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Back in July, Oregon became the first state to sort of  “ban” the sale of electronic cigarettes, after this report was released.

Within days of that report, the state government here in Oregon acted quickly and heroically to protect us,  pulling a couple of products off the shelf.

The local TV and radio news was busy for two days talking about Oregon’s supposed “banning” of electric cigarettes.

This turned out to not be  true, and I spoke to the Oregon DOJ about their Ecig decision, but the damage was done, and the industry took a black eye here in Oregon.

In a last minute stay of execution,  Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has vetoed California Senate Bill 400, which among other things, would have made the sale of ALL electronic cigarettes in California illegal to anyone.

In a message regarding the veto to members of the California State Senate he sent the following:

To the Members of the California State Senate:
I am returning Senate Bill 400 without my signature.

While I support restricting access of electronic cigarettes to children under the age of 18, I cannot sign a measure that also declares them a federally regulated drug when the matter is currently being decided through pending litigation.

Oregon has not banned the sale of electronic cigarettes, a.k.a smokeless cigarettes!

At least, that’s my position, and I’m making efforts to clarify that officially.

Based on news stories that appeared on our local television news, and subsequent reprints of an AP article and other news sources all over the web, people are mis-reporting the information.

What does it say?
The way I read the article, only two stores were affected in the entire state, and only one brand of the product.

Listen for yourself to the audio file of the FDA’s press conference right here.

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We found this file while poking around on the FDA site, and in the beginning, they say it’s coming down in a few days… huh? Isn’t it a matter of public record? Well it is now…

If you’ve been reading any of the biased and corrupt media reporting, they make it sound like the FDA has determined that electric cigarettes are just as harmful as regular cigarettes.

Yesterday was not a good day for the electric cigarette industry in the United States, as the news media seems to be incorrectly reporting that the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) has officially declared the electric cigarette harmful!

Reading the news stories, like this one at CNN offer us very little actual “news” or information about what’s actually in this FDA report, and they give no way to find out any more information. It’s an editorial, disguised as news!

They say claim this, for example -
The FDA is concerned about the safety of these products and how they are marketed to the public,” said Dr. Margaret A. Hamburg, commissioner of the FDA.

Theres some really disturbing news from the US government this week, that the FDA is actually going to be regulating nicotine as a drug.

The bill has passed the House, passed the Senate, and currently sits in Obama’s inbox in the Oval Office.

Theoretically, this could severely impact your ability to purchase one of these electric cigarettes as a US citizen. How ridiculous is that?

Here’s what NPR has to say, in an article written yesterday:

“It’s a bill that’s been more than 10 years in the making — supported by Republicans and Democrats, President Obama and, more surprisingly, by the nation’s largest tobacco company — Philip Morris.”