:44 NYC counsil on health.
1:31 Convienence store owners were there in fill force.
They feel unfairly targeted by the ordinaince meant to reduce the number of tobacco retailer licences.
2:21 Tobacco retailers who chose to sell e cigarettes will have to obtain a seperate license.
2:44 This hurts the dedicated e cigarette retail establishments.
3:29 Council member Peter Koo has been vocal about opposition of these bills.He and some other members are opposed because of legitimate concerns about the ever expanding black market.
5:48 Spike Babain raised the point that the FDA has recently aknowledged issue of THR and differing regulatiory process.
7:24 Two bills addressing the licensing caps on tobacco and e cigarette retailers.
9:20 Having your buisness devalued hurts far more than the original bills intend to. Sadly there is still a cap so there will be no new vape shops.
10:30 Unclear about when this goes to the full counsil (The answer to that is today)
11:50 Amending the bills language is very hard when stakeholders are turned away and denied meetings with the bills sponsors it is hard to participate in the legislative process.
14:00 Efforts to contact a lawmaker "We can't talk to those people" in refrence to industory stakeholders.
16:30 Are regular stakeholders ie the consumer also being turned away?
17:77 In Ny state legislature the testimony against a bill is something that is up to the discression of the bills sponsor.
19:19 These are the deep,deep cracks that the all tobacco is bad narritive are exposing in our legislators and the legislative process. If you ever needed proof of broken government this is it.
21:00 Everybody happy about the FDA's comments on THR last week?
21:09 Well don't be because this is what we see this week https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm570501.htm?utm_source=CTPPartnerTwitter&utm_medium=social&utm_term=gov&utm_content=pressrelease&utm_campaign=ctp-trc-ends
The real cost campaign
24:36 On the dangers of the misappropriation of the language of Anti-Smoking activists.
26:16 Words matter. https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm568923.htm
32:51 SAMMEC http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/flu-deaths-reality-check-1.1127442
35:51 Dog whistle words meant to appease.
42:42 The idea that nicotine alone is responsible for harm in it's use when it is in essence part of a whole.
44:11 Taking two steps foward and two steps back.
44:56 Why the vapor shop is so important.
47:00 More on concerns regarding the FDA's Real Cost Campagin.
