's, there animal dies and they are off to the pet store the next morning.  Neither of those is an incorrect response, they just are what they are.



Was online with a beautiful and passionate woman who had lost her mother to pancreatic cancer. Tobacco has multiple cancer inducing agents that have been blamed since the 50's for this action. That is a fact- yet still we know only the partial story of what are the mutagenic agents and we are seeing 60 year smokers at 3 packs a day not succumb to cancer and 30 year olds with minor (if there is a term) tobacco use die of the disease.  We are learning of genetic differences and family linkages to both extremes. So do we develop genetic markers to define can smoke? Of course not, the 80 year old died of pancreatic cancer- a disease linked to smoking.



Remember the old Eagles lyric- "We are all just prisoners here of our own device".



There is a genetic mutation in some women that greatly puts them at risk for breast cancer, whether they use tobacco or not,  we recommend very young in life bilateral mastectomy because we have elucidated the gene that is present in these women.



So with Lung and Pancreatic tumours. Nicotine has a different effect on tobacco induced cancers.  In a recent study observation lung cancer patients were shown to have no increase in the growth rate when NRT (Nicotine Replacement Therapy) was administered.  The tumors did not change in size, rate of metastases or growth rate.  This is not true of Pancreatic tumors which rapidly proliferate if the person contines nicotine exposure in any manner.



Genetics arises again.  Nicotine has a a binding protein with multipleforms, some of which respond to nicotine by enhancing tumor growth.  Here nicotine acts as a promoter or accelerator of tumor spread.  At this point I emphasize tumor spread not tumor production.



So here is the dilemna (one of them), frame of reference.  Nicotine is likely to shorten the lifespan of pancreatic cancer patients if exposure continues after thetumor developes.



The conclusion of some given half the knowledge is that nicotine is a fervent carcinogen.  Tobacco smoking is the probable carcinogen and the numerous mutagenic agents within leaf tobacco smoke (and some snuffs, SNUS..).  Nicotine is the unfortunate agent that acts as an accelerator in the pancrease.



So there are two findings and NRT or another form of minimal chemical contaminated nicotine used by vapors (inhaled droplet based nicotine) can be called a serious health problem or one that seems to be minimally harmful.



Pick your agenda and you have a weapon to supporrt NRT and vaping or information that shows it has a detrimental effect. It is a cyclic argument.  A no real win. 



My puppies, when they die will cause a different reaction in me than someone else's puppy's death.  Much more later on this.  Work is calling. 

Replacement Therapy- Tobacco: Some men see things as they are and ask‘Why?’.I...

"Some men see things as they are and ask ‘Why?’.

I dream things that never were and ask, ‘Why not?" –Robert F. Kennedy.

There is a concept that is deemed the collective consciousness.  It is a rather

 

Our FDA does not dream- it associates and it appears to conclude a tobacco linked entity is tobacco, it sees things as they are in a concrete manner, It always asks Why? It forgets that our government agencies are servants of the people- they are not God and not placed there to put the people in servitude. Regulation is defined by the Oxford Dictionary: a rule or directive made and maintained by an authority. Democracy is a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state. In a democratic state regulations are a mandate of the people, they are based on preservation of the public good. Democracy must be based on an unbiased and malleable frame of reference that bends to the situation it faces. The concept of the reasonable man and how the system of laws and regulations must be fluid, just and not oppose that which appears obvious.

Marijuana, opiates, alcohol, barbiturates and other psychotropic agents, as viewed by the reasonable man, may cause harm to others if ingested or available in an unregulated manner. Caffeine on the other hand in the eyes of the reasonable man, does not show evidence of harm to others if ingested. Nicotine, in itself would fall into the caffeine class, if extricated from the common vehicle from which it is obtained, tobacco. Tobacco as a vehicle for the ingestion of nicotine does pose a problematic question. Tobacco, when burned, has evidential studies showing harm to others if passively exposed to “secondary smoke” and more recently “third hand tobacco residue”.



Tobacco and tobacco cessation products are perfectly legal and regulated. The products produced to treat tobacco abuse have evolved into a profitable industry whose products are used many times as maintenance rather than cessation agents. Various medications bupropion relabeled as Zyban, Chantrix, Champix and others have been utilized to aid in smoking cessation. Tobacco smoke and the thousands of chemicals associated with curing and combustion of leaves has obviously become a public health issue. People willingly continue the habitual use of tobacco despite cancer, pulmonary and atherosclerotic side effects.



So the FDA assumes nicotine is the problem and asks why add another nicotine vehicle to the publics armamentarium. They ask why allow people a another means of obtaining nicotine. Would not RFK had said why not?



