FDA at it again...tell your Representative

[Brewlady]

This requires all of us to take action.

The FDA is back actively detaining shipments from overseas:


http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/e-cigarette-news/152108-fda-seizing-new-shipments.html

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...-still-detaining-holding-e-cig-shipments.html

WE NEED TO LET OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS KNOW THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE.

There are a couple of neat tools on the web to track down the contact information for your elected represenatives.

https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml

U.S. Senate: Senators Home

Select your State and you are on your way.


Example of a short and sweet letter:

Dear ______________

Please tell the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to stop wasting taxpayer money on their attempts to ban electronic cigarettes as "unapproved drug-delivery devices." Two levels of the U.S. federal court system have told the FDA they cannot seize incoming shipments and that they should be regulating the products under the tobacco Act. Yet the FDA persists in wasting our tax dollars on filing more appeals. They also continue to seize incoming shipments in defiance of the court orders. That costs money, too.

[Insert personal story here]



The American Association of Public Health Physicians has stated that products like the electronic cigarette could save the lives of 4 million of the 8 million U.S. smokers who would otherwise die of smoking related disease within the next 20 years. The FDA is supposed to helps save lives. Please don't allow them to kill smokers. Contact me if you have any questions.

Sincerely,

Name
Address
Phone number

 

[GregH]

Giving this a bump. We all need to do this. It took me less than 20 minutes to write my representative and state Senators.

 

[Brewlady]

Bump for action

 

[Brewlady]

I submitted a complaint against the FDA for continuing to confiscate products in U.S. Customs:

Please use the form below to alert the Republican Staff of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform to fraud and abuse in your agency or other organization. Any personal information you provide us will be kept in strict confidence.


https://wb-gop-oversight.house.gov/

 

[Nashy08]

I sent one to my representative.

 

[The Big Chief]

Im curious whether we as consumers could just file a class action against fda? Technically there needs to be no harm done by my understanding to pursue such.

 

[The Big Chief]

well, I sent an email to ours, we'll see what it does...But Im convinced the FDA needs a nation wide class action suite against them.

 

[zadane]

already sent off my letters/

 

[btngchck]

Sent to all of those that I could.

Bump for a good cause.

 

[Zag]

sent one too...

 

[StormFinch]

Im curious whether we as consumers could just file a class action against fda? Technically there needs to be no harm done by my understanding to pursue such.

This has been brought up several times Chief, and our legal members seemed to think it wasn't feasible. I do however think that we need to be urging all of our suppliers to band together and hire a single legal council to intervene in the still open court case presided over by Judge Leon. We as consumers could then contribute to the lawyer fund to help out our suppliers. If the judge would allow the petition, and I think he probably would, they could all get their supplies cleared in a single move. With the current decisions only applying to njoy, each and every supplier and manufacturer would have to hire their own council and start their own court case otherwise, not affordable for our mom and pop places, and extremely expensive for the larger ones.

 

[Stosh]

Sent my comments to https://wb-gop-oversight.house.gov/, I'm in NJ and talking to my Senators is worse than talking to the FDA

 

[Cee_Jay]

Letters sent - although I'm sure it would take hundreds or thousands of them to make an impact. If the average citizen did what the FDA is doing in light of the courts ruling, they'd probably be arrested.

 

[Java_Az]

Sorry to say but my Representative is recovering from a bullet wound to the head. I think i will send a get well wishes letter first , then after some time passes i will send one about the FDA. Sorry to say it but i think she would be the only one of my Representatives that would listen. But i guess i can write the others.

 

[eGo Maniac]

Sent to rep & sen. Hope it helps.

 

[Timtam]

By the way, if possible, a letter to your Representative is better than an email. It adds a personal touch to it, and is more likely to be passed on.

 

[Rosco]

Trying to get in an editorial in your local papers is also a great way. One ECF member already had hers published and I wrote that paper and thanked them for it. Any encouragement from the reading community to a newspaper peaks their interest, since it's the public that generates some revenue for them.

Forgot to mention..notes sent to both Senators and Representative and editorial sent to local newspaper and note sent to Congressmen Issa. I am already a member of CASAA. Are you? Have you sent letters?

 

[Davetionary]

Three letters sent. Took maybe ten minutes, tops. Feels good, man.

 

[Betterbait]

I also sent. I have a shipment that left China on December 30th and still no products. I would venture to say that it has been seized by The A-Holes.

 

[BiffRocko]

Sent:


Dear _____

Please tell the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to stop wasting taxpayer money on their attempts to ban electronic cigarettes as "unapproved drug-delivery devices." Two levels of the U.S. federal court system have told the FDA they cannot seize incoming shipments and that they should be regulating the products under the Tobacco Act. Yet the FDA persists in wasting our tax dollars on filing more appeals. They also continue to seize incoming shipments in defiance of the court orders. That costs money, too.

I have tried eight times over the course of my eighteen years of smoking to stop. I have tried going cold turkey, nicotine gum, Chantix, nicotine patches three times, and hypnosis twice. None of these methods has been effective for me.

Last July, my wife and I switched to electronic cigarettes. It has been easy to stay away from traditional cigarettes and their toxic chemicals by using electronic cigarettes. We regained our senses of taste and smell and our cardiovascular health has improved immensely. We no longer cough all day long and have not gotten sick once during this flu and cold season, whereas we were constantly getting sick in past years due to the detrimental effects of traditional cigarettes on our immune systems. Without our electronic cigarettes, I know we would go back to traditional cigarettes and see our health decline again.

The American Association of Public Health Physicians has stated that products like the electronic cigarette could save the lives of 4 million of the 8 million U.S. smokers who would otherwise die of smoking related disease within the next 20 years. The FDA is supposed to helps save lives. Please don't allow them to kill smokers. Contact me if you have any questions.

Sincerely,