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> "I believe FDA posed the wrong questions for today's meeting," said Lauren Lempert, a law and policy specialist for the Center for Tobacco Control Research an
by ben509 8y ago
> "I believe FDA posed the wrong questions for today's meeting," said Lauren Lempert, a law and policy specialist for the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education at the University of California, San Francisco.
> Instead of debating the role of nicotine replacement and drug therapies, the agency "should be focusing on policies that will prevent youth initiation with e-cigarettes and addiction to nicotine,"
I've been noticing this form of argument... in case it's not clear why I find it strange: yes, for a hypothetical child it's ideal that he not get addicted in the first place. But you still have these children who are addicted, that's a real problem, so while it's useful to also consider prevention, a regulatory agency is mandated to address an actual problem.
- soared 8y agoWhy would you plan to continuously use band-aids when you could prevent getting cuts in the first place? It seems more important to address the source of the issue to prevent it from continuing to occur rather than only treating the symptoms. (Fixing the current is still important, but seems secondary to me)
- simion314 8y agoI think the issue is some previous data that we also discussed here, this data shows that if before we had N children smoking now we have N1 = 10*N children using the cool looking, sweet tasting, less harmful e-cigarettes. If we had N1 = N then I would consider it a good thing but unfortunately is not that, Btw I invented this numbers but the point still stands.