The FDA recently appointed a new chief over the agency's center for tobacco products. Dr. Lawrence Deyton has a lengthy career that includes posts at Tobacco Free Kids and most recently as a company serving as an adviser to GlaxoSmithKline, maker of Nicorette. As you might imagine, this is more than a little unsettling. Dr. Siegel called the move a blatant conflict of interest.
The conflict of interest is particularly inappropriate because one of the very first orders of business of the Center for Tobacco Products under Zeller's leadership will be promulgating regulations for the products that will compete with pharmaceuticals for the smoking cessation market: namely, electronic cigarettes and some other alternative nicotine-delivery devices. These regulations will have a major impact on the profits of GlaxoSmithKline, the top seller of nicotine replacement drugs and what appears to be the primary (if only) pharmaceutical company for which Zeller did consulting work.
As an interesting side note, the FDA authenticated a 2009 letter from doctors and researchers at the FDA that accused the agency of favoring the pharma industry. I'm sure that has nothing to do with this appointment.
So let me see, we had Lawrence Deyton abruptly leave. We had the two corrupt guys leave (Recent press reports revealed extensive evidence of serious wrongdoing by Dr. Andrew von Eschenbach, Dr. Frank M. Torti, top FDA attorneys, Center and Office Directors, and many others in prominent positions of authority at FDA. As a result, Dr. Frank M. Torti, Acting Commissioner and the FDA’s first Chief Scientist, abruptly left the Agency.) over falsifying scientific data. This was all around 2009 when the FDA published their laughable http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/PublicHealthFocus/u… lab results in order to claim that an electronic cigarette is actually a medical device (you did say Deyton was with GSK…but that would pose no conflict of interest[pardon me while I laugh hysterically] (lost that one in court…no doubt).
Now we are approaching April 2013 and we have yet a new guy (Zeller) to propose "deeming" regulations on e cigs?
I am appalled by this!
The level and magnitude of this corruption is mind boggling.
As I mentioned in my last thread, thanks to e cigs and ECF I am a vaper!
I will no longer contribute 1 obsolete Canadian penny to them! Now that I am healthier, I don't need you Pharm either!
As for the FDA, you are seriously broken and clearly inept at managing what you have been given.
You are a disappointment to the American people and the world.
Nicotine cannot be banned, it will be around and I am sure I will find it if need be.
I am done with all of you.