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General Comment:Hello, my name is Alex and i would like to request an extension of the currently proposed 75 day period that is pending FDA regulation on electronic cigarettes to 180 days.  I am lucky enough to have a job in this emerging industry that provides me with financial stability and the ability to help myself, our companies customers and my friends and family to effectively use a new technology to reduce the harm, and grievous health hazards that smoking tobacco causes.  My mother and aunt are cancer survivors and are overjoyed that there are advances in options to help them avoid carcinogens in there day to day lives.  I personally feel that the expedited process of applying costly requirements to an industry made up primarily of small businesses would limit our ability to help people that have gone threw such hardships as the ones mentioned above, as well as allow people, myself included, to avoid such scenarios entirely.  

I am fully aware that tobacco use is one of, if not the most dangerous health hazard that the American people are subject to.  I also firmly believe that this industry has a lot to offer as a working piece of the solution.  It would truly be a shame if this process was carried out in a way that set us farther away from the goal of providing a product that positively impacted peoples health and quality of life.  I believe that increasing the timeline of this process would help the FDA and the electronic cigarette industry work together to better achieve our shared goal, i.e.  protecting and advancing public health.        

sincerely,

Alex Mihalyi Smith 
