Document ID: FDA-2014-N-0189-29590
Agency: fda
Document Type: Supporting & Related Material
Title: 
Posted Date: 2014-06-27T04:00Z

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

General Comment:To Whom It Concerns,

I am writing to request an extension of the 'Comment Period' on the FDA's proposed Tobacco Deeming rule found on the Federal Register as No. 2014-09491 and as 79 Fed. Reg. 23, 142. 

I am requesting that the current 75 day period be extended an additional 105 days, for a total of 180 days.

There are quite a lot of issues to digest in these documents and I will need some time to compose an adequate response and feel that while and extended time to 180 days may be adequate to do this, that the 75 day period of time clearly is not.

I have strong concerns about the availability, access, and cost of e-cigarettes/vaporizers/eliquids when compared to normal cigarettes, and its alternatives, that are on the market now and in the foreseeable future. They also have made it possible for all 4 of my immediate adult family members to quit the use of smoking products, but I am deeply concerned with what this regulation will do to that if it is enacted as it stands. I need more information from both the FDA and the industry as to how this will impact consumers and why. This can only be done if we have the time to find the information and digest what it means.

 Just as I may be the only published member of my household on this subject, in so far as actually writing to you, I am sure there are many more that are similar, and in that light, these regulations affect more than just those who actually write in to you. It is my hope that you will consider that the community that are using these vaporizing products is much larger than the number who willingly contact you, and therefore the decisions you are making will have a much farther reaching implication for those who are out there using these vaporizing products than just the ones who are writing to you.

Thank you for your time and consideration in reading my request for the extension of time on the 'Comment Period' for these proposed regulations. 

If you wish to contact me, please do so.

Sincerely, Colin M