Let the FDA know about us..TODAY! IMPORTANT!

[jim420]

We need to write E-mails in response to this. Please.

Yesterday, poeticwomyn posted:

Hi all, my partner has spoken with Jan Cummings of the FDA. even though she (Ms Cummings) does not have to do with the decision making she requested that emails be sent to the following email address and she will then forward them to the FDA dicision makers. Now that we know we have a sympathizer within the FDA, we need to make sure to send all the emails she could ever want or need. Ms. Cummings needs as many emails as soon as possible. She would like for the subject line to say "Electronic Cigarette" then a well thought out email stating our side of why e-cigs should not be banned. Thank you for taking the time to consider sending the email, Kat
Please send emails to reglist@cdrh.fda.gov and remember the subject line needs to say only "electronic cigarettes"

PLEASE do this. We are not getting significant response.

Thanks,
Jim

 

[Caesarea]

We need to write E-mails in response to this. Please.

Yesterday, poeticwomyn posted:

Hi all, my partner has spoken with Jan Cummings of the FDA. even though she (Ms Cummings) does not have to do with the decision making she requested that emails be sent to the following email address and she will then forward them to the FDA dicision makers. Now that we know we have a sympathizer within the FDA, we need to make sure to send all the emails she could ever want or need. Ms. Cummings needs as many emails as soon as possible. She would like for the subject line to say "Electronic Cigarette" then a well thought out email stating our side of why e-cigs should not be banned. Thank you for taking the time to consider sending the email, Kat
Please send emails to reglist@cdrh.fda.gov and remember the subject line needs to say only "electronic cigarettes"

PLEASE do this. We are not getting significant response.

Thanks,
Jim

Do send copies of national petitions too.
I think Lacey will know where to find all we have.
C.

 

[wyzardd]

Can that be posted on Faceboook?
Save the E-Cig | Facebook

I don't want to overload her inbox, but ...

 

[Idahojo]

I sent mine yesterday and I also sent an email to all my friends and relatives asking them to send an email in my behalf. My son sent this yesterday. I thought he did a really good job. He normally does not do well composing letters.

This email is in reference to the fda's consideration of banning the electronic cigarette. My own mother has been able to keep from smoking a real cigarette for 8 weeks now after a smoking habit that has lasted 36 years. Recently, the government has imposed yet another tax hike on cigarettes making it even more difficult for smokers to be able to continue to afford their habit. To me, this says that the government is trying to discourage smokers from continuing their habit. But how then does the government justify banning a product that helps smokers to finally quit? Not to mention the long-lasting benefit that the electronic cigarette could have on the environment in which we live?
I myself have considered the use of the electronic cigarette in order to help me quit smoking. If the FDA were really interested in the health of all Americans (which it was meant for in the first place) it would not even consider banning such a product. The FDA should consider one thing here; Which result are they looking for? For smokers to actually try to quit in order to protect their health as well as the health of countless others, or for smokers to just keep looking for more money that they dont have in order to keep smoking and to continue to pollute the environment with toxic and harmfull second hand smoke?
I can tell you from a personal aspect that I would much rather my mother quit smoking and stay alive for longer then for her to have to resume smoking real cigarettes because you took away the one thing that has actually helped her to stop. She has tried other methods of quiting and this one works the best for her out of every other method that she has tried. I have tried the gum and the patches myself, and they didn't work for me very well at all.
Perhaps there are some side effects from this electronic cigarette, but how could they possibly be worse then the effects that long term smoking has on a great deal of Americans every year? I would think that the effects of the electronic cigarette(whatever they happen to be) would be FAR worse then what a real cigarette habit has the potential of.
Please take the points that I have made into consideration. Banning the electronic cigarette would not only be foolish, but it would severely undermine all of the media adds that try to keep people from starting a smoking habit in the first place. The benefit would not only come to American citizens and their children, but would also come to the environment in which we live.
Respectfully-

 

[mmmvaping]

Wow a nice shot below the belt on that....nice writing that almost convince me to quit twice on smoking if that makes any since. nice work I think we could make a dent if keep adding the preasure.

 

[OutWest]

I would think that the effects of the electronic cigarette(whatever they happen to be) would be FAR worse then what a real cigarette habit has the potential of.

Um.... shouldnt that be far LESS ?

 

[poeticwomyn]

Can that be posted on Faceboook?
Save the E-Cig | Facebook

I don't want to overload her inbox, but ...

You certainly may cut and paste my original post on facebook if you would like. I don't have a facebook account. Let's get the word out there however we can.
Thanks, Kat

 

[LaceyUnderall]

Hey folks!

It was requested for a PDF of the petition... so Krakkan made a PDF and for your ease of using, we loaded it up to our server. (this is the only reason the e-cig.org website is listed in the URL. This is still Krakkan's survey... just where I put the pdf so you can all download it )

www.e-cig.org/keep-life-saving-electronic-cigarettes-available_051909.pdf

Please feel free to use and distribute with your emails. Also, please do not forget that you can always include a link to the petition for those representatives who may not open attachments.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/keep-life-saving-electronic-cigarettes-

 

[Sun Vaporer]

We need to write E-mails in response to this. Please.

