Document ID: FDA-2014-N-0189-8879
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.

Within this proposal I see a significant number of issues and questions that are quite important to me as a consumer. The proposed rules brings up roughly 100 different questions I may respond to and I want to provide my input on many of these issues. Sadly I do not have the time to devote to addressing all of them in the allotted commenting period. This proposal has taken many years to be created so I do not think that asking for a mere six months is asking too much to form my response to these matters. This will be our only opportunity to voice our opinions as consumers.

I fell that e-cigarettes have greatly improved my life and I am very passionate about them. I wish to provide you with my personal story, as well as scientific and evidence based responses to your questions so that you may take my comment into account. I realize that the FDA is authorized 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 as the outcome could save our condemn the lives of millions of smokers.

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

Thanks,
Dustin Krochmalny
E-cigarette user of 5 years.