Author: pbusardo
PBUSARDO/TASTEYOURJUICE CONTEST RULES
Here’s a written version of the contest rules.
- Contests are contained within the video reviews. Currently running contests also appear in the upper right corner of TasteYourJuice.com, next to “Recent News”
- Contest entries should be emailed to contest@tasteyourjuice.com unless specified otherwise.
- The answer to the contest question must be contained in the subject line of the email. Nothing in the body of the email will be read.
- You must be 18+ to enter a contest.
- You must enter each contest only once. Duplicates from the same email will be removed.
- Contest winners are announced in post contest review videos.
- Contest winners have one week to respond using the same email used when entering the contest to pbusardo@tasteyourjuice.com. No response within one week forfeits your winnings and the prize will be used in a future contest. Sorry, tired of chasing you down.
- I will not respond to emails regarding contests; asking me who won, questions about the contest, if your email made it into the contest, etc. If you did things correctly, you’re entered. Note that the scroll I sometimes show in the video when picking the winner skips over MANY names and your name may not show up, even though you’re entered.
- Contest winners will be required to agree to the following:
- I am at least 18 years old.
- I will use any product won in PBusardo/TasteYourJuice contest at my own risk.
- PBusardo, Phil Busardo, or TasteYourJuice.com will not be held responsible for any damage to person or property from the use of any item won in a contest.
- PBusardo, Phil Busardo, or TasteYourJuice.com will not be responsible for repairing or replacing any item won in a contest in the event it malfunctions or arrives in a non-working state.
- Shipping outside of the US will be paid for by the contest winner.
- You will supply a photo of you with your winnings that can be used on the website.
- You understand that some items may have been opened or used. Nothing is delivered in an unsanitary state.
- You understand that some e-liquids won in a contest may have been previously opened and tested.
- You understand that e-liquids could be poisonous if used incorrectly and MUST be kept out of reach of children and pets.
CASAA Assessment of FDA Deeming Regulation, April 25, 2014
Please click their logo below to be see their assessment.
IMPORTANT:
Taking Action.
It is our current assessment that these proposed regulations are not in the best interests of consumers. They include some good provisions, but do far more harm than good. They are based on arbitrary claims and rationalizations. Should the regulations be finalized as currently formulated and implied, we are prepared to marshal our resources to file a lawsuit on behalf of consumers.
We expect to provide further analysis on Monday, April 28th, 2014. In the next week or two, we will issue a Call to Action detailing how the proposed regulations affect consumers along with suggested actions so that consumers can respond most effectively. Please remember that a comment to the FDA regulations made on Day 1 is given no more weight than a comment made on Day 75. We urge the vaping community and others interested in opposing regulation that discourages tobacco harm reduction to await further analysis before acting. There is no benefit in acting or opining precipitously.
A SUGGESTION FROM LAWYER GREG CONLEY, A FORMER CASAA DIRECTOR…
By the time most of you read this, the FDA Center for Tobacco Products will have already released the several hundred page “deeming” regulation regarding electronic cigarettes and other nicotine and tobacco products.Please read this comment I quickly wrote earlier tonight on why vapers and vendors should OPPOSE deeming regulation. I have reproduced it below this e-mail.
Predictably, the news stories out right now are largely being told from the FDA’s point of view. The FDA is trying to sell this regulation to lawmakers, public health groups, and industry, so they are of course aiming to have their regulation portrayed in the most positive light possible in the media.Nonetheless, from what I can gather from these news articles and my knowledge of the Tobacco Control Act, the deeming regulation will be a disaster for e-cigarette product innovation, small and medium-sized businesses, and consumers. This is not a surprise to me, as people and groups like Bill Godshall, Dr. Michael Siegel, CASAA, SFATA, myself, etc. have long-noted that regulation of e-cigarettes under the Tobacco Control Act would likely do more harm than good, increase costs to consumers without benefits, and lead to products being removed from the market.Please do not accept interview requests by journalists and TV reporters on this subject until you fully understand the ramifications of these regulations. Simply tell the reporters that, like any rational business owner, you won’t be commenting until you have had the chance to actually read the proposed regulations.
