When the Obama administration finalized a rule in May of last year that classified vapor products as “tobacco,” it set in motion a two-year march towards the type of prohibition not seen since the early 1900s.
The “Deeming Rule” requires that manufacturers of vapor products and electronic cigarettes undergo a prohibitively-expensive and potentially-impossible retroactive pre-approval process at the Food and Drug Administration in order to continue selling products already available to adult consumers. Achieving what they never could with government coercion against cigarette use – consumer abstinence and the destruction of the industry – bureaucrats and science-deniers at organizations like the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids are hoping that no one in the Trump administration takes a second look.
