“By exploiting fear and confusion, e-cigarette opponents amassed support among the public and lawmakers for restrictions on e-cigarettes. Cities and states instituted onerous new rules, including banning all e-cigarette sales (but not traditional cigarettes), prohibiting flavored e-cigarettes, restricting sales to in-person transactions, and criminalizing possession of certain e-cigarettes. Last week, the FDA submitted a request to delay the PMTA deadline by four months, but even if granted, this would merely push the inevitable end of the e-cigarette industry to September 2020. In the meantime, anti-nicotine advocates are still trying to spread misinformation, slip state-wide vaping bans around the normal legislative process, and, ludicrously, link COVID-19 deaths to e-cigarette use—for which there is zero evidence.”
BILL TARLING — Reminder that a lot of the services and labs that are needed in order to do the required testing (which can take months with the backlog), which must be filed with the PMTA submission, are still closed too or not operating at full capacity given their huge backlog — so even with just a 4 month extension, most PMTA submissions cannot be met [except for BT products since they have their own in-house testing labs]
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Four-Month FDA Extension Not Sufficient
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