For business owners and investors wishing to understand the subject more, I offer consulting services. Please call or email me for more details.Best,
Gregory Conley, JD, MBA231 Church Road
Medford, NJ 08055
Here is the comment from Greg on Reddit. I thought it important enough to re-post…
Two years after these regulations go into effect, any e-cigarette product then on the market containing nicotine or any e-cigarette product marketed to be used with nicotine will be BANNED if the manufacturer does not submit a costly application to the FDA. New products will not be permitted to enter the market without FDA approval. FDA is woefully and inadequately prepared to handle this.
This is NOT good news and vendors and vapers should vehemently OPPOSE these regulations, as they will only serve to benefit large tobacco and e-cigarette companies with Wall Street investors, none of whom make the products used by 98% of this subreddit’s users. At the same time, this will potentially shut down hundreds or thousands of small and medium-sized businesses thanks to an extremely expensive, resource-heavy, and arbitrary system setup by the Family Smoking Prevention & Tobacco Control Act.
This is actually worse than I expected.
Two years after the regulation is written, e-cigarette companies will have to put in ‘new tobacco product’ applications for any product released to the market after February 25, 2007.*** This is not mere registration. This is a lengthy and expensive process. If you don’t file an application, your product is banned. If you file an application and the FDA finds that your product shouldn’t be on the market for one of a variety of reasons (including their favorite, ‘You failed to submit adequate evidence of x, y, and z.’), it can be pulled from the market.
After that 2 year date, any new e-cigarette product must be approved by the FDA before it goes to market. If the FDA does not approve your product, it cannot be brought to market. This is not a fast process, as evidenced by a Government Accountability Office report that was highly critical of huge delays that were and still are happening at the FDA Center for Tobacco Products. http://www.gao.gov/assets/660/657451.pdf
For just a sample of what a “new tobacco product” application is like, see here. This a document from when the FDA refused to even file (let alone approve) four “new tobacco product” applications : http://www.fda.gov/downloads/TobaccoProducts/Labeling/MarketingandAdvertising/UCM389515.pdf
Also see this snippet from a Lancet article (behind a paywall) by Dr. Lawrence Deyton, the former Director of the Center for Tobacco Products, in which the burden that will be put on e-cigarette and e-liquid companies is outlined: http://pastebin.com/5nGxZYac
This is bad news for e-cigarette consumers. The chance of a flavor ban or an online sales ban from the start was never really an option. This prospect was here all along and is not positive.
*** There is also something called “substantial equivalence” which is a smaller, but still expensive, loop to jump through. However, FDA guidance on substantial equivalence, and their past decisions on other applications, indicate that it would be a fruitless effort to prove substantial equivalence for a 2016 e-cig product vs. a 2007 product.
Vapers should not only oppose this deeming regulation, but also support vendors that stick up for their businesses and consumers.
A BREAKDOWN OF THE PROPOSED FDA REGULATIONS
Here is another good breakdown of the proposed FDA Regulations:
FDA Gives Huge Gift to Combustible Tobacco, and to Cancer
THANK YOU EROCK!
A Big THANK YOU to my buddy Erock for decorating my site for my birthday. It was an unexpected and pleasant surprise!
FDA REGULATIONS – HERE THEY ARE
Posted with permission of Dimitris and Vape Team Media.
FDA released “deeming regulations” today. Dimitris is joined by Dr. Gilbert Ross to discuss the chilling effects of these regulations and what you can do to make your voice heard.
Dr. Gilbert Ross is the Medical Director at the American Council for Science and Health.
The Video:
THE DNA-30 & THE CONTEST WINNERS ANNOUNCED
A PBusardo Review & Contest Winners – THE DNA 30
In this video we take a look at the DNA-30 and see how it compares to the DNA-20. We also pick the winners of the V3Tronics Flip and Seven-22 devices.
