FDA and e-cigarettes: Your action needed now.
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Got my comment in with about 5 characters to spare. I also wrote my representative an email with a copy of the comment. I worked on his campaign so I hope he at least reads it...
Done and grateful for the chance to let my voice be heard!
Keep up the good work, guys!
Keep up the good work, guys!
I have the tab still opened for the site to leave comments, still loading...
i'll have to try from home and see if it's my work PC...
i'll keep trying tho-
i'll have to try from home and see if it's my work PC...
i'll keep trying tho-
I'm in. I'm actually very interested in any volunteer opportunities for our cause, as well.
Just spread the news on my blog, Facebook, Twitter...you name it. We're in this together.
Comment sent! Thanks to all who roam these pages! And those who sort them too, SmokeyJoe is the man
I thought I saw at least as many, if not more, Comments Received yesterday morning as today, though there are multiple people posting that they've left new comments.
No more comments are actually visible (no new ones since late last week), so I doubt it's the case that Gov has been reviewing them for listing and just happened to delete as many (for being invalid in some way) as are still coming in.
More bugs in their Web interface, hopefully comments are actually being received, not dropped on the floor.
No more comments are actually visible (no new ones since late last week), so I doubt it's the case that Gov has been reviewing them for listing and just happened to delete as many (for being invalid in some way) as are still coming in.
More bugs in their Web interface, hopefully comments are actually being received, not dropped on the floor.
Here is what I sent.
RE: Docket No. FDA-2012-N-1148
To whom it may concern,
My name is Robert M. Y. I am a 53-year-old male. I have been smoke free since 3/8/2009.
The first time I tried smoking I was twelve. By the time I was eighteen I was hooked and a pack and a half a day smoker. That was my average smoking rate in all those years. Sometimes a little less, sometimes a little more. But that was my habit.
Over the course of the years that I smoked, I tried many methods of quitting. Most of those methods I gave more than one shot from one time or another.
When in my middle 30's my Mom of all people paid for group hypnosis quit smoking event to try and help me. It did work, for a few days. But once I lit up, I was right back to a pack and a half again. In my 40's, I tried hypnosis again to the same result.
I have also tried the patch and the gum many times. All those methods did was to add to the expense because they to failed me.
I have tried the cold turkey method. Different ways of that method. Different ways by means of buying a carton and throwing the whole carton away as a symbolic I HAVE QUIT signal. FAILED! By way of setting dates to quit on. FAILED! Or just up and deciding that today I will quit smoking. FAILED!
My doctor suggested Chantix. I refused because there were just too many scary stories and plus I knew a few people that did try that route and their results. No thank you on that one.
But as you see, I tried many different things. All failed. The expense was climbing, but more importantly, my health was declining due to my heavy smoking. COPD was rearing its ugly head. Starting to prevent me from being able to do things that I enjoy such as heck, walking. My doctor confirmed this and put me on Advair and an inhaler to help my breathing. I knew something had to be done; I was trying and failing at each turn.
When I tried those methods, my mood would change. I would get edgy and anger easily. I am normally an easygoing person. But off cigarettes I would get down right ornery likely to bite someone's head off as to say hello to them.
Then one day my wife told me about a new gizmo called the electronic-cigarette. I listened to her and it piqued my interest. Then she told me that the store would start selling them. I asked her to get me one as soon as they came in. Then I started researching on the Internet. Hope came back to me. A few weeks later, the day before 3/8/2009 she brought home a package. It contained two batteries that were white that looked like a cigarette along with fifty cartridges that were pre-filled with e-juice in 18mg nicotine strength. I put the batteries on to charge. Then the next day I took my very first "drag" off of it. It did not taste like a traditional cigarette. After a few weeks of using this new fangled gadget called the electronic-cigarette it dawned on me. I CAN DO THIS!!!! So, it turned out that 3/8/2009 was my cigarette QUIT date!!! I have not picked up a cigarette since then and have since even cut my nicotine level to 12mg.
With this marvelous invention, I am enjoying a newfound health. I can walk again without huffing and puffing like an old steam engine. My doctor confirmed that my COPD was going away! I can taste again! I can smell things again! And to that fact, I must humbly apologize to non-smokers. I am sorry, I had no idea how badly a put out cigarette smelled, I had no idea how strong a cigarette smelled to a non-smoker.
