Document ID: FDA-2014-N-0189-4978
Agency: fda
Document Type: Supporting & Related Material
Title: 
Posted Date: 2014-06-16T04:00Z

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

General Comment:Under the name of this website are the following words: “Your Voice in Federal Decision-Making.” If that is true, and the FDA wants to hear meaningfully from the people whose lives it affects, I respectfully ask that you extend the comment period from 75 days to 180 days for the FDA’s “Proposed Rule: Deeming Tobacco Products to Be Subject to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, as Amended by the FSPTCA” (the "Proposed Rule") published at 79 Fed. Reg. 23,142 and Federal Register No. 2014-09491. 

For the five-plus years that I have been a consumer of electronic cigarette products, I have anticipated FDA’s Proposed Rule with great concern and no small amount of anxiety. I want to provide a thorough response, but given the number and complexity of the issues FDA has raised, this is impossible to do by the current deadline.

E-cigarettes have made a profound difference in my life, and any action the FDA takes to affect e-cigarettes, will affect my life, profoundly. To provide the requested information will take more time than you have given me. I ask that the FDA exercise its authority under 21 CFR 10.40 to extend the deadline for comments on this important issue, as it has done numerous times in the past for other issues.

Thank you for your consideration.