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General Comment:I am 43 years old and have been smoking cigarettes since I was eleven years old, before tobacco was restricted.  In my life I have tried to be tobacco free many times.  I have tried Welbutrin,when it was the standard, have been on nicotine patches, nicotine gum, nicotine lozenges.  I have tried everything short of Chantix, and the only reason I did not try Chantix was after an evaluation from my doctor, he said the way I depended on nicotine, he was afraid I would be one of the few that had a psychotic break if I was put on chantix.  I accept that I will be addicted to nicotine likely forever, however I do not want to be dependent on cigarettes, because of the extra carcinogens and damage to my lungs that it involves.  Vaping is the only option that has ever remotely worked for me.  This is the first time in almost 33 years of smoking that I have been cigarette free.  Please rethink what you want to do to the vaping industry.  For some of us, it is our only hope.  A 75 day comment period is insufficient time for the vaping industry and the wider vaping community to comment on the proposed deeming regulations. I would respectfully request that the period for comment be extended to 180 days. Thank you.

Angela Eve Rodgers Bodkin
