Letter: FDA Needs To Better Regulate Vaping Products


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Letter: FDA Needs To Better Regulate Vaping Products
Letter: FDA Needs To Better Regulate Vaping Products

Editor:

Nothing about vaping is protected. Nonetheless, many kids and youths — and even their mother and father! — view disposable vapes as “newbie pleasant” and “safer” than conventional cigarettes. Advertising and marketing techniques resembling colourful packaging and youth-based flavoring components proceed to draw children in rising numbers.

This has produced a vaping disaster. Hundreds of thousands of kids are impacted by these unregulated merchandise, inhaling harmful ranges of nicotine, tobacco, and different health-adverse chemical compounds. A latest research exhibits center college utilization is especially on the rise.

It’s time for our federal authorities to behave to finish this pattern now.

Greater than 2.5 million youth reported utilizing e-cigarettes in 2022.

Of these, an alarming 85% opted for fruit-flavored varieties relatively than conventional cigarette flavoring.

This disproportionate quantity is not any accident, however relatively the results of focused and predatory practices utilized by disposable vape producers throughout the USA. Kids usually tend to search out and use e-cigarettes if they’ve engaging flavors and attention-grabbing labeling, and producers realize it.

Whereas technically unlawful, the FDA has been trying the opposite manner whereas these merchandise make their manner into our grocery shops with out federal approval.

As a state consultant, mom, and daughter of a pulmonologist, I’m troubled that nearly 6,000 types of e-cigarettes can be found to our youth, but none of those merchandise have undergone federal approval.

To this point, the FDA has approved solely 23 tobacco-flavored e-cigarette merchandise and gadgets, none of that are disposable vaping merchandise. Whereas disposable vapes are made to be bigger and stronger, they’re cheaper and extra accessible than ever.

This can be a harmful mixture for our kids, making it simpler for them to entry nicotine-filled merchandise with no safeguards.

The FDA should dwell as much as its obligation and duty and start imposing the rules it put into place over three years in the past.

Pennsylvania can paved the way in the case of defending our kids from the hazards of vaping.

I strongly assist any motion Sen. (Bob) Casey and Home Rep. (Mary Homosexual) Scanlon take with the FDA to raised regulate e-cigarette merchandise. Kids are being focused and subsequently hooked on nicotine, and our federal authorities is permitting it.

We should name on the FDA to behave swiftly and successfully to place an finish to this public well being disaster.

State Rep. Lisa Borowski,
Democrat, 168th District

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In appreciation of O’Connor vote on abuse of monkeys

Editor:

PETA will without end be grateful to former Supreme Courtroom Justice Sandra Day O’Connor for her compassionate assist within the landmark Silver Spring monkeys case. She was a part of a unanimous majority within the first U.S. Supreme Courtroom ruling in favor of animals utilized in experiments.

PETA’s investigation contained in the Silver Spring, Maryland, laboratory of experimenter Edward Taub, funded by the Nationwide Institutes of Well being, revealed that he was severing monkeys’ spinal nerves, rendering a number of of their limbs ineffective. By way of electrical shocks, meals deprivation, and different merciless strategies, he then pressured them to attempt to use these injured limbs.

When police raided the ability, they discovered barrels of useless monkeys floating in formaldehyde and monkeys affected by contaminated wounds attributable to the damaged, rusty, filthy cages by which they had been pressured to dwell.

Taub was the primary experimenter to be arrested for and convicted of cruelty to animals, and people monkeys grew to become the primary ever to be confiscated from a laboratory. The U.S. Supreme Courtroom reversed a decrease court docket ruling and allowed PETA and its co-plaintiffs to hunt custody of the remaining monkeys in order that they might dwell in peace.

PETA urges everybody to observe the sort instance that O’Connor set by asking Congress to assist our Analysis Modernization Deal, which might redirect funds away from merciless and pointless experiments and towards superior, state-of-the-art, animal-free, human-relevant analysis. It may be learn at PETA.org/RMD.

Ingrid Newkirk
President, Individuals for the Moral Therapy of Animals

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Stats present velocity cameras have little affect on work zone speeds

Editor:

The reply to any actual or perceived downside of dashing in work zones is engineering countermeasures, not velocity lure cameras.

Though PennDOT credit velocity cameras with a discount in speeds and crashes the place they’re used, a assessment of the Annual Automated Work Zone Pace Enforcement (AWZSE) stories exhibits little to no security profit from the usage of velocity cameras in work zones.

In accordance with the month-to-month Pace Statistics from every report from the start of this system in March 2020 via December 2022, there was just about no change in both the proportion of drivers touring over the posted velocity restrict or the proportion of drivers touring 11+ mph over the velocity restrict (extreme velocity).

Additional, statistical evaluation of the velocity information of:

1) 2020 vs 2021

2) 2021 vs 2022

3) 2020 vs 2022

… discovered no statistical distinction indicating that any variation within the measured speeds was as a result of random fluctuation, not as a result of presence of ticket cameras.

The stories don’t present information on accidents and fatalities. That is doubtless as a result of truth accidents and fatalities to development staff as a result of autos exceeding the velocity restrict in work zones is exceedingly uncommon. The overwhelming majority of those accidents and fatalities are as a result of accidents involving development actions and development tools, not passing motorists.

Pace cameras in work zones (Home Invoice 1284) are pointless besides to lift income. Inform your state consultant and senator to vote no on WorkZone Pace Lure Invoice HB 1284.

Tom McCarey,
Berwyn


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