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I didn't know we had switched to communism! I thought we were only starting to become socialist. This is ridiculous! The FDA has no jurisdiction in this matter. I suggest all electronic cigarette users who are now non-smokers file a class action lawsuit against the FDA for damages with the published known death-rates for smokers as evidence to support our claim.

I got the blucigs.com brand and I haven't smoked a traditional cig since. Well... I had about 8 the first week...

I found that using a low dose patch along with the blu is a great way to kick the old coffin nails

I had a shipment of 250 bottles of e-liquid, the Nicotine flavored liquid that is used for refilling Electronic Cigarettes, Refused Admission into the USA by the FDA!
The shipment was sent to me from a company in the Netherlands, who is based in China.
UPS handed the shipment over to US Customs, who then passed it on to the FDA for investigation.
The package was shipped on April 10th, 2009.
The final Refusal of Admission was given to me on May 5th, 2009, stating the following reason:
Refused: 2,500 ml
FPLA Section Section 4(a); 801(a)(3) Misbranding
The article appears in violation of FPLA because of its placement, form and/or contents statement.
William J. Forman, Compliance Officer

Complete rubbish. Everyone knows why they're focusing so hard on these e-cigs... Anyone who can't see why needs to pull their head out of the dirt and start seeing things as they are!

I am so irate! This is unbelievable. This isn't about "safety", this is about a corrupt government in collusion with the tobacco and pharmaceutical industries. It's all about money and power. I would be happy to help protest this, but have no idea how to organize a mass protest. This is more like a communism than a free society. The FDA has no right to infringe on any personal rights and this is a blatant infringement on personal freedom. Tobacco has so many horrible ingrediants! To say that electronic cigarettes may cause teens to use nicotene or that nicotene is a new drug is such a phony excuse for this illegal action. Strength is in numbers and we should show our strength!

I agree with your comments. If you have not yet done so, go sign the petition that is trying to help keep electronic cigarettes available to the public. It only takes a moment. You can find the petition at:

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/keep-life-saving-electronic-cigarettes-available

FDA intervention is wrong!!! I smoked regular cigarettes for approximately 40 years, and was able to stop smoking; I would not have had sucess in this venture, had it not been for E cigs; prior to cessation of smoking, my oxygen saturation level was 90%, it is now 98% after two months, and I feel it would be tragic if this product is banned, the proposal is lame, the benefits are enormous. I have been a nurse for 40 years, and have seen the ilnesses, suffering, and death related to smoking. People have the right to this product; which is no worse than current over the counter preparations currently available. This action is politically charged, and not about safety concerns.

FDA and/or government control over Ecigarette type product cease is nuts.. I think the public should have a say in this before CROOKS IN GOVERNMENT try to sneak it off into some type of law or don't we live in a Free Country anymore?. Not all Ecigarettes use Nicotine I hope to reach that stage. Being a smoker and trying to quit I purchased the one. Since I used the ECig my disire to smoke cigarettes deceased and I finally feel as if I am getting an upper hand on this horrible habit.. Now the the US wants to control the product and we live in a "FREE" contry? Wondering who's Bright idea this was and I think the public has a right to know.

The only reason the FDA is trying so hard to ban e-cigs is that the big tobacco companies have the FDA and congress in general in their back pocket. How will the tobacco companies continue to keep their hold on people and therefore keep making their millions in profit if more people stop and/or reduce their dependence on regular cigs.
It all comes down to MONEY....

I smoked for 42 years and was a three pack a day smoker untill I tryed the electronic cigarette. I have tryed to guit smoking with pills,patches, hypnosis, cold turkey, and prescribed nicotine fake cigerates and all failed, I always went back to regular cigerettes. Since starting the smoke anywhere cigarette I have NOT smoked or bought a regular cigarette in thirty days!!
The FDA needs to keep thier nose out of the sales of electronic smoking. Val Cowell

This has nothing to do with health or safety and EVERYTHING to do with the potential for lost tax revenue.

If smokers start to abandon tobacco-based cigarettes in favor of electronic cigarettes, the states' and Feds' ridiculous tobacco tax revenue stream goes into the toilet.

Why do you think, if tobacco is as big a health hazard as it is (and I'm not disputing that it is) tobacco hasn't been banned?

Two reasons:

First, bans can be repealed -- taxes can't.

Second, keeping tobacco-based cigarettes on the market and addicting new wallets (we used to be called people, but let's be realistic now) keeps money flowing into the government's pockets. Banning cigarettes puts a dead stop to that. Electronic cigarettes come to the same conclusion, if perhaps a little more slowly.

This is simple nonsense.The worlds tobacco companies aren't getting their cut + the tax poop some1 mentioned.Like they aren't rich enough lmao.Wait awhile they will become legal again when they get their cut soz.

