FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb recently posted this discussion of the FDA's attack on the stampede of children run amuck clutching their JUULs. While I'm sure Scott means well it's hard to pin the the exact source of his concerns related to youth and vaping, for example (from this link):
What the actual truth is on the matter is hard to say but my guess is that the above graphic is true.
For one thing, the vaping market is growing rapidly and now owned at the level of some 70% by JUUL (see juul.com) where we find this interesting information:
Seems old JUUL has figured out what the Marlboro Man knew all along (see this on making Marlboro moreaddictive fun) - diddling the product (in this case with Benzoic acid - not necessarily the best thing to vape) makes it, er, shall we say, more addictive fun. Vaping's been around for some time now, in our house some eight years. No more smokers (unless that pesky FDA punishes people like Mrs. Wolf because of JUUL).
Little wonder everyone and their brother is hitting the JUUL, what with the high-tech, chemlab formulation targeting the most expedient rise in blood/nicotine they could find.
(Or perhaps it's this lawsuit against the FDA claiming the FDA is not regulating vaping products fast enough that's twisting Mr. Gottlieb's knickers...)
No, Scott, I think you've got it all wrong...
Vaping isn't really all the exciting when you take JUUL away. Mom and dad, and even some big businesses, making plain old USP nicotine (POUN) e-liquids didn't really get the growth that JUUL did.
Don't you wonder about this (hint: Barry Bond on steroids)?
Nobody had this kind of market share before JUUL.
Now, just like that, kaboom!
See what a little industrial chemistry can do to juice up something that's boring and not much fun?
Nicotine salts versus POUN - guess who looses?
My wife and family.
Now the threat in your manifesto is to take away life saving products in the name of public health...
Hmmm... Not really helping public health to slow down a drop in smoking, is it?
Especially if people go back to smoking because of FDA's actions.
Scott, I'm sure you've seen this video of James Monsees at TechCrunch:
https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/05/juul-says-it-will-use-technology-to-help-you-quit-e-cigarettes-too/
Why, they've solved the problem they've created by "tobacco education."
Sure...
Smoking is declining because of vaping - JUUL is making it faster, but in a bad way - their doing it too fast.
On the other hand I guess you like JUUL because it's a one stop regulation shopping deal - no messy mom and pop's to regulate. Just let JUUL get really big in the market and bam all they sell is taste-frree vape that sends people flocking to cigarettes (oops!)
You've got a lot of high and mighty talk in your manifesto...
But it really sounds like you are selling out (or at best threatening to sell out) smoke free adults for a problem that you can fix by stamping out JUUL... er, wait, that won't work either because the happy little JUULers like the host in the Monsees video will go back to smoking...
(And one more thing Scott - listen how she talks about the damn thing? Like it's an opium pipe or something. There's like a dozen people in my family who vape - and I know many more - who don't JUUL and they don't talk like her either...)
What the actual truth is on the matter is hard to say but my guess is that the above graphic is true.
For one thing, the vaping market is growing rapidly and now owned at the level of some 70% by JUUL (see juul.com) where we find this interesting information:
Seems old JUUL has figured out what the Marlboro Man knew all along (see this on making Marlboro more
Little wonder everyone and their brother is hitting the JUUL, what with the high-tech, chemlab formulation targeting the most expedient rise in blood/nicotine they could find.
(Or perhaps it's this lawsuit against the FDA claiming the FDA is not regulating vaping products fast enough that's twisting Mr. Gottlieb's knickers...)
No, Scott, I think you've got it all wrong...
Vaping isn't really all the exciting when you take JUUL away. Mom and dad, and even some big businesses, making plain old USP nicotine (POUN) e-liquids didn't really get the growth that JUUL did.
Don't you wonder about this (hint: Barry Bond on steroids)?
Nobody had this kind of market share before JUUL.
Now, just like that, kaboom!
See what a little industrial chemistry can do to juice up something that's boring and not much fun?
Nicotine salts versus POUN - guess who looses?
My wife and family.
Now the threat in your manifesto is to take away life saving products in the name of public health...
Hmmm... Not really helping public health to slow down a drop in smoking, is it?
Especially if people go back to smoking because of FDA's actions.
Scott, I'm sure you've seen this video of James Monsees at TechCrunch:
https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/05/juul-says-it-will-use-technology-to-help-you-quit-e-cigarettes-too/
Why, they've solved the problem they've created by "tobacco education."
Sure...
Smoking is declining because of vaping - JUUL is making it faster, but in a bad way - their doing it too fast.
On the other hand I guess you like JUUL because it's a one stop regulation shopping deal - no messy mom and pop's to regulate. Just let JUUL get really big in the market and bam all they sell is taste-frree vape that sends people flocking to cigarettes (oops!)
You've got a lot of high and mighty talk in your manifesto...
But it really sounds like you are selling out (or at best threatening to sell out) smoke free adults for a problem that you can fix by stamping out JUUL... er, wait, that won't work either because the happy little JUULers like the host in the Monsees video will go back to smoking...
(And one more thing Scott - listen how she talks about the damn thing? Like it's an opium pipe or something. There's like a dozen people in my family who vape - and I know many more - who don't JUUL and they don't talk like her either...)
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