Document ID: FDA-2014-N-0189-10953
Agency: fda
Document Type: Supporting & Related Material
Title: 
Posted Date: 2014-06-19T04:00Z

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

General Comment:     I respectfully request that the comment period of 75 days be extended an additional 75 days.  I am preparing a counter-proposal on behalf of the vaping community.  A few simple enhancements of your current proposal could result in legislation that is energetically supported by the vaping community, hospitals, the pharmaceutical industry, and other impacted corporations, industries, agencies and institutions, pretty much everyone with skin in this game except the Cigarette manufacturers.  While my counter-proposal is not as complex and nuanced as your proposal, it is a fairly detailed report on the vaping community and the vaping industry.  My counter-proposal studies the serious economic impact that the exponential growth of vaping has on local and State governments, the Federal  government, and the substantial international economic significance of transiting away from a tobacco dependent society too quickly.

     My counter-proposal offers a wide range of unique solutions to the FDA that will promote public health, decelerate growth of the vaping industry to a rate that is much less threatening to the economy, protect children from exposure to smoking and vaping products, respects the perceived rights of the vaping community and offers guidance for fair and appropriate taxation and regulation of the vaping industry.

     Once my initial counter-proposal is prepared, I need to submit it to my peers for review, correction, annotation and rewriting prior to submitting it to you.  I need more time.  Please give me an extra 75 days to do this.  It's very important that we get this right.