Communism is apparently where we are headed. There are hundreds of drugs and medications our there being sold on TV infomercials and on store shelves. You think all those body building supplements are FDA approved? It clearly states on them that it is not. I bet the tobacco industry has paid off officials in the government to ban electronic cigarettes in their favor. Electronic cigarettes do not even have a huge market share compared to the tobacco cigarette industry. I am not even sure why they are having a fit over this.

An electronic cigarette Vaping which is made with 99% H2o (water) 1 % nicotine. Compare this with a regular tobacco cig which has over 4000 Toxic,Posion & Carcinagines that kills over 400,000 people each year in the US & Not counting worldwide.An Electronic Cigarette on the other hand has No reports stating of any indications to deaths within the past 5 years of it's making. I wonder if the FDA Labs do really exist? If yes, than I would recommend for them to regulate Tobacco Cigarettes before closing the doors on a great product called an Electronic Cigarette Vaping. I have been a tobacco smoker myself for a long time & when I was first introduced to an electronic cig, I thought this device is either going to overcome my habit of tobacco smoking or it's gonna stop me for good. Well I'm here to say that it has done it's job pretty impressively by making me quit smoking for good! Now I choose Vaping with an electronic cig, instead inhaling poison, toxic and & carcinogens into my lungs. So please think twice before you ignite another tobacco cigarette, instead choose a better alternative for you & for others! I choose an Electronic Cig. @ http://www.ElectronicCig.com

Hey Everyone, there are many valid points being made here. I would just like to say that Traditional cigarettes have 4000 chemicals, and are way worse compared to electronic cigarettes. NOW are electronic cigarettes 100% safe?? of course not, but no body is claiming that it is. So lets allow adults to make their own decision, and if they wish to try e cigarettes http://www.electroniccigarettesource.com let them, they will be be way better off in the long term, because e cigs have no SMOKE no odor, and they don't stain your teeth, and the water vapor is not the same as giving off second hand smoke. Please visit the Electronic cigarette association and read the valuable info that they have on there.

Over 400,000 American Citizens Die every year! So if the FDA really cares about it's citizens then it should Ban Traditional Tobacco smoking before Closing it's Doors on a Simple device called an Electronic Cigarette which Has not yet harmed a single human since it was introduced in 2004. I've been a tobacco smoker all my life and this simple device made me quit smoking Tobacco for good so I can freely suggest to those who are considering a much better & safer alternative to give an electronic Cig a try. Please care about your health & the environment! :)

"Over 400,000 American Citizens Die every year! So if the FDA really cares about it's citizens then it should Ban Traditional Tobacco smoking"

Stop with the magical thinking. It's not as though banning everything "unhealthy" means you won't die, you'll just die from something else. Life is fatal. Everybody dies. Lung cancer goes down but heart disease goes up. The death rate doesn't change.

Stop being such wusses, people!

Do what you want and enjoy your life as you like.

It's no magical thinking you Dummie! We can surely lower the death rate by getting more people to convert from hazardeous tobacco smoking to Electronic (VAPING) which has not harmed a single user for the past 5 years of it's making!!! check the death stats on this two products & than comment wisely next time!!!

Tony, the death rate remains constant at 100%. Life is fatal.

They will not ban the e cigarette. They are just looking for a way to tax it, that's all.

The FDA does not care about electric cig, nicotine, being harmful to us. If they were so concerned about our health they would ban tobacco. Also If smoking flavored nicotine is going to entice non-smokers to start and or young children to start smoking then they need to ban the the state stores that sell alcohol. Alcohol is addicting and comes in different flavors. Over the past year sales on e-cigs went from about 10 million to 100 million in sales according to the electric cigarette assn. Do you think Phillip Morris has any part in helping to ban the product that has helped people stop smoking tobacco? How much money do you think the tobacco company is loosing. I haven't smoked a tobacco cig in 3 months. I feel great. My cough is gone, I don't wheeze anymore and I'm not harming anyone with second hand smoke. Leave us vapers alone. We have been ban from smoking from public places and taxed to the limit.
Finally smokers found an alternative to a healthier way to smoke or not smoke, STILL not good enough. It all about Money.

Unfortunately, the FDAis being swayed by the best interests of both Big Tobacco and Big Pharma. The electronic cigarette stands to put a huge dent in both the tobacco cigarette and nicotine replacement (nicoderm, nircorette,etc.) markets. Big Tobacco and Big Pharma don't like this very much, and happen to be some of the major contributors of FDA programs. They put pressure on the FDA, and the FDA suddenly is contemplating a ban of the electronic cigarette. Starting to make sense now?

Why else would the FDA want to ban a product that has the potential to save millions of lives a year throughout the world?

Johnny B

A rare spark of sanity occurred this week when California Governor Arnold Schwarzenager saved electronic cigarettes from being banned for everyone in the state with a Vito! Glad he showed some sense...