Document ID: FDA-2014-N-0189-7583
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 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 my husband and 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 that are proposed for regulation.  The Proposed Rule asks about a hundred different question 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 research and providing thoughtful comments is limited.  I know the FDA took many years to come up with the rule, so I don't think it is unreasonable to allow the public a mere six months to comment on it.  This is our only opportunity as consumers to provide feedback to you.  

We feel very strongly about the value of e cigarettes as an alternative to old fashioned cigarettes.  My husband smoked cigarettes for 63 years; I myself smoked for 55 years.   We are now cigarette free for six months.  We are weaning ourselves off the nicotine that so enslaved us for so many years and hope to quit completely within the next year.  We are so grateful for the easiest way to quit tobacco smoking that has ever been invented.  PLEASE consider this request!!

Please consider our request for an extension of public comment and give us old smokers a chance of quitting after so many years.