I don't know how much weight it will have on the final decision with the FDA to approve e-cigs, but I followed the link at the top of this site and filled out the form. Here is what I wrote:
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As a person who has smoked tobacco cigarettes for more than 25 years with many unsuccessful attempts at quitting smoking, I urge you to approve the sale and use of electronic cigarettes. After reading the facts and the use of this product, it is clear that the ingredients of the liquid used in this product are far less harmful than those of a tobacco cigarette.
Electronic cigarettes have helped many thousands of people quit smoking where every "approved" method has failed. Further, the ingredient that was found in a trace amount in a sample is also present in tobacco products. I have seen no valid argument to support the FDA's desired ban on this product.
The tobacco companies have set up websites and offered "assistance" to consumers who want to quit, but the market's offerings have been engineered to fail. Big tobacco is laughing into the faces of Americans. Finally there is a product that works and the government wants to crush it out.
This product has been approved in other countries and there is no reason why it cannot be approved here as well. Every year, TENS of THOUSANDS of Americans die from complications that are directly related to smoking. As a firefighter, I have responded to countless house and vehicle fires where life and property have been lost as a direct result of the the use of cigarettes. Hazards presented by the use of Electronic Cigarettes to health, life and property are virtually non existent by comparison!
As a free American adult who has the right to make the choice to destroy my health with the use of cigarettes, I demand to have the right to use an alternative product that will save me from the harmful addiction that you permit the tobacco companies to addict me to.
Otherwise, you are sending the message that you are turning a blind eye to the health of Americans in favor of the monetary gains realized from allowing and promoting the sale and use of tobacco cigarettes. It is the tobacco that should be banned!
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