This is where the Democrats/progressives show their true colors. They claim Cigarettes are bad and must be controlled and made expensive through taxes to stop their use.
Then when a technology comes out to help stop smoking they panic and want to band them or make them just as expensive as cigarettes by regulation and taxes.
There is only one reason for this panic the loss of tax revenues from cigarette sales for if the E-cigarettes reduce smoking it will reduce tax revenues; and that is all they really care about!
Senate Democrats harried electronic cigarette companies throughout 2014, pushing hard for new rules and restrictions on the booming multibillion-dollar industry. Now, congressional Republicans – fresh off a November election landslide – are standing up for e-cigarettes and pushing back on pending regulations critics fear may allow administrative product bans.
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton, R-Mich., wrote to Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell last week requesting a change to proposed Food and Drug Administration regulations that may be enacted soon.
The proposed rules, released in April by the FDA, an HHS division, would require e-cigarette manufacturers to win “premarket” approval for their products within two years or pull the items from the market.
The new tobacco product approval process would apply to e-cigarette products released after February 2007, the proposed rules say, meaning…
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