Document ID: FDA-2014-N-0189-5993
Agency: fda
Document Type: Supporting & Related Material
Title: 
Posted Date: 2014-06-17T04:00Z

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

General Comment:This is to request that you extend the comment period for the Proposed Rule Deeming Tobacco Products (etc., RIN: 0910-AG38; 79 Fed. Reg. 23,142, Federal Register No. 2014-09491) from 75 days to 180 days. 

I am committed to electronic cigarettes, having switched to them after smoking for 55 years, during which time no other cessation method worked for me. Since this comment period is the only opportunity the FDA has afforded me, as an individual consumer, to provide input to the process, I feel obliged to proceed carefully and in as informed and thoughtful a way as possible; 75 days is simply not enough time to analyze 241 pages plus the Economic Impact Analysis and to prepare and forward to you my substantive comments and suggestions.

I therefore ask you to do as you have done in the past and exercise your authority under 21 CFR 10.40 to extend the comment period to 180 days.