FDA and e-cigarettes: Your action needed now.
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Thanks SJ for making me aware of the quickly-approaching deadline for this! I haven't been hanging around on ECF for a little bit, so the E-News email was a little surprise, and had the right effect - snap to attention and throw my voice into the mix.
Thanks SJ for making me aware of the quickly-approaching deadline for this! I haven't been hanging around on ECF for a little bit, so the E-News email was a little surprise, and had the right effect - snap to attention and throw my voice into the mix.
Finally did get my comment submitted. 1jx-834g-fe3p. I will keep encouraging everyone to do this.
Comments are due tomorrow. If you haven't submitted yet what are you waiting for?
Everyone needs to let them know how they feel. Typical situation where if someone isnt given direct information about something they assume the worst. We must have our voice heard! I will not go back to analogs!
Just submitted mine. Everyone should remind all friends and family about this. FB people. We need the support.
Confirmation number: 1jx-8341-c3ci
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To whom it may concern:
I have been a smoker for about 20 years, I started smoking at the age of 13 and have been a pack-a-day smoker since. Over the years I have tried, and failed, many times to kick the habit. Previous to my usage of e-cigarettes, I had tried gums, patches, even prescriptions drugs (THOSE need to be banned). My most successful previous attempt was cold turkey, I made it two weeks without a single cigarette, I also gained 10 lbs and lost a lot of friends. I became so irritable, and unbearable. The slightest little thing would make me snap and start yelling at people, I decided to pick up a pack again and went back to normal.
Now I am attempting to quit via e-cigarette, and let me tell you. It blows the rest out of the water. I have been smoke free for more than a month at this point, I literally have not had a craving for a cigarette since I started e-cigarettes, I am starting to see positive health effects too. I sleep better at night, feel less winded at the golf course and when climbing the stairs at work, and I no longer smell like an ash tray.
I have been gradually stepping down my doses of nicotine, reduced by roughly half at this point, I have a friend who is already on nicotine free juice and he has been at it over a month and a half. I dont think I will have the capability to drop that much that quickly. Being that each of us is an individual I feel that placing time limits on NRTs is a mistake and may reverse the intended effect, and it may be better to increase the nicotine each piece provides than to have people be forced to change products, especially when considering how difficult it is to kick this nasty habit.
I have been amazed at the rapid innovation in this sector; to ban this would be like banning penicillin. Just because the large pharmaceutical companies oppose this, and lets face it, you are all incompetent money grubbing douche bags. Who probably will not even read this far into the paper, but will rule what you were paid by big pharmaceutical companies to rule, and lets not forget the tobacco companies, they have been bathing D.C. in cash for longer than I, and most likely you, have been alive. To stifle this innovative product is to condemn those of us who have finally found our way out of the grips of tobacco, it is to make for larger medical bills that we cannot afford to pay, in short; banning e-cigarettes is bad for the country.
I use e-liquid in various flavors; this makes it easy to suit my taste, whether it be after a meal and I am craving something sweet, or mid day and just need something light to perk me up. This kills two birds with one stone, I am further improving my health because I make less trips to the soda machine, the vending machines, and in general consume less foods that will further injure my health.
I also insist that you not propose the Deeming regulation because it would ban e-cigarettes, would sharply increase the price, and reduce the availability to all of us who have become successful, and stifle those who would be successful in quitting smoking. Even if you were to exempt e-cigarettes from the onerous, and outright incorrect provisions in chapter IX.
For the love of Pete, how many people have not even attempted to quit via e-cigarettes because youre your inaccurate and/or misleading text, This product is not a safe alternative to smoking. My big white ...! Last time I checked there is no tar, about 1000% less carcinogens, and no by smoke from an e-cig. In fact the carcinogens present are about the same as products you do endorse, such as patches and gums.
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To whom it may concern:
I have been a smoker for about 20 years, I started smoking at the age of 13 and have been a pack-a-day smoker since. Over the years I have tried, and failed, many times to kick the habit. Previous to my usage of e-cigarettes, I had tried gums, patches, even prescriptions drugs (THOSE need to be banned). My most successful previous attempt was cold turkey, I made it two weeks without a single cigarette, I also gained 10 lbs and lost a lot of friends. I became so irritable, and unbearable. The slightest little thing would make me snap and start yelling at people, I decided to pick up a pack again and went back to normal.
Now I am attempting to quit via e-cigarette, and let me tell you. It blows the rest out of the water. I have been smoke free for more than a month at this point, I literally have not had a craving for a cigarette since I started e-cigarettes, I am starting to see positive health effects too. I sleep better at night, feel less winded at the golf course and when climbing the stairs at work, and I no longer smell like an ash tray.
I have been gradually stepping down my doses of nicotine, reduced by roughly half at this point, I have a friend who is already on nicotine free juice and he has been at it over a month and a half. I dont think I will have the capability to drop that much that quickly. Being that each of us is an individual I feel that placing time limits on NRTs is a mistake and may reverse the intended effect, and it may be better to increase the nicotine each piece provides than to have people be forced to change products, especially when considering how difficult it is to kick this nasty habit.
