I own Google stock, and I can not advocate that anyone does NOT use Google.
Honorable xxx,
Just STOP IT. Stop adding to knee-jerk, unfounded legislation, regulation, and rhetoric regarding Personal Vaporizers (e-cigarettes) that may, or may not contain nicotine fluid.
Partial quotes of poor and improperly done, or out of context research by highly visible organizations, and repetitions of the same from other highly visible organizations and anti-tobacco zealots does NOT warrant legislation nor regulation over and above normal and reasonable safeguards against use by underage children.
Please perform your due diligence on the subject and allow time for conclusive research to indicate need.
So far proper research under real-life useage conditions shows that it does NOT cause me OR bystanders undue harm, that it is NOT carcenogenic, does NOT appear to cause cardiac issues, nor cause lung issues in any lasting, permanent, or significant way.
Other carrier solutions in e-liquid are GRAS, and are also used medically and therapeutically, in a similar manner to vaping.
Personally, after 47-48 years of using 20 to 40 cigarettes per day I did my own research into the subject and gave up cigarettes 2 years ago. For good this time, rather than short term with all of the recommended methods. Ask my family and loved ones how they feel about the subject.
I am NOT ashamed or concerned about my use of nicotine even though I have CAD, and I have met my 60th birthday goal of substantially improving my health and that of my family.
I will NOT ALLOW anyone to socially stigmatize or financially burden me as was done in the past over my cigarette use. It may have been founded then, but until science says otherwise I WILL NOT ACCEPT IT over my use of PV's.
If you truly wish to improve rather than worsen Public Health, you will ask the FDA to simply require that e-liquid components have a USP for purity, and for FDA or NIH to do valid, trustworthy, real life use research on any potentially problematic components as may be required. Removal of hazards is as simple as that.
Currently it appears that handing a cash cow to Big Tobacco when it is otherwise a potentially significant remedy for truly harmful tobacco use is the direction the FDA is heading. I WILL NOT ACCEPT THAT, EITHER.
My personal scientific research references are available upon request if it will assist you.
Respectfully,
xxx
JD EXCELLENT! If you do use citations and links to studies.... this is disturbing news as of this AM. This was noticed and mentioned by someone at We Are Casaa on FB. Still we don't know, why or what or anything. It's very strange, however. http://publichealth.drexel.edu/SiteData/docs/ms08/f90349264250e603/ms08.pdf
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It is insane to me that the FDA can consider e-cigs a "tobacco product" because there is no tobacco in the liquid at all. That makes no sense, what kind of backwards government would blatantly ignore common sense. A government that stupid would call pizza a vegetable!
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