Yesterday, poeticwomyn posted:

Hi all, my partner has spoken with Jan Cummings of the FDA. even though she (Ms Cummings) does not have to do with the decision making she requested that emails be sent to the following email address and she will then forward them to the FDA dicision makers. Now that we know we have a sympathizer within the FDA, we need to make sure to send all the emails she could ever want or need. Ms. Cummings needs as many emails as soon as possible. She would like for the subject line to say "Electronic Cigarette" then a well thought out email stating our side of why e-cigs should not be banned. Thank you for taking the time to consider sending the email, Kat
Please send emails to reglist@cdrh.fda.gov and remember the subject line needs to say only "electronic cigarettes"

PLEASE do this. We are not getting significant response.

Thanks,
Jim

Jim--If people want to send e-mails to the FDA--IMO use the ones posted that are used also for other purposes--I, for one, am not going to trust the word of anyone about e-mails getting to the right source--So I will use the regular posted e-mail addresses--IMO there is no "FDA sympathizer" for us who whats to keep their job--to me that is just not plausable-------that is my take on it but do as you feel you need to---Sun

 

[midian]

I agree with Sun Vaporer, I'd really be surprised if there's anyone in the FDA who I'd trust to be willing to risk their position by directly contradicting the powers that are being influenced by big tobacco & the Tax and Trade bureau. Like Sun Vaporer, I hope I'm wrong, but I have a feeling that our emails could be reaching a recycling bin rather than an FDA representatives inbox.

 

[Kate51]

IDAHOJO, great letter! I have also sent one off, good work everybody

 

[Antebellum]

I also decided it couldn't hurt and might help. Here's what I sent.

Dear Sirs,

I'm writing this to request that electronic cigarettes not be banned in the United States. I have found them to be beneficial, allowing me to stop smoking for over twenty days now after failing several times over 31 years with the patches, gum, Chantix, Zyban, and lozenges. I very much think it's a form of nicotine replacement therapy.

I would not be opposed to the FDA wanting to have the ejuice inspected and requirements set for purity and certification, but preventing the sale and use of these devices now at this time when THOUSANDS of veteran smokers who have failed to quit before have switched to this alternative would be disruptive and detrimental to the public health. I not only say this because if they are banned without it even being determined that they are unhealthy, most of those thousands using electronic cigarettes will reluctantly go back to smoking tobacco.

Even if they are thought to be potentially harmful, (1) well, we won't know that until somebody tests them, and (2) come on now, we're comparing them to CIGARETTES! Even if we all find out that they are 10% as unhealthy as cigarettes, that’s still ten times better than smoking cigarettes! Add in the lack of flame, the availability of different flavors and nicotine intensities, the safety to others of having vapor rather than smoke as the exhaled by-product, the satisfaction smokers get from going through the familiar ritual of smoking, and it's a no-brainer why so many smokers have flocked to these electronic devices.

Again, I think I would prefer to know that what I ingest is approved by the FDA, but the timing now is just rotten. Publish standards and tell the manufacturers that they have a year to comply and enforce it. That's okay, but don't just yank the plug on all of us smokers that have finally found an alternative THAT WORKS.

Thank you for your consideration. Please contact me if you have any questions about how I use and benefit from electronic cigarettes.


And my address and phone number.

Lamar

 

[QueenInNC]

Um.... shouldnt that be far LESS ?

It should also say THAN, not then. In the same sentence.

 

[QueenInNC]

I also decided it couldn't hurt and might help. Here's what I sent.

Dear Sirs,

I'm writing this to request that electronic cigarettes not be banned in the United States. I have found them to be beneficial, allowing me to stop smoking for over twenty days now after failing several times over 31 years with the patches, gum, Chantix, Zyban, and lozenges. I very much think it's a form of nicotine replacement therapy.

I would not be opposed to the FDA wanting to have the eJuice inspected and requirements set for purity and certification, but preventing the sale and use of these devices now at this time when THOUSANDS of veteran smokers who have failed to quit before have switched to this alternative would be disruptive and detrimental to the public health. I not only say this because if they are banned without it even being determined that they are unhealthy, most of those thousands using electronic cigarettes will reluctantly go back to smoking tobacco.

Even if they are thought to be potentially harmful, (1) well, we won't know that until somebody tests them, and (2) come on now, we're comparing them to CIGARETTES! Even if we all find out that they are 10% as unhealthy as cigarettes, that’s still ten times better than smoking cigarettes! Add in the lack of flame, the availability of different flavors and nicotine intensities, the safety to others of having vapor rather than smoke as the exhaled by-product, the satisfaction smokers get from going through the familiar ritual of smoking, and it's a no-brainer why so many smokers have flocked to these electronic devices.

Again, I think I would prefer to know that what I ingest is approved by the FDA, but the timing now is just rotten. Publish standards and tell the manufacturers that they have a year to comply and enforce it. That's okay, but don't just yank the plug on all of us smokers that have finally found an alternative THAT WORKS.

Thank you for your consideration. Please contact me if you have any questions about how I use and benefit from electronic cigarettes.


And my address and phone number.

Lamar

Nice letter, Lamar. I agree in asking for testing. Not just asking the FDA not to ban them. If there is a chance that the FDA will allow us to continue to use PVs and liquid, it will not continue the way it is now. There will be testing done. This may mean a ban in the meantime.

 

[David Bruno]

Just fired off my email. Hope everyone else does. I'm passing this off
to people I know .
Dave