Document ID: FDA-2014-N-0189-6501
Agency: fda
Document Type: Supporting & Related Material
Title: 
Posted Date: 2014-06-17T04:00Z

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General Comment:hello I am a previous smoker for about 20 years. I can tell you now that it was a horrible experience trying to quit. It was so discouraging to try and fail.I was always sick with bronchitis, and lung infections. But it did not matter. I still smoked cigarettes. When cigarettes got to be to expensive. I switched to cigars. And then my health took a drastic turn for the worse. More lung infections. More severe bronchitis. One day I sat down and felt a sharp pain in my left lung. I couldn't breathe. I couldn't talk..After that ordeal and quite a scare to say the least. I decided to try once again to quit smoking. So after some research my husband  found out about some new e cigarettes that had came out. He did extensive research into what the liquid was made of, and all such things. My husband smoked heavier than I did. And his health was suffering also. He also smoked longer than I did. So he and I went on the ecigarette journey. At first we tried many different kinds of products. We also watched P. Busardo's video's on you tube in our research to be able to get good reviews and his videos helped us a great deal. So after a month or two we were strictly using ecigarettes. We quickly became more healthy. We also got our sense of smell back. What everyone else was smelling when we smoked. DEAR GOD it was horrible. So we cleaned EVERYTHING in our house, including the walls to get the chemical smell from when we smoked cigarettes out of our house.Now we actually feel better than we have in years. I can breathe better. We can go for walks without running out of breath. Now instead of a cigarette smell in our house. Its filled with good smells. Our food tastes better. We haven't smoked a cigarette nor cigar in over a year. And our lives are better for it. Its all been because of ecigarettes. My mother was a heavy smoker. She also has COPD. And congestive heart failure. We got her smoking ecigarettes. Her doctor praises them saying her lungs look better. She can do  her breathing exercises without struggle. There are so many health benefits to them I cant list them all. All I can speak of is from my own experience. And while I agree that they should be regulated. What I am hearing about is plain ridiculous. There is NO smoke that comes from them at all. And to ban them is in my opinion against our rights as U.S citizens.  The sale of Ecigs and ecig juice shouldnt be banned. And No its NOT toxic to the point that one drop of eliquid will kill someone, that statement is just silly. If the device is used properly then its perfectly safe. If its said that in order to buy them someone has to be over a certain age. Then that is alright as long as it goes no further than that. The sale of the products in my opinion has helped so many people get their lives back. And its sad to see the government try to take that away from people. We cant allow this to happen. The powers that be need to leave this alone. Let people be happy for a change instead of trying to govern every aspect of someone's existence. No the companies that give the people this service shouldnt be punished by a bunch of taxes that would make it near impossible for them to stay in business. Meaning if that happened the consumer would have to spend alot more just in order to pay the government its share. Thats NOT fair. So while im alright for putting an age requirement of the sale of the products.. I am NOT alright with regulating it to where the companies suffer for it. Which in turn makes the consumer suffers to. And by banning online sales of the products your hurting people rather than helping people. The government needs to fix things that are really an issue. And leave this alone. The government has had adequate time to make regulations on this matter. We the people need adequate time to have our voices heard. Please give the people at least 180 more days to have our voices  heard concerning this matter.