Document ID: FDA-2014-N-0189-7840
Agency: fda
Document Type: Supporting & Related Material
Title: 
Posted Date: 2014-06-18T04:00Z

Comment Info: =================

General Comment:A 75 day period time to review the proposed regulations is absolutely insufficient. We are requesting that the review period be extended to 180 days

Vaping, vapor and vaporizing IS NOT A TOBACCO PRODUCT! There is NO TOBACCO (or any of the other 7,000+ cancer causing carcinogens) .... WHATSOEVER .... in vaporizing. There's only propylene glycol, vegetable glycerin, added flavoring and some juice manufacturers may include water and nicotine. Vapor is no more harmful that the fog you find at the local discotech or in London. Vaping has got me off of cigarettes, something that I've been smoking and slowly killing myself and those around me with for over 35 years! The only carcinogen in Vaping and/or Vapor MIGHT be ... I repeat, MIGHT BE .... a minute amount of residual nicotine and that's only if one has nicotine added to their juice AND it still can't been found even in laboratory tests. Vaping does not need to be under the control of the FDA aka Big Tobacco Cos. because it's NOT HARMFUL AND NEEDS NO REGULATION OR OVERSIGHT! Big Tobacco is losing money because of Vaping. And since I'm being BOMBARDED with your anti-smoking commercials every 10 minutes on the TV I've decided to take you, the government, up on it and quit smoking :)  So it should be no surprise that when a totally safe alternative to smoking is introduced,  AND being taken advantage of, that Big Tobacco would sponsor ridiculous laws and regulations like this. Vaping has been around since the 1970s. Why all of this now? Have YOU, the government, done any testing in that time? What are the results? I can't find any government sponsored tests or results anywhere!

If you put this under the control of Big Tobacco .... err the FDA .... all it will do is make it too expensive and inaccessible to people like me. Part of the reason I quit smoking is because I can't afford it anymore thanks to you, the government, taxing me to death! Vaping is a cheap and TO-TAL-LY safe alternative that I've been able to successfully transition over to. Take it away from me and I will simply go underground with it. Mixing my own juice would be too easy as I already know how. With this action you've forced many of to learn how. Frankly I'm not sure why I still buy my juice from vendors still since I can mix my own. I just need to pick up the non lethal, totally safe, totally unregulated and LEGAL items that have been sold over the counter for about a hundred years. Amazing what one can do, what one is capable of and what lengths one will go to when one is pushed into a corner.