Nicotine is a mild stimulant which improves attention, concentration and has been shown to decrease tumor growth in certain genetic breast cancers. Nicotine is pleasurable and not in itself tumorigenic. Electronic cigarettes may avoid many of the risks of tobacco, have yet to be shown to be any great health issue and address many of the issues related to tobacco. Yet the FDA has taken hold of these maintenance devices and had associated them with tobacco (not by their choice).



Smoking must be seen as a multifactorial behavior. There is the acquisition of Nicotine, there is the hand and mouth behavior of smoking, there is the “smoke blowing and inhaling” and there is the association of the behavior with the formal oral smoke production.



Alcohol is a good example of the paradox of a substance. In limited quantities it is pleasurable and has been shown to have positive health effects. In excess it can be an agent that impairs judgment, can endanger the public (DUI) and can lead to lethal physical conditions, both acutely and chronically.



Nicotine is a substance that has a fairly low LD50 that is still much higher than common use. It has been added to gums, inhalers, SNUS, and inhalants in efforts to counter withdrawal and lead to tobacco smoke elimination.



The advent of the electronic cigarette adds a dimension to nicotine administration that markedly limits exposure to second hand smoke and the numerous toxins in tobacco. It replaces “tar” nicotine delivery from traditional tobacco with vapor inhaled nicotine in a VG/PG medium. Is it safe? A difficult question. Is it tolerated by smokers? the answer must be yes. Should it be regulated? Yes- but not for the reason one would expect. It should be monitored for purity and lack of toxic additives. Vendors should have guidelines for certain impurities and test for diacetyl contaminants.



Is it a cessation device-no. Can people stop vaping and therefore lead to abstinence-yes. The reasonable man would think this. As as obese man change his diet to lose weight, so a vapor could decrease nicotine content and lessen nicotine exposure. Is that the premise for this product-no.



Personal testimonials speak for the benefits in individual experiences. I have personally chewed nicotine gum, used patches, nasal sprays and Chantix. The gum actually increased my nicotine use as it was accepted and I used it more frequently, Chantrix caused severe mood swings, nasal sprays led to nosebleeds and frustration and patches caused severe skin reactions,



Six months ago I started vaping. I have not had an “analogue” cigarette since. I breath better and do not snore at night. I don’t wheeze, I don’t cough and I feel more energy and do not lose my breath going up stairs. My personal experience is matched by the observation of others.



So would not RFK dream and say why not? I think yes.



Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.



Cucumbers were recently recalled for Salmonella. This is the job of the FDA.



If the liquid vehicle for nicotine from a vendor showed impurities- it too could be recalled.



My life has changed for the better.



John Connell

FDA- The Fox in the Chicken House

Ddoesn't it seem a little strange that the agency that is given certain authority over tobacco and replacements is also strongly anti-tobacco and lukewarm on replacements.  They are currently marketing the largest anti-tobacco (not just smoking) and most gruesome program, yet they are given power over what they deem safer or less harmful.  They have the power to control what enters the market and oversight of what is added (such as flavourings in vaping products).It can formulate generalized warnings, create its own scientific advisory committees.  It can decide what is a tobacco product and has given time lines for entities to be grandfathered into the market.

It cannot- ban an entire class of products.
               require the total elimination of nicotine from tobacco products.
               make tobacco a prescription drug
               it cannot regulate farming.

See http://www.fda.gov/tobaccoproducts/default.htm for more information on their official sight.

The tobacco product as consumed in direct leaf form, is heavily laden with carcinogens, nicotine not being one of them.  To lump vaping products into the tobacco class may be a necessary evil, but to subject nicotine solutions to the same labeling and regulatory statutes is at least premature.

Cigarettes are carcinogenic, nicotine has not been shown to have this property.

How long and how painful will the demands of FDA testing of vaping liquids be- no one knows.  It is obvious from their suit to make vaping tools drug delivery systems the following fears are in the eyes of the FDA:

• If a nicotine product is shown safer, they lose power.
• The use of a substance not meant to be a cessation device, is not in their thinkable agendas.
• They will be forced to monitor closely drugs and medications for cessation and the serious and dangerous side effects of these agents that in comparison to tobacco were seemed safer (Chantix!)
• They'll lose funding jobs and prestige

So the fox is in the chicken house and must make liquid nicotine vaporizers and juice an example.

Our job is to fight honestly, self regulate and be pro-active.
We must "sell" through truth and studies that our claims of less health damage are true.
We must monitor ourselves first and set of guidelines for manufacturers to follow.

There is nothing like a good offense.


zjohn

Our Cells are as different as our personalities

In the course of Human responses to the effects of the world, we have all seen the differences in how we react to the same situation.  When my dog died I was upset for weeks, KoKo was a part of the family.  After several years I ended up with two rescue bulldogs that were living under a shed, worm infested and starving. That was almost two years ago and if someone asks me about my family, Buddha and Ellie are mentioned as if I had 6 and not 4 children.
Then to others, their animal dies and they are off to the pet store the next morning.  Neither of those is an incorrect response, they just are what they are.