I beg of anyone please do not take this away from me. I firmly believe that the electronic-cigarette not only changed my life, but also saved it!! If the electronic-cigarette is taken away from me I would go back to smoking, that is a given. Then my eventual death by cigarettes would be upon the person that took the electronic cigarette away from me.
I need and want the many flavors that I can get in e-juice. The flavors help keep me away from real cigarettes! I also need a variety of nicotine strengths. I use 12mg, my wife uses 16-18mg. Many people use 24mg. It varies from person to person and their previous smoking habit as to what is needed. So please do not take that away either.
The electronic-cigarette has saved my life, and I am willing to venture thousands of others!
Thank You for your time and consideration in this matter.
Robert M. Y.
RE: Docket No. FDA-2012-N-1148
To whom it may concern,
My name is Robert M. Y. I am a 53-year-old male. I have been smoke free since 3/8/2009.
The first time I tried smoking I was twelve. By the time I was eighteen I was hooked and a pack and a half a day smoker. That was my average smoking rate in all those years. Sometimes a little less, sometimes a little more. But that was my habit.
Over the course of the years that I smoked, I tried many methods of quitting. Most of those methods I gave more than one shot from one time or another.
When in my middle 30's my Mom of all people paid for group hypnosis quit smoking event to try and help me. It did work, for a few days. But once I lit up, I was right back to a pack and a half again. In my 40's, I tried hypnosis again to the same result.
I have also tried the patch and the gum many times. All those methods did was to add to the expense because they to failed me.
I have tried the cold turkey method. Different ways of that method. Different ways by means of buying a carton and throwing the whole carton away as a symbolic I HAVE QUIT signal. FAILED! By way of setting dates to quit on. FAILED! Or just up and deciding that today I will quit smoking. FAILED!
My doctor suggested Chantix. I refused because there were just too many scary stories and plus I knew a few people that did try that route and their results. No thank you on that one.
But as you see, I tried many different things. All failed. The expense was climbing, but more importantly, my health was declining due to my heavy smoking. COPD was rearing its ugly head. Starting to prevent me from being able to do things that I enjoy such as heck, walking. My doctor confirmed this and put me on Advair and an inhaler to help my breathing. I knew something had to be done; I was trying and failing at each turn.
When I tried those methods, my mood would change. I would get edgy and anger easily. I am normally an easygoing person. But off cigarettes I would get down right ornery likely to bite someone's head off as to say hello to them.
Then one day my wife told me about a new gizmo called the electronic-cigarette. I listened to her and it piqued my interest. Then she told me that the store would start selling them. I asked her to get me one as soon as they came in. Then I started researching on the Internet. Hope came back to me. A few weeks later, the day before 3/8/2009 she brought home a package. It contained two batteries that were white that looked like a cigarette along with fifty cartridges that were pre-filled with e-juice in 18mg nicotine strength. I put the batteries on to charge. Then the next day I took my very first "drag" off of it. It did not taste like a traditional cigarette. After a few weeks of using this new fangled gadget called the electronic-cigarette it dawned on me. I CAN DO THIS!!!! So, it turned out that 3/8/2009 was my cigarette QUIT date!!! I have not picked up a cigarette since then and have since even cut my nicotine level to 12mg.
With this marvelous invention, I am enjoying a newfound health. I can walk again without huffing and puffing like an old steam engine. My doctor confirmed that my COPD was going away! I can taste again! I can smell things again! And to that fact, I must humbly apologize to non-smokers. I am sorry, I had no idea how badly a put out cigarette smelled, I had no idea how strong a cigarette smelled to a non-smoker.
I beg of anyone please do not take this away from me. I firmly believe that the electronic-cigarette not only changed my life, but also saved it!! If the electronic-cigarette is taken away from me I would go back to smoking, that is a given. Then my eventual death by cigarettes would be upon the person that took the electronic cigarette away from me.
I need and want the many flavors that I can get in e-juice. The flavors help keep me away from real cigarettes! I also need a variety of nicotine strengths. I use 12mg, my wife uses 16-18mg. Many people use 24mg. It varies from person to person and their previous smoking habit as to what is needed. So please do not take that away either.
The electronic-cigarette has saved my life, and I am willing to venture thousands of others!
Thank You for your time and consideration in this matter.
Robert M. Y.
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Done! For all the good it'll do of course, I can't afford to bribe a pet official.
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