Document ID: FDA-2014-N-0189-6732
Agency: fda
Document Type: Supporting & Related Material
Title: 
Posted Date: 2014-06-17T04:00Z

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

General Comment:Dear Mr. Zeller:

I am writing as an individual consumer to request an extension of the comment period for the Food and Drug Administration's ("FDA") Proposed Rule Deeming Tobacco Products to be Subject to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, as amended by the Family Smoking and Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (the "Proposed Rule") published at 79 Fed. Reg. 23,142 and Federal Register No. 2014-09491. On behalf of myself, I am requesting that the comment period for the Proposed Rule be extended by the FDA for an additional 105 days, from its current 75-day period, to 180 days.

I feel very strongly about e-cigarettes as an alternative to combustible cigarettes. That is an understatement. They have saved many of my friend's lives, and the company I work for now employs 25 people within its first year. That number will be growing, and regulating e-cigarettes to death will put a lot of people out of jobs around the country. I realize that the FDA has the authority under 21 CFR 10.40 to extend this time frame and that the FDA has exercised this authority on numerous occasions in the past. Please do so, you'll make a lot of former smokers happy.

Let me know what you think, I know y'all are getting overwhelmed with letters from angry former smokers. I never smoked cigarettes regularly, so I can speak with less emotion about it than most users whose lives vaping has saved.