The Shame of the FDA

We hear a lot from many corners of the US that nicotine will seduce our children into smoking, brain damage, lives of utter despair, and on and on.

Most recently the small vape shops are in agony over the acceleration of the PMTA for eliquid from the FDA.

This exactly the agony the FDA wants.

The reason?

Opioid deaths.

Remember all your friends like Oxy Contin, etc. are all FDA approved.

According to this study children and adolescent are killed by these drugs at an alarming rate:

Thousands since 1999.  Not to mention, of course the "normal" forty thousand (40,000+) deaths a year in the general population.

The real question the "vape shops" should be asking is this:

"Why vaping when children are being killed by other FDA approved drugs...?"

Of course, the FDA and friends will quickly try to point out that these are two different things.

Unrelated.

But they are not.

Every ounce of energy put into vaping takes away from saving the lives of children (and everyone else) dying because of the opioid crisis.

Want to win the vaping war?

Start asking the FDA to publicly explain why nicotine (which is not even exclusive to tobacco) outweighs actual deaths...