No small business can compete or innovate to protect public health while CTP continues to discriminate against small businesses with arbitrary, capricious, and secret internal rules that are not officially product standards. @MartyMakary
Biden tried to outlaw flavored vapes, while also pushing to decriminalize hard drugs. President Trump promised to save flavored vapes for those trying to quit smoking, but now Big Tobacco is working with @NewYorkStateAG to shut the industry down. https://t.co/EMOy2dXZzP
🔎 Audio of today's 5th Circuit oral argument in Triton v. FDA (on remand from SCOTUS), including our rough transcript of the session. 1/
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https://t.co/UXdXnJZrma
"British hospitals run vaping shops inside hospitals to help patients quit smoking. The FDA, by contrast, spent six years trying to shut down the same products.
Perhaps more importantly, removing Dr. Makary is a clear sign that the FDA is no longer willing to continue on the warpath to end the vaping epidemic. Ample evidence along the way shows it never had control—just the ability to cause chaos and harm.
Any time the FDA stops doing that, we’re all better off."
https://t.co/nzrbUtueI5
point of information at 42:10... FD&CA clearly defines tobacco products as things made from tobacco leaves. It was deeming then continuing resolutions that made nicotine the lynch pin of FDA tobacco regulations. Nicotine could have just as easily ended up in the same family as non-pharmaceutical health products available on amazon and GNC, but congress cant seem to pass laws or budgets and just lets members throw things into the CR.
@vapelawguy@JMacNYC needs to have you on the shaping vaping podcast to discuss this, but I imagine there is an element of strategic confidentiality and prep for these kinds of arguments
@VaporAmerican
In the alternatives category, I can disclose that we have increasing sales to Canada and Alaska for flavoring animal attractants. Apparently bears, moose and deer really like FLV Banana, FLV Salmanaki, and various Berry Flavors.
@IsleHeritage671@LanceChurchill@vapelawguy Every week we pray for these customers! Headline is "Lazurus, Come out!" Here's the email in question: https://t.co/U2lpoJqUVq
Agreed! We've never asked for a dime from our customers to get in the trenches and help put all these filings together, and then they all get Ctr+A + Deleted. Homes mortgaged to pay consultants, thousands of small businesses bankrupted, and millions of customers lied to and lost.
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AVM has obtained a letter from @FDATobacco rescinding the agency's prior rejection of a vape company's products -- a possibly unprecedented reversal outside of litigation. Is FDA finally coming to its senses? Let's examine.
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Strange housekeeping move by FDA—rescission of a set of marketing denial orders issued in 2021 to a manufacturer, but only for its tobacco and menthol flavors.
FDA actions already shut the company down, so this is just a piece of scrap paper to them.
@vapelawguy@GrimmGreen That is insane and ridiculous. The MDO'ed American products need to be reviewed. We know they never were... Back of the line! @DOGE_FDA@FDATobacco
1:22:10 "This is literally a luck of the draw situation" "if someone was an early PMTA Submitter... If you were responsible company... you got screwed, they fatal flawed you and you got a market denial order..." This is the problem. This is exactly correct, and exactly the problem that leads to Big tobacco monopolizing healthy alternatives and not small businesses that helped millions of consumers quite big tobacco cigarettes!
@uTobian@castello2@DrMakaryFDA@SusieWiles47 For a decade I helped thousands in my community to successfully quit smoking with an essential inventory of about 3K different vapor products in my vape shop, none from any of those 3. All of my liquids were sourced from small, American manufacturers, most now gone, like my shop.