Was online with a beautiful and passionate woman who had lost her mother to pancreatic cancer. Tobacco has multiple cancer inducing agents that have been blamed since the 50's for this action. That is a fact- yet still we know only the partial story of what are the mutagenic agents in tobacco and what factors cause variations in cancer vulnerability. We see 60 year smokers at 3 packs a day not succumb to cancer and 30 year olds with minor (if there is a term) tobacco use die of the disease.  We are learning of genetic differences and family linkages to both extremes. So do we develop genetic markers to define who can smoke? Not a high research priority. Do we explore the markers that make people susceptible to cancer, tobacco or not related- I think so.

Remember the old Eagles lyric- "We are all just prisoners here of our own device".

There is a genetic mutation in some women that greatly puts them at risk for breast cancer, whether they use tobacco or not,  we recommend very young in life bilateral mastectomy because we have elucidated the gene that is present in these women.

So with Lung and Pancreatic tumours. Nicotine has a different effect on tobacco induced cancers.  In a recent study lung cancer patients were shown to have no increase in the growth rate when NRT (Nicotine Replacement Therapy) was administered.  The tumors did not change in size, rate of metastases or growth rate.  This is not true of Pancreatic tumors which rapidly proliferate if the person continues nicotine exposure in any manner.

Genetics arises again.  Nicotine has a a binding protein with multiple forms, some of which respond to nicotine by enhancing tumor growth.  Here nicotine acts as a promoter or accelerator of tumor spread.  At this point I emphasize tumor spread not tumor production.

So here is the dilemma (one of them), frame of reference.  Nicotine is likely to shorten the lifespan of pancreatic cancer patients if exposure continues after the tumor develops.

The conclusion of some given half the knowledge is that nicotine is a fervent carcinogen.  Tobacco smoking is the probable carcinogen and the numerous mutagenic agents within leaf tobacco smoke (and some snuffs, SNUS..).  Nicotine is the unfortunate agent that acts as an accelerator in the pancreas.

So there are two findings and NRT or another form of minimal chemical contaminated nicotine used by vapors (inhaled droplet based nicotine) can be called a serious health problem or one that seems to be minimally harmful.

Pick your agenda and you have a weapon to support NRT and vaping or information that shows it has a detrimental effect. It is a cyclic argument.  A no real win.

My puppies, when they die will cause a different reaction in me than someone else

The argument begins and what to make of it.  Tobacco is not nicotine, it contains nicotine. Nicotine is the primary agent in tobacco that is sought out by tobacco users.  We also know that tobacco is harmful to the body and to bystanders.  Nicotine is a stimulant and also has effects on blood vessel growth and apoptosis the  programmed cell death, that is a normal component of the development and health of multicellular organisms.  Nicotine inhibits this, prolongs cell life (wrinkles).  Some of these effects are positive (cardiac revascularization), some unknown (apoptosis) and some problematic (pancreatic tumour growth).

Tobacco has been blamed for millions of deaths. Nicotine is blamed by association. This conclusion requires a new definition. People will continue to smoke. NRT's help- but not as officially prescribed.  Many if not most use NRT's off label.  More frequently, to block cravings when tobacco cannot be used or to replace tobacco permanently.

So now we come to vaping, the inhalation of liquid droplets vaporized by a heat coil and used as a vehicle to carry nicotine into the body.  It mimics the behavioural use of cigarettes, yet has no real tar or additives other than PG/VG as vol/vol mixes and flavorings.  It is now untaxed, less studied and unregulated. It is well tolerated and growing quickly.  It has also been banned in several countries.

What is a person to think.  Some say it is the safe smoke, Some would call them an adolescent entry level drugSounds like the 60's and THC.

Legislation against it is springing up, the word is out.

Remember nicotine is not considered a tumor inducer, it is a promoter in some circumstances.

Recently the FDA attempted to ban Nicotine vapor inhalers except as a delivery device for smoking cessation. Most vapors are former smokers who have adopted this mechanism for nicotine administration. The government judicial system removed this classification and made it z tobacco product.

It all cycles. Let us hope the sanity of the use of nicotine vapor is deregulated or at least fairly regulated.



Tlll the sky clears John  More next post.

Replacement Therapy- Tobacco: Some men see things as they are and ask‘Why?’.I...

Replacement Therapy- Tobacco:
Some men see things as they are and ask
‘Why?’.
I...: "Some men see things as they are and ask ‘Why?’. I dream things that never were and ask, ‘Why not?’. –Robert F. Kennedy Our FDA does no..."

