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30 tobaccoasia C M Y CM MY CY CMY K For more information please contact Heinrich Burghart GmbH is@burghart.net www.burghart.net The Burghart PENTAGON is a fully automated 20 port rotary smoking machine which was designed to smoke up to 400 cigarettes in accordance to both ISO 3308 and Canada Intense. It is equipped with two single piston pumps to allow smoking two cigarettes in parallel. The automated process of the PENTAGON includes: loading the cigarette holders; lighting the cigarettes; controlling the lighted cigarettes via a BLC sensor; changing of the Cambridge filters – capacity of the Cambridge filter magazine: 20 pieces. The complete operation is controlled by a touch screen PC. All measurement parameters and results are stored automatically and are available for printout as well as for further analysis. better by burghart ! • Unique lab equipment • Quality made in Germany • For more than 55 years The tobacco industry could be a good example here, but we can turn to another industry that the FDA loves to hate – the sports and dietary supplement industry – for another great ex- ample. The most popular and well-studied sports supplement to date is creatine monohydrate: there are well over a thousand studies that demonstrate its remarkable effectiveness and an ex- cellent safety profile. But should you decide to throw together a scare-mongering hatchet job of a story about the evils of cre- atine, you can definitely cherry-pick your way through the stud- ies to make creatine look like a stomach-cramp and diarrhea- inducing pile of useless chalky powder. Vaping has almost none of creatine's credentials, but e-cig- arette manufacturers would do well to keep it in mind while working on e-cigarette legislation with the FDA, should they ever be confronted by studies that "prove" their products are evil incarnate. Although one opportunity to work with the government on formulating legislation has largely been missed, since the new FDA regulations it just put forth had been worked on with- out much if any input from the e-cigarette manufacturers, they should take pains to make sure that the next round of legislation will be worked on with their full participation. There is no doubt it behooves the e-cigarette industry to take such advice seriously instead of celebrating the fact that the new FDA regulations were not as draconian as they had feared they might be. It is well worth remembering that in 2011, the FDA announced its inten- tion to regulate e-cigarettes as tobacco products. This ominous statement is a sure sign that the current set of rules will not spell the end of the industry's troubles. cigarettes in several specific locations like schools, workplaces, and correctional facilities. This is not to say, of course, that vaping is necessarily 100% safe or that no legitimate health concerns exist when it comes to e-cigarettes. A recent story in the New York Times discusses one such concern: apparently, the number of cases linked to mistakenly ingesting e-liquids used to flavor e-cigarette vapor jumped to 1,351 (a 300% increase from 2012 to 2013), and ac- cording to the National Poison Data System, the number is set to double in 2014. Such data are indeed troubling and much remains to be done to improve these products' safety profile, perhaps through implementing some standardization measures. But what better reason to work together with the FDA in formulating the next round of regulations, rather than waiting for a knee-jerk reaction from the government? Besides, the in- dustry needs to put these numbers in perspective. "In total, there were approximately 172,800 calls that came in [about] poisoning from medicines, household cleaning products and pesticides. The e-liquids are not anymore dangerous then these products in the household," says Dennis Steele from NEK Vapor. But he stresses that his company uses proper labeling and child-proof caps on their glass bottles. This is just one area where e-cigarette and e-liquid makers can work proactively with the FDA to enact and enforce such measures that are clear and easy to implement and would be of immeasurable long-term benefit to just about everyone concerned. Another point to make is that the e-cig industry should not be afraid of promoting and perhaps sponsoring more research on their products. Even research that might show such product to be less than 100% safe should be taken in stride.