I have been amazed at the rapid innovation in this sector; to ban this would be like banning penicillin. Just because the large pharmaceutical companies oppose this, and lets face it, you are all incompetent money grubbing douche bags. Who probably will not even read this far into the paper, but will rule what you were paid by big pharmaceutical companies to rule, and lets not forget the tobacco companies, they have been bathing D.C. in cash for longer than I, and most likely you, have been alive. To stifle this innovative product is to condemn those of us who have finally found our way out of the grips of tobacco, it is to make for larger medical bills that we cannot afford to pay, in short; banning e-cigarettes is bad for the country.
I use e-liquid in various flavors; this makes it easy to suit my taste, whether it be after a meal and I am craving something sweet, or mid day and just need something light to perk me up. This kills two birds with one stone, I am further improving my health because I make less trips to the soda machine, the vending machines, and in general consume less foods that will further injure my health.
I also insist that you not propose the Deeming regulation because it would ban e-cigarettes, would sharply increase the price, and reduce the availability to all of us who have become successful, and stifle those who would be successful in quitting smoking. Even if you were to exempt e-cigarettes from the onerous, and outright incorrect provisions in chapter IX.
For the love of Pete, how many people have not even attempted to quit via e-cigarettes because youre your inaccurate and/or misleading text, This product is not a safe alternative to smoking. My big white ...! Last time I checked there is no tar, about 1000% less carcinogens, and no by smoke from an e-cig. In fact the carcinogens present are about the same as products you do endorse, such as patches and gums.
Agency: FDA
Document ID: FDA-2012-N-1148-0011
Your Comment Tracking Number: 1jx-834k-cw14
Document ID: FDA-2012-N-1148-0011
Your Comment Tracking Number: 1jx-834k-cw14
Sent mine, covered all the points. I also made sure to mention that I just recently had a whole plethora of tests run before having my thyroid removed. (Graves) Turns out I'm healthy as a horse besides the autoimmune problems. All my blood work short of those particular numbers were textbook perfect. Clear chest x-ray, normal EKG if you don't count the Graves related tachycardia and arrhythmia. 
Pretty dang good for an ex 30 year smoker and 3 year vaper.
Pretty dang good for an ex 30 year smoker and 3 year vaper.
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i went a bit of a different route and first mentioned the health effects but ALSO the fact that shops help the local economy and create jobs. i know that even if they outlaw them entirely it wont stop people from shipping from china...
i went a bit of a different route and first mentioned the health effects but ALSO the fact that shops help the local economy and create jobs. i know that even if they outlaw them entirely it wont stop people from shipping from china...
This CASAA blog post should help explain why e-cigarette users should be concerned about this: CASAA: CASAA testifies at FDA hearing
It's important to remember that while e-cigarettes that do not make smoking cessation claims will not be regulated as NRT, per the FSPTCA the FDA now has the power to regulate tobacco products. The category of "tobacco products" includes any product made of or derived from tobacco leaves and that is not approved by the FDA as a smoking cessation product. (This would probably not include non-nicotine solutions that make no treatment claims nor nicotine that is not derived from tobacco. However, most e-cigarette users today use e-cigarettes that contain nicotine from tobacco. The FDA would most likely require e-cigarette companies that claim an exemption as a non-tobacco nicotine product to prove that they are 100% tobacco nicotine-free. But this is just speculation.) The FDA is also tasked by Congress via FSPTCA to start looking into approving "modified risk" products.
So, the FDA has the power to proclaim whatever kind of regulations it sees fit upon e-cigarettes. However, at this time the FDA is considering allowing NRT to be used longer than the current 12-week recommended time. Big Pharma is lobbying for this, as well, which is why they have been working so hard behind the scenes to get e-cigarettes banned. E-cigarettes would be far more appealing as a long-term modified risk product than gums and patches and they know it. Unfortunately, the FDA is still intending to impose an end date (quit date) on NRT use, though longer than the current 12 weeks. We are arguing that there should be no end date - smokers should be encouraged to use smoke-free products as long as THEY deem necessary to remain smoke-free (as opposed to an arbitrary timeframe.) This would mean smokers would be using NRT essentially the same way most vapers use e-cigarettes - as an alternative to smoking rather than just as a way to nicotine abstinence. If the FDA approved NRT for such use, it's in our favor to argue that e-cigarettes should be regulated in the same way - as a modified risk product, rather than an NRT or a high-risk tobacco product - when they issue their deeming regulations on e-cigarettes. To put it very simply, as former smokers who quit by using a nicotine product long-term, we support long-term use of NRT because that would make it harder to argue against e-cigarettes also being used for the same intent. It basically opens the door for validation of e-cigarettes as a modified risk product.
Hope that helps.
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