Document ID: FDA-2014-N-0189-4794
Agency: fda
Document Type: Supporting & Related Material
Title: 
Posted Date: 2014-06-16T04:00Z

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

General Comment:Dear Mr. Zeller:
I was a tobacco smoker for 52 years and have found that using a battery device and a clearomizer and flavored juices I can quit smoking. I have quit for 5 months so far and believe that I will be able to lower the nicotine to 0 at some time. I have already lowered the nicotine from 18 mg to 9mg.  I am feeling so much healthier so far and can breathe better and don't cough like I used to.
   
I am writing as an avid and seriously concerned 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. Please lengthen 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.

The Proposed Rule raises a number of significant issues and questions that are important and relevant to me, as a consumer of products that are proposed for regulation under the Proposed Rule. The Proposed Rule asks about a hundred different questions I might want to respond to. I want to provide my thoughts and comments on many of these issues, but my time to devote to researching and providing thoughtful comments on these important questions is limited. I have already spent many hours researching and dissecting these issues, but they take time. I know that the FDA took many years to even come up with the Proposed Rule, so I do not think it is at all unreasonable to allow the public a mere six months to comment on it. This is our only opportunity, as consumers, to provide our feedback. 

Under 21 CFR 10.40 to extend this time frame.  Please extend the time frame.

I appreciate your consideration of my request and am happy to discuss this issue with you further.