09-25-2019, 11:07 AM
(09-25-2019, 09:36 AM)fenders53 Wrote: Proving your product is much safer that cigarettes seems like a low hurdle.
Claiming it is much safer based on things like what is in the product, that is a low hurdle. In fact that is what e-cig people have been saying all the time.
Actually proving it takes several decades at a minimum.
This doesn't only apply to cigarettes, it applies to pretty much everything. To have actual reliable data on health effects, you need a study that spans decades. Now obviously this is not a requirement for the regulatory side, otherwise anything from food products to medicine would take several decades of studies before it could be sold. (and it would be hard to do those studies without real consumers) I have no doubt they can figure out the regulatory side.
Public opinion is another matter, and ultimately the one that decides how this thing ends.