Some men see things as they are and ask
‘Why?’.
I dream things that never were and ask,
‘Why not?’.
–Robert F. Kennedy
Our FDA does not dream- it associates and it appears to conclude a tobacco linked entity is tobacco, it sees things as they are in a concrete manner, It always asks Why? It forgets that our government agencies are servants of the people- they are not God and not placed there to put the people in servitude. Regulation is defined by the Oxford Dictionary: a rule or directive made and maintained by an authority. Democracy is a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state. In a democratic state regulations are a mandate of the people, they are based on preservation of the public good. Democracy must be based on an unbiased and malleable frame of reference that bends to the situation it faces. The concept of the reasonable man and how the system of laws and regulations must be fluid, just and not oppose that which appears obvious.

Marijuana, opiates, alcohol, barbiturates and other psychotropic agents, as viewed by the reasonable man, may cause harm to others if ingested or available in an unregulated manner. Caffeine on the other hand in the eyes of the reasonable man, does not show evidence of harm to others if ingested. Nicotine, in itself would fall into the caffeine class, if extricated from the common vehicle from which it is obtained, tobacco. Tobacco as a vehicle for the ingestion of nicotine does pose a problematic question. Tobacco, when burned, has evidential studies showing harm to others if passively exposed to “secondary smoke” and more recently “third hand tobacco residue”.

Tobacco and tobacco cessation products are perfectly legal and regulated. The products produced to treat tobacco abuse have evolved into a profitable industry whose products are used many times as maintenance rather than cessation agents. Various medications bupropion relabeled as Zyban, Chantrix, Champix and others have been utilized to aid in smoking cessation. Tobacco smoke and the thousands of chemicals associated with curing and combustion of leaves has obviously become a public health issue. People willingly continue the habitual use of tobacco despite cancer, pulmonary and atherosclerotic side effects.

So the FDA assumes nicotine is the problem and asks why add another nicotine vehicle to the publics armamentarium. They ask why allow people a another means of obtaining nicotine. Would not RFK had said why not?

Nicotine is a mild stimulant which improves attention, concentration and has been shown to decrease tumor growth in certain genetic breast cancers. Nicotine is pleasurable and not in itself tumorigenic. Electronic cigarettes may avoid many of the risks of tobacco, have yet to be shown to be any great health issue and address many of the issues related to tobacco. Yet the FDA has taken hold of these maintenance devices and had associated them with tobacco (not by their choice).

Smoking must be seen as a multifactorial behavior. There is the acquisition of Nicotine, there is the hand and mouth behavior of smoking, there is the “smoke blowing and inhaling” and there is the association of the behavior with the formal oral smoke production.

Alcohol is a good example of the paradox of a substance. In limited quantities it is pleasurable and has been shown to have positive health effects. In excess it can be an agent that impairs judgment, can endanger the public (DUI) and can lead to lethal physical conditions, both acutely and chronically.

Nicotine is a substance that has a fairly low LD50 that is still much higher than common use. It has been added to gums, inhalers, SNUS, and inhalants in efforts to counter withdrawal and lead to tobacco smoke elimination.

The advent of the electronic cigarette adds a dimension to nicotine administration that markedly limits exposure to second hand smoke and the numerous toxins in tobacco. It replaces “tar” nicotine delivery from traditional tobacco with vapor inhaled nicotine in a VG/PG medium. Is it safe? A difficult question. Is it tolerated by smokers? the answer must be yes. Should it be regulated? Yes- but not for the reason one would expect. It should be monitored for purity and lack of toxic additives. Vendors should have guidelines for certain impurities and test for diacetyl contaminants.

Is it a cessation device-no. Can people stop vaping and therefore lead to abstinence-yes. The reasonable man would think this. As as obese man change his diet to lose weight, so a vapor could decrease nicotine content and lessen nicotine exposure. Is that the premise for this product-no.

Personal testimonials speak for the benefits in individual experiences. I have personally chewed nicotine gum, used patches, nasal sprays and Chantix. The gum actually increased my nicotine use as it was accepted and I used it more frequently, Chantrix caused severe mood swings, nasal sprays led to nosebleeds and frustration and patches caused severe skin reactions,

Six months ago I started vaping. I have not had an “analogue” cigarette since. I breath better and do not snore at night. I don’t wheeze, I don’t cough and I feel more energy and do not lose my breath going up stairs. My personal experience is matched by the observation of others.

So would not RFK dream and say why not? I think yes.

Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Cucumbers were recently recalled for Salmonella. This is the job of the FDA.

If the liquid vehicle for nicotine from a vendor showed impurities- it too could be recalled.

My life has changed for the better. What will come of this- it is unclear. We must be open minded to research into replacements and their effects. Cessation and abstinence is always a goal, but a goal takes steps and steps take time.

John Connell