All I know is we got the right guy leading the FDA: a cancer survivor who knows the value of time, with less patience than the standard Schmo for clinical trial after clinical trial...
The public has been going "green" for years now... connect the dots: we're waking up to pesticides, parabens, phthalates, etc. Stranger things HAVE happened... look at mjna legalization... regulatory measures CAN change... or be experimented with, at the least.
Gottleib knows XXII's tech works... he couldn't care less about the public dialogue phase... that's political talk for this is happening sooner or later...
“The overwhelming amount of death and disease attributable to tobacco is caused by addiction to cigarettes—the only legal consumer product that, when used as intended, will kill half of all long-term users,” said FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb. “Unless we change course, 5.6 million young people alive today will die prematurely later in life from tobacco use."