Electronic Cigarettes: New Route to Smoking Addiction for Adolescents

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37. Wild West Marketing and the FDA

or any other US regulatory agency. What has been going on a long time keeps coming up a incredible harm and fraud with a perfect correlation to dysfunctional oversight. A fatal combination of the old plodding, complex paperwork with hobbled follow through has allowed- off the top of my head- a dangerous child's Tylenol poisonous dosage problem to linger on an on and on, a potentially dangerous, unproven(by standards) DNA testing kit(now with a cease and desist order, if that really happens) after five years of raking in profits.

From every angle of how the FDA has been set up and fiddled with the reporting can always villainize the FDA, have to report how the companies TRY to comply. I don't here any enthusiasm for actually delving into anyone for accountability. Its all caveat emptor now I should think with people even more in danger presuming everyone is doing their job as advertised. Five years of fraud which people plan their whole lives upon. Decades of mislabeled dosages. Addiction in a new market product sold as a cure. Legally they can claim they were trying- minimally- to work with the system.

The horror show is much larger and more systemic than just a few products I fear. They hardly even have to game the system as they rush to market while the agencies plod behind understaffed and overwhelmed by their own paper. So systemic it provides adequate cover that this is a deliberate intended result? The bureaucratic problems predate what you might suspect, but it certainly hasn't appeared to get any better.