Link to webcast of Dec. 17 FDA Public Hearing on NRT & Innovative Products

[Vocalek]

I urge all e-cigarette consumers who can to watch the Webcast of FDA's Public Hearing on Monday Dec. 17, 2012. The topic is:
[h=1]FDA Actions Related to Nicotine Replacement Therapies and Smoking-Cessation Products; Report to Congress on Innovative Products and Treatments for tobacco Dependence; Public Hearing[/h]
https://collaboration.fda.gov/Section918

For more information on the meeting:

FDA Actions Related to Nicotine Replacement Therapies and Smoking-Cessation Products; Report to Congress on Innovative Products and Treatments for Tobacco Dependence; Public Hearing

If you live within driving distance of Silver Spring, MD, please consider attending in person. If you do attend, please come up and introduce yourself to us. We like to know who our friends are!

P.S. The meeting starts at 8 am Eastern, and tobacco Harm Reduction advocates are on on first. E-cigarette vendors and a representative from AEMSA close out the presentations in the afternoon.

Link to meeting Agenda: http://www.fda.gov/downloads/Drugs/NewsEvents/UCM331857.pdf

Note, however, that if speakers and Q&A do not take up the full time allocated (16 min), the meeting moderators will be moving on to the next speaker.

 

[Bill Godshall]

I also urge all e-cigarette advocates to watch the webcast of FDA's hearing on Monday (from 8AM - 5PM eastern US time), as this could be very influential in facilitating future FDA e-cigarette policies and potential regulations.

Seven e-cigarette consumers, three e-cigarette vendors and five other THR advocates are scheduled to testify, along with 8 folks who work for or are funded by drug companies (most of whom were/are e-cigarette prohibitionists)

A description of some of the folks testifying is at:
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...ring-dec-17-nrt-regulation-6.html#post8020801

 

[oldbroad]

Thank you for this information. I have it bookmarked.And especially a huge thank you for all that you do for the vaping community.

Because of my vaping devices ( I refuse to call them...cigarettes, because they're nothing at all like cigarettes) I have been blessedly free from cigarettes for over three years.

Please keep up the excellent work you are doing.

Kay Perkins

 

[Titanium]

Going to watch...

 

[TennDave]

I'll have to catch the show after the show...will pop some pop corn. I work all day that day...

Good luck to all who will be testifying- I will be thinking of you!!

 

[Lex Ave]

Thank you so much for this information.
Sadly, I'm in Florida, so Im not able to attend in person, but I will be following this.

 

[TheDarthVap3r]

as an infant of the vaping community i have been gifted a smoke free lifestlye only recently but already in this short period of time i have noticed changes not only physically , but mentally as well. i guess the best way to put this is that no matter what walk of life you are from an addiction , whether it be hard drugs , alcohol or even simply cigerettes , they are all the same , an affliction. and anything that can help absolve someone of any of these, is a positive. vaping absolved me of mine. as it has done for countless thousands of others. it has formulated a community out of a common goal in life. to rid themselves of the cancer that is tobacco.(infact with the ecf folding@home it has gone to further help the research in preventative measures of this disease.an action i am proud to be part of) that has been advertised celebrated and forced onto people from a young age. for immeasurable profit. billions has been spent on marketing these products to us. and now when a technology has been formulated to combat this. uproar is caused, not for health risks but for risk to profit. but nonetheless i think this public hearing can be a good thing. all industries need regulation. and if what comes from this is further research and regulation that go to enhancing the safety around vaping and its products. then that is a positive , and lets hope that is what comes from this. and not an action that could harm vaping, because the only thing that will achieve is the continuation of analogues being marketed and pushed onto people , going against health statistics in order to further line the pockets of the corporations behind what is effectively a killer.

 

[on3fifth]

I will be there for sure thanks for what you guys do.

 

[elmattias]

the only thing i can say is this:

to all the people that work hard for our rights, who work hard to help us live a happier, healthier lifestyle, all of this great community, thank you CASAA. you have all done an amazing job thus far, and i hope that you give the FDA hell on monday. if you don't have a copy of the clearstream study, please feel free to take the charts from the link in my signature, it will surely be a great asset to our fight.

if we get a ban on monday, i know you'll have tried and i commend everything that you've done for us up to this point, if we get regulation and taxation, i'll consider it a win, and i'll be ready to run out on the streets and celebrate

 

[zippersnapper]

The last link in the meeting agenda is for "written and electronic communications" by no later than Jan 16th.
I assume this is where all of us can voice our comments and concerns after the meeting, correct?

 

[ATX]

As others have said, thank you for fighting to keep our community alive! I owe my life to vaping.

 

[Faylool]

Exciting stuff. Really!

 

[MonaLisa65]

Thank you!

 

[the.quiet.rider]

I wish only that I could do something to help our cause. Unfortunately, I am unable to attend in person. A sincere thank you to those who can show up on our behalf. I know that you have the full support of every single vape-r in this community. If need be, I have absolutely no issue with placing my name on a petition should the need arise. Hell, I'd be a regular John Hancock!! I'm proud that vaping got me away from those nasty cancer sticks, and I'm sure that this entire community would rise together should our lifestyle be threatened. Absolute best of luck to those standing for what we all believe in!!

 

[bigdaddybrink1]

I too will have to catch the after show, I dont get off work until 8am. I will however have my wife tune in!! Thank you all for who attend, and fight for our rights. This is much needed and a thank you is an understatement.

 

[sparkyth67]

It is not only a matter of our right to be able to use e-cigs but it is also a matter of FREEDOM to do whatever we want as long as we are not interfering with others freedoms or liberties that seems to be what NONE of these idiots understand

 

[PowerofParanoia]

I'm curious to know what the implications are for this FDA meeting. Can someone explain what might occur at the conclusion?

I've been a PV user for about 2 years now but don't often keep up with news on them.

 

[unlearnaddiction]

Please all, do support this. I can tell you as a physician who wants to help treat tobacco addiction and sees the process of these new products I desperately want to FDA to finally wake up and give e-cigarettes a fair shake. Everyone needs to stand up and make sure the FDA makes future decisions and statements on electronic cigarettes based on fact and NOT the absence of facts and fear.

 

[Throttles]

As a new vapee I would like to thank you and everyone else who have been standing up for the rights our peers. I have tried every other option to quit smoking and until I fully vested myself into vaping nothing has worked. I wish I could be there to provide support in person, but you can be damn sure I will be watching on Monday!

 

[vegas0707]

Thanks, will be watching.