FDA Ready To Regulate Pipes

[woodsroad]

Well...waterpipes. That's the goal right now. But the slope is slippery, and briar pipes are just downhill from the low hanging fruit of waterpipes:
Waterpipes - A Public Workshop
"March 17, 2016

8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
March 18, 2016

8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

Center for Tobacco Products (CTP)

FDA White Oak Conference Center

Building 31, Room 1503

10903 New Hampshire Avenue

Silver Spring, Maryland 20993-0002

Workshop Objective:
The purpose of this workshop is to gather scientific information and stimulate discussion among scientists about waterpipes and waterpipe tobacco (hookah). This workshop intends to address a wide range of information on waterpipes and waterpipe tobacco smoking, including presentations and panel discussions about the current state of the science, and will focus on product design, smoke constituents and emissions of harmful and potentially harmful constituents (HPHCs), HPHC exposures to users and non-users, environmental impacts, prevalence and patterns of use, perceptions, addiction, and the impact of marketing these products on population health including both users and nonusers.
Should the Agency move forward to regulate waterpipe tobacco as proposed in the Agency’s rulemaking titled Deeming Tobacco Products to Be Subject to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, as Amended by the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act; Regulations on the Sale and Distribution of Tobacco Products and Required Warning Statements for Tobacco Products, 79 FR 23142 (Proposed Apr. 25, 2014), additional information about the products would assist the Agency in carrying out its responsibilities under the law. The workshop is intended to better inform FDA about these products through the exchange of scientific information, but is not intended to seek advice or consensus."

 

[gloucesterman]

Lets find a presidential candidate that thinks we should save money by reducing the overhead at the FDA. IF this is what they have money to spend on, they have way too much!

 

[woodsroad]

This is just one tiny aspect of the innovative and proactive approaches that they are taking over at the FDA.

Check out their site for more information on the myriad of efforts now in play to rid this country of that scoundrel Tobacco:
FDA Center for Tobacco Products

 

[misterlowercase]

My thoughts seen here:

http://pipesmagazine.com/forums/topic/fda-blocks-sale-of-four-new-cigarette-bands#post-902444

 

[gtclark]

The workshop is intended to better inform FDA about these products through the exchange of scientific information, but is not intended to seek advice or consensus."

Classic.

 

[woodsroad]

If they "seek" advice, they are then bound to considering that advice once it is received. If they are offering an opportunity to "inform", then the FDA is free to make an arbitrary decision without considering any evidence presented to them, since they did not "seek" it.
Or something like that.
Mark my word: If this sort of thing is allowed to continue unchecked, then tobacco pipes will be subject to regulation as medical devices.

 

[huntertrw]

"...and will focus on product design, smoke constituents and emissions of harmful and potentially harmful constituents (HPHCs), HPHC exposures to users and non-users, environmental impacts..."
"...environmental impacts..."? Look out!

 

[brian64]

Don't worry...the FDA can be trusted to act honestly and rationally...and without fraud, corruption or any hidden agendas...and above all, in accordance with the Constitution...just like all of the other monstrous, out of control, federal bureaucracies.
FDA caught running 'paranoid, retaliatory' institutionalized spying ring
http://www.naturalnews.com/036875_FDA_paranoia_surveillance.html

 

[thebrokenone]

Any publicity is good publicity, am I right? Perhaps not; I have been wrong before. Just as it is with everything else, only time will tell the impact. Not much one individual can do about world events.

 

[gloucesterman]

Lets find a presidential candidate that thinks we should save money by reducing the overhead at the FDA. IF this is what they have money to spend on, they have way too much!

 

[smokeyweb]

New FDA regulations to include tobacco swag, including pipes themselves. Pretty soon we will all be smoking Captain Black out of weed pipes.

 

[mso489]

The demographic of hookah smokers must be minuscule. How about a sanitation inspective every four or five years for places where food is processed? Last I checked, people who eat constitute almost 100% of the population. Better coordination so actual pain management patients continue access to the pain meds they need while recreational users are discouraged from use and treated for addiction. It's expensive but much more efficacious than investigating hookah and pipe blends. I would think. Who is setting these priorities? I think some advice and consensus is needed on these issues.

 

[zitotczito]

I my prepping for the ultimate demise of tobacco, now I need to throw a couple bags of MM cob seconds into the cellar. Just in case!

 

[jefff]

I am just going to continue to go though life assuming the sky isn't falling.
Call me naive.

 

[peckinpahhombre]

Regulations bounce off me like water off of a duck's ass.

 

[jefff]

If it walks like a ducks ass and smoke like a ducks ass......

 

[iamn8]

Ducks have asses? Speaking of duck asses, do the Canadians regulate pipes? I seriously doubt we'll do anything to pipes if not even the Canadians have.

 

[condorlover1]

With all the advances in stem cell research and cloning maybe we need a DNA sample of Lee Harvey Oswald! :rofl:

 

[drwatson]

With all the advances in stem cell research and cloning maybe we need a DNA sample of Lee Harvey Oswald!

So wrong and yet hilarious!! :rofl: :clap: :worship: ::

 

[peckinpahhombre]

do the Canadians regulate pipes? I seriously doubt we'll do anything to pipes if not even the Canadians have.

Nope