by James Bovard. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is finalizing regulations that could ban the sale of most of the cigars currently available in the United States. The FDA
last year uncorked a 241-page, 70,000 word barrage of proposed
restrictions on the sales and marketing of tobacco products. Some
congressmen are pushing back against the ... MORE
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The Nanny State Sets Its Sights On The Stogie Set
by James Bovard. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is finalizing regulations that could ban the sale of most of the cigars currently available in the United States. The FDA
last year uncorked a 241-page, 70,000 word barrage of proposed
restrictions on the sales and marketing of tobacco products. Some
congressmen are pushing back against the ... MORENullification Rising: Minnesota Invalidates FDA Restrictions
by Bob Adelman. When Minnesota State Representative Nick Zerwas was 15 years old, he was told he had only months to live. Informed that he wouldn’t be able to get a heart transplant, Zerwas was told by his doctor that he might be saved by a surgical procedure that was still experimental. Said Zerwas: “That was my right to try. I fully believe life is ... MOREMeet Chuck Schumer, The Next Senate Minority Leader
by Nick Gillespie. A partial listing of some of things that the NY political hack has tried to ban. It's long been said that the most dangerous place in Washington is between Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and a TV camera. With news of the resignation of the historically awful Sen. Harry
Reid (D-Nev.), the odds are good that Schumer will now ascend ... MOREGilbert Ross: The Madness Of The War On E-Cigs
Corruption + distorted facts = clampdown on vaping. Is it mass insanity, or something even darker, that has led America’s public-health leaders to engage in a mass assault on electronic cigarettes? To put this in perspective, their target is not smoking, our number-one preventable health problem, but a product that could prove to ... MOREPublic Health Nannies Won't Admit: E-Cigs Save Lives
by Bill Godshall. In sharp contrast to the Trib's fear-mongering headlines and Adam Smeltz's news story “Western Pa. cancer specialists call for electronic cigarette crackdown”
, the scientific and empirical evidence indicates vaping is 99 percent
less hazardous than smoking cigarettes, is more effective for quitting
smoking than are FDA- ... MOREFDA Nannies Plan To Reduce Food Options For Americans
by Steve Chapman. Busybodies minding YOUR own business. On Thursday, hundreds of millions of Americans risked obesity, heart disease and indigestion by eating large quantities of food with no precise knowledge of the caloric content. If many of them felt regret on Friday, it was not because they were duped into overeating by the ... MOREFDA Regulatory Expansion Jeopardizes Public Health
Anti-cancer device in the crosshairs. In August, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has proposed expanding its regulatory authority over tobacco products
to include cigars, pipe tobacco, hookah tobacco, electronic cigarettes
(e-cigarettes), and dissolvable products and gels. Currently, cigars are
the most popular item in this group, but ... MOREWalter E Williams: Officially Killing Americans
Incentives of the drug bureaucrats. The Food and Drug Administration can make two types of errors. It can approve a drug that has dangerous unanticipated side effects, or it can reject or delay approval of a drug that is safe and effective. Let's look at these errors, because to err on the side of under- or over-caution is costly. ... MORE
Henry I. Miller: Life-Saving Drugs And Deadly Delays
Curious incentives on display. The Food and Drug Administration just granted permission for “expanded access” to an experimental medicine for Ebola. It’s OK as far as it goes, but it’s an exception to the FDA’s reluctance to approve the use of life-saving products. Safety and efficacy testing of the drug, designated TKM-Ebola, has barely ... MOREWalter E Williams: Who Owns You?
Who should decide your fate? Darcy Olsen, president of the Arizona-based Goldwater Institute, and Richard Garr, president of Neuralstem, a biotech company, wrote "Right to Try experimental drugs" in USA Today (5/28/2014). They pointed out that ... MOREFDA And Big Tobacco Join Forces To Choke Out E-Cigs
Anti-smoking device in the crosshairs. Depending on what happens next, the electronic tobaccoless smokes will either rot in the land of once-hyped forgotten gadgets, or would-be smokers will instead spend late nights puffing away in a hip sweet-smelling vape lounge with a beer in one hand and a pimped-out mod in the other. ... MOREJacob Sullum: The 'Tobacco Products' That Aren't
FDA's slow-motion ban of e-cigs. The option-reducers never rest. The first time the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) moved to
regulate electronic cigarettes, it tried to ban
them. Last month it took a different approach that may
ultimately have a similar effect. Much will depend on whether the
FDA irrationally decides to treat e-cigs ... MOREJohn Stossel: Bullies Rule
We're told government protects us, but protectors quickly become bullies. Take the Food and Drug Administration. It seems like the most helpful part of government: It supervises testing to make sure greedy drug companies don't sell us dangerous stuff. The FDA's first big success was stopping thalidomide, a drug that prevented the ... MORENick Gillespie: Kill The FDA (Before It Kills Again!)
Death by government. If you haven't seen The Dallas Buyers Club, which took home three Oscars last Sunday, you should. It's the most flat-out libertarian movie since Ghostbusters and one of the best message movies I can think of (of course, like all quality message movies, it's first and foremost a powerful piece of art). Specifically, it shines a ... MORE6 Shocking Studies That Prove Science Is Totally Broken
by Andrew Marinus, Alan Boyle and Jon Pearl. Even if you're not all that into science, it's still a big part of the
news that reaches you on a day-to-day basis -- you'll see interesting
headlines about how studies show marijuana cures loneliness or how other studies say pot ruins your memory, and you kind of just assume they're true. If scientists ... MORE
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