The Links:
EvolVapor – The DNA-30
V3Tronix – The Flip
Pioneer4You – The Seven-22
Vapor Ware Store – The meter
The Video:
The Photos:
Note that the DNA-20 is pictured in the photos below. The DNA-30 is the same size and format.
An interview with Jeff Stier by Dimitris
Posted with permission of Dimitris and Vape Team Media.
In this episode of It’s Political we discuss with Jeff Stier, Senior Fellow at the National Center for Public Policy Research (https://twitter.com/JeffaStier) what went down at the FDA Seminar held in San Diego April 5th as well as some interesting things stated at a press conference held at the same place! We also dive in why vapers should wake up and stand up for their right to vape!
The Video:
From Harry
My name is Harry and live in Sweden. I recently found your YouTube channel while googling for vaporizer reviews since I’m new to the vaping scene. I’d like to begin with giving you props for your amazing work! Your channel is by far the best and most informative channel when it comes to reviews and I have spent hours and hours watching your videos in order to learn more about the scene and I’m a big fan of your “number section”!
I’ve been smoking for 20 years and like you I have been feeling the downside to smoking for quite a while. I’ve known about eCiggs for a few years but I only knew about the cigarette lookalikes and didn’t find them interesting. By “accident” I stumbled on someone posting a pic of a MOD on Instagram and since then I’ve been hooked! 3 weeks ago I got my first eCigg (I don’t like the term and prefer the term vaporizer) and like you, I went cold turkey and haven’t looked back. I’ts by far the best change I’ve done in my life!At the moment I’m using the Ego-T with the CE5 Clearomizers and even if I’t does the trick, it’s just the beginning for me. I’m looking to get at least 3 different types of devices. Two for carrying with me and 1-2 for using at home. Right now I’m trying to figure out my next step and I’m using your YouTube channel for guidance.
Once again, thanks for the amazing work you are doing and I’m looking forward to following you!
Best Regards
Harry
From Michael
Phil,
I found your site while starting and getting involved with vaping to try and help me
to reduce my addiction to cigarettes, this past Tuesday had been my 11 week of not
smoking. I started vaping with a ego kit and a couple of flavors of e liquid back on
Thanksgiving weekend on 2013. In January one day I decided that I was not going to
smoke anymore cigarettes about two week after that I got the urge for a cigarette I
lighted up figuring I would get the satisfaction that I remembered of the cigarette
hanging out of my mouth and the pleasure that I remembered, wow was I wrong it was
the nastiest thing I could have imagined and after the second attempted puff I put
it out in an ashtray and haven’t had one since, I won’t say I do not have the
concessional urge for one more I would say the feeling of holding a cigarette in my
mouth with my lips, that sound so wrong lol. But I have progressed to some
mechanical mods and a itaste SVD and a Siegeli ZMAX 3 and am very happy to know that
I am not inhaling all the harmful toxins that are in a cigarette as I smoke it. I
am glad that this option exists and yet am scared by the moronic speech of all the
politicians trying to ban the devices and the e liquids that may end up saving my
life from one of the multiple disease that are attributed to cigarette use. My
question for you is beside make more videos you rock and I check each week for new
videos, is is there some place that I can go that takes the data that these
politicians spew from these different studies and breaks the reports down into basic
understandable info that a normal human can understand and not something that make
my brain hurt that is the CDC survey report on school age kids using cigarettes and
personal vaping devices. I think that the industry and users need to get away from
using the term of e-cigarettes and e-cigs so that this can not be used against us,
and I know that it is a easy term for the companies that make product like blu and
green cig to market to smokers but it was maybe not the best thought out plan. Well
now that I rambled on way longer that planned . I just would like to say thanks
for all the great info and comedy you provide on your site and in your videos and
from a proud to say hopefully continuing ex smoker who smoked for 27 years prior to
trying vaping and finding a way to give up the cigarettes at the age of 44 and
knowing I have a long battle to stay off them. Thank you for all the encouragement
you give in each and everyone of your videos and maybe one day I will have the honor
to meet you at a vape meet somewhere.
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