Document ID: FDA-2014-N-0189-8380
Agency: fda
Document Type: Supporting & Related Material
Title: 
Posted Date: 2014-06-18T04:00Z

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.

The Proposed Rule raises a number of significant issues and questions that are important and relevant to me, as a consumer of products and a seller 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 comments on these important questions is limited. Our industry must have
more time to do research and study this product.  We need to make the general public aware of this revolutionary invention andtake the time to actually let people know that this product is an alternative to tobacco, not a tobacco product.  If nicotine isgoing to lumpted into the tobacco industry than you will have to let the tomato, potato and green pepper industry that they willhave to limit the sale of their products due to the fact that they carry natural nicotine in them. I mean really, let's get realabout this already and take the time to give this a chance because tobacco in the past and vaporizers are our future. I have already spent many hours researching and dissecting these issues, but they take time. I know that the FDA took many yearsto even come up with idea of this Proposed Rule, so I do not think it is at all unreasonable to allow the public more time toget more research done and to comment on it. 

This is our only opportunity, as consumers, to provide our feedback. 

I feel very strongly about e-cigarettes and vaporizers as an alternative to combustible cigarettes. Quite simply, I firmly 
believe that they saved my life and the lives of so many. I wish these had been around 20 years ago, then maybe our great
grandparents would still be alive and dead from lung cancer because of second hand smoke. I wish to provide you with my 
personal story, as well as science- and evidence-based responses to your questions so that you can take my comment into account. 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. I would therefore ask that you do so here, so that all stakeholders have the opportunity to provide their comments on this proposed regulation.

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