{"id":2270,"date":"2011-04-25T23:19:53","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T03:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/?p=2270"},"modified":"2011-04-25T23:19:53","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T03:19:53","slug":"fda-to-regulate-ecigs-as-tobacco-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/fda-to-regulate-ecigs-as-tobacco-products\/","title":{"rendered":"FDA to Regulate Ecigs as Tobacco Products"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The FDA has apparently agreed to comply with court rulings and regulate electronic cigarettes as tobacco products. \u00a0Check out the ABC news story <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Business\/wireStory?id=13453151&amp;sms_ss=twitter&amp;at_xt=4db5c063f412cf84%2C0\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. \u00a0This is good news for vapers. \u00a0If we are forced to be subject to some sort of regulation, which we inevitably will be, classifying ecigs as tobacco products is the lesser of two evils. \u00a0The alternative of regulating the personal vaporizer as a drug delivery device would force most vendors to close their doors. \u00a0It remains to be seen just how the FDA hopes to control the industry, but this is a good start. \u00a0Be sure to check out the last line of the article, &#8220;But some public health experts say the level of those carcinogens was comparable to those found in nicotine replacement therapy, because the nicotine in all of the products is extracted from tobacco.&#8221; \u00a0Intelligent commentary for a change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FDA has apparently agreed to comply with court rulings and regulate electronic cigarettes as tobacco products. \u00a0Check out the ABC news story here. \u00a0This is good news for vapers. \u00a0If we are forced to be subject to some sort of regulation, which we inevitably will be, classifying ecigs as tobacco products is the lesser [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2271,"href":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270\/revisions\/2271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vapingguides.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}