I tried a half dozen ways to quit, dozens of times. Finally about 16 months ago I purchased my first e-cig. Forty-five years of smoking, 45 seconds to quit. Haven’t lit up since.

Not that I didn’t see this FDA thing coming. Just as with the flood of TV, radio, print, and billboard ads when I was a kid, big pharma is now promoting hundreds of drugs (many to smokers and those with smoking related illnesses). Many of these drugs are damaging and killing people (hundreds of thousands per year). Again the government approves, and cracks down hard on any and all alternatives (like organic foods and supplements). The FDA is a criminal, facist organization which in no way would like to see me, you, or anyone else actually healthy. They are in it for the money and the power. Crushing e-cigs in favor of big tobacco and big pharma is simply another way for them to get and keep it.

What really pisses me off is that, having tried several e-liquids from overseas and found one I could live with, the FDA pressured US Customs into holding up their shipments. So I switched to an American company they could not do this to, and have come to love the product. So a year later, who do they now send draconian warnings to? My American supplier.

I’m sure I’m not alone in asking: Why is it my government seems hell bent on killing me? Why does the FDA (and the USDA) consistently go after the very things keeping so many of us alive and well, while expressly permitting things which sicken and kill US citizens? Seriously, why? Their track record is so consistent in this, we’d have to be idiots to think their deadly decisions have been mere coincidence.

why is the FDA so against e-cigarettes?

One of the ways that the government managed to pass its recent tobacco reform bill was by enlisting big tobacco’s support. So the FDA and big tobacco have a symbiotic relationship. The government gets billions of dollars from excise tax revenue on and lawsuits related to cigarettes. Big tobacco gets regulation that makes it harder for smaller companies to compete. So the FDA needs to keep up its end of the bargain here and not allow a threat like e-cigarettes to take hold in the U.S. — even if they did turn out to be good for the American people.

why is the FDA so against e-cigarettes?

here was the judges’ reasoning, via the New York Times:

“This case appears to be yet another example of F.D.A.’s aggressive efforts to regulate recreational tobacco products as drugs or devices,” Judge Leon wrote.

With the passage of landmark tobacco legislation last year, he added, the Food and Drug Administration’s new tobacco division will be able to regulate the contents and marketing claims of e-cigarettes in the same way it is about to begin regulating traditional tobacco products. But the agency’s drug division cannot ban the devices, the judge ruled.

One of the ways that the government managed to pass its recent tobacco reform bill was by enlisting big tobacco’s support. So the FDA and big tobacco have a symbiotic relationship. The government gets billions of dollars from excise tax revenue on and lawsuits related to cigarettes. Big tobacco gets regulation that makes it harder for smaller companies to compete. So the FDA needs to keep up its end of the bargain here and not allow a threat like e-cigarettes to take hold in the U.S. — even if they did turn out to be good for the American people.