"The FDA issued the deeming regulations on April 24, 2014. When the comment period closed earlier this month, almost 82,000 individual comments had been submitted on-line in response to the deeming regulations. "
No where near enough for our voice to be heard.
At least we have...
"In other words, the proposed tobacco deeming regulations are not in effect and will not become effective for an estimated 12 to 18 months because of these steps the FDA must follow in finalizing the deeming regulations. For retailers, this means that there will be no new federal tobacco regulations on cigars, pipe tobacco, e-cigarettes, hookah tobacco, nicotine gels, and dissolvables for the foreseeable future."