Contact Organizations, such as AARP

[Vocalek]

There is strength in numbers. I don't know where, if anywhere at all, the AARP stands on this issue, but for what it is worth I just left the following message at the AARP's consumer contact form: Ask your Consumer Issues Question
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Will you please intercede with the FDA to prevent them from sabotaging the recovery of tens of thousands of former smokers who are using an electronic cigarette to maintain adequate levels of replacement nicotine? The FDA has confiscated shipments of electronic cigarettes and supplies, claiming that these are “medical devices” that have not been proven safe and effective.

I beg to differ. These are not being marketed as medical devices. To date, the Consumer Product Safety Commission has not received one report regarding their safety. We KNOW they are effective, as thousands and thousands of us who bought the product to partially replace our cigarettes have ended up replacing ALL of our tobacco cigarettes. And virtually all of us tried and failed to quit using FDA-approved products such as the patch, lozenges, and gum.

To date, over 10,000 people have signed the petition at http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/keep-life-saving-electronic-cigarettes-available. If the AARP would add their voice, perhaps big government would listen.

Please help! My brain does not function properly without adequate levels of nicotine, and I do NOT want to return to smoking tobacco.

If these products remain available, many thousands--perhaps millions--of older adults might be able to give up smoking and live a longer, healthier life.

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Ideas for other organizations that can be messaged from their websites?

I'm going to go look up the three idiots that first asked the FDA to step in: The AHA, ALA, and NCS. They will be hearing from me, too.

 

[Vocalek]

Emailed to info@lungusa.org

I will not donate a single penny to the American Lung Association until it reverses its stand against electronic cigarettes. Largely at the urging of the ALA and other large health associations, the FDA has confiscated shipments of electronic cigarettes and supplies, claiming that these are “medical devices” that have not been proven safe and effective. I beg to differ. These are not being marketed as medical devices. Nevertheless, the evidence, should it be required, does point to both the effectiveness and safety of these products.

Thousands and thousands of us who bought the product to partially replace our cigarettes have ended up replacing ALL of our tobacco cigarettes. And nearly all of us tried and failed to quit using FDA-approved products such as the patch, lozenges, and gum.
Furthermore, I searched the Consumer Product Safety Commission site and could not find a single report indicating that electronic cigarettes are unsafe.

To the contrary, in the two months that I have been inhaling nicotine vapor instead of tobacco smoke, my lungs have made a remarkable recovery. I no longer wheeze and cough up thick phlegm. Since I am still maintaining adequate levels of nicotine in my brain and body, I have not experienced the cognitive impairments, unhealthy weight gain, and eventual hypertension that usually accompany smoking cessation.

If these products remain available, many thousands--perhaps millions--of people might be able to give up smoking and live a longer, healthier life.

If they become unavailable, many of us who are now "former smokers" will find it necessary to return to smoking tobacco. The Lung Association's mission is "to prevent lung disease and promote lung health."
Sabotaging our recovery from tobacco smoking is antithetical to that mission.

 

[frightline]

Thanks for taking the bull by the horns! I also have an idea for now... stock up on supplies! Once the Fda gets going on this ,it is going to be a drawn out litigation process.I worked for the Government and i know the "processes" for things from the Fda.While they are fumbling around , thousands or millions will be dying from analogs!!! I quit 3 weeks ago and have had 10 to 14 join me with e cigs. i am not going back so..i thought ahead and stocked up for a few years worth.I can't say the same for the smoke juice mfgs. but the hardware is stocked up. I don't know if this is a correct reply but i needed to add it!I got about 3 years worth of gear and it still cost less than 3 months of analogs.