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General Comment:Dear Mr. Zeller:

I smoked since i was about 12 years old (about 40 yrs).  My mother smoked and has died of cancer, she tried off and on over the years to stop...it never worked. Till the day she died she was still trying to stop.
I wish she were still here so she could try this amazing product, that can do what nothing else has and finally feel the satisfaction of  tobacco cigarettes not having that hold....

It helped me stop smoking the 1st day of use where patches and other products were a failure.
I was so shocked, i never thought i would be able to stop smoking, wow, it still amazes me.
I have been tobacco free since June 2013, i vape, low nic e-juice on a mod
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But let me tell you what i found out from stopping tobacco cigarettes...
It was never all that much about the nicotine and everything about what ever chemicals they have put in cigarettes? because i can now go without vaping for long lengths of time, unlike tobacco cigarettes.
For me i felt fine smoking, a little cough...that's about it, but after stopping i now have a shortness of breath......i don't know what chemicals are in cigs but they sure mask the harmful affects they are doing to you.

All's i know is that vaping could, can and will save lives.
As for kids they have always smoked and will keep doing it, for me i started at 12 at school in Anchorage in the '70's, being kicked out for smoking in the bathroom......i think vaping back then would have saved me some life.
My spouse and i both stopped smoking the 1st day of vaping....amazing.
Please don't hurt people!! Please.

I am writing as an individual consumer to request an extension of the comment period for the Food and Drug Administration's ("FDA") Proposed Rule Deeming Tobacco Products to be Subject to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, as amended by the Family Smoking and Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (the "Proposed Rule") published at 79 Fed. Reg. 23,142 and Federal Register No. 2014-09491. On behalf of myself, I am requesting that the comment period for the Proposed Rule be extended by the FDA for an additional 105 days, from its current 75-day period, to 180 days.

The Proposed Rule raises a number of significant issues and questions that are important and relevant to me, as a consumer of products that are proposed for regulation under the Proposed Rule. The Proposed Rule asks about a hundred different questions I might want to respond to. I want to provide my thoughts and comments on many of these issues, but my time to devote to researching and providing thoughtful comments on these important questions is limited. I have already spent many hours researching and dissecting these issues, but they take time. I know that the FDA took many years to even come up with the Proposed Rule, so I do not think it is at all unreasonable to allow the public a mere six months to comment on it. This is our only opportunity, as consumers, to provide our feedback. 

I feel very strongly about e-cigarettes as an alternative to combustible cigarettes. Quite simply, I firmly believe that they saved my life. I wish to provide you with my personal story, as well as science- and evidence-based responses to your questions so that you can take my comment into account. I realize that the FDA has the authority under 21 CFR 10.40 to extend this time frame and that the FDA has exercised this authority on numerous occasions in the past. I would therefore ask that you do so here, so that all stakeholders have the opportunity to provide their comments on this proposed regulation.

I appreciate your consideration of my request and am happy to discuss this issue with you further.
                                         
                                                                        Thank you for your time....
                                                                         Pam Jenny and Denny Lords ll
