Document ID: FDA-2014-N-0189-6810
Agency: fda
Document Type: Supporting & Related Material
Title: 
Posted Date: 2014-06-17T04:00Z

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General Comment:I smoked cigarettes for 40 years and never thought I would be able to quit.  I tried everything, you name it, I tried it.  I would quit for awhile, weeks, a few months and then back to the cigarettes.  I obtained an electronic cigarette in August of 2013.  On August 6, 2013 I had my last cigarette and started using the electronic cigarette.  I have not smoked a tobacco cigarette since. I buy the lowest nicotine level and then mix it half and half with a no nicotine level.  So the nicotine is very little.  Sometimes I just have the 0 nicotine. I smoke more like someone who smokes a pipe,  not like the chain smoker I use to be. My hypertension is gone. My heart rate which was anywhere from high 90's to over 100+ is now down to 60.  When I wake up in the morning my throat isn't filled with mucus. I know I never would of been able to quit without an e-cigarette.  It's been a really good thing for me. I have lost weight because I exercise more because I can exercise more. It was the one horrible thing I did to myself and now I am free of it. E-cigs are not tobacco products, there is no tobacco involved. I believe that the tobacco industry wants  them regulated because they are loosing money and wants them to be taxed so they cost more and maybe not as attractive. Electronic cigarettes will save lives, lost time at work and health care costs. Every vape store I have ever been in does not sell their products to minors.  If they want to make that a law that's fine, but I am wondering what other restrictions they want to impose.  If it isn't broke why are you trying to fix it?  Could you please keep this comment area open for 180 days so more people can chime in with their views?