General Provisions, Electronic Cigarettes
2017-01-12 2017-01-12 2017-01-06 2017-01-12 2017-01-12 2017-01-18 2017-01-23 2017-01-12 2017-01-18 2017-01-12
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With all due respect it is past time for denying the science behind the safe factors surrounding vaping and second-hand vape.  This is not burning tobacco nor is it smoke.  The Royal College of Physicians are the latest peer reviewed, scientific study that states clearly there is zero harm, no harm to bystanders.  This backs up the 2015 findings from Public Health England, the Onasis Cancer Center, and many other scientific studies conducted over the past 9+ years.  We must quit overreacting and overregulating vaping, it is saving lives across this country and it saved my life 3.5 years ago.  It is time our government shares the actual truth about the real harms.  At least 95% safer than smoking and no harm to bystanders.  Beyond the millions of people living and breathing better thanks to switching the science is insurmountable at this point.  Smoking kills and vaping is helping drive the lowest smoking rates in the U.S. and around the globe.  Please stop treating us like smoking, it is VERY different and does not deserve or need the type of regulatory control smoking does.  This is absolutely ridiculous! The reports by the FDA and Surgeon General have been debunked multiple times and criticized by Public Health Organizations, Advocated, Researchers, Scientists, etc from both the US and over seas. It has been proven that vaping is 95% safer than smoking cigarettes. There is absolutely no evidence of negative effects of second hand vaping, and vaping is not a public health threat to anyone! It has saved millions of lives worldwide! I really wish our government agencies would do some real research of the effects of vaping to see what the truth is! Watch the documentary A Billion Lives. Read some blogs and information about vaping and its effects. Here are a few sites you should check out for some true information! www.vapingwithmatt.comwww.lizardjuice.com/blogwww.churnmag.comwww.vaping360.comand many more! LEARN THE TRUTH ABOUT VAPING AND STOP THE STUPIDITY!  I believe this is a smart policy. I have experienced negative side effects from second hand vape smoke including asthma and pain in my lungs. I support this. Vapers are trying to better their lives and the lives they/we impact because of our smoking cigarettes (to include wildlife from discarded butts.)Banning Vape devices will lend to the use of cigarettes again, thus increasing the likelyhood of more fires and debris being discarded throughout the parks that you are surely used to seeing in the past. You jumping on the cigarette manufacturers bandwagon will only help them to complete their ultimate goal(s) of the progression of cigarette distribution and destruction of human and animal life alike. Can we ban perfumes well we are at it?  They smell bad, trigger migraines and send me into an allergic fit.  Sound absurd?  So does this proposed rule.  We are talking about the great outdoors, are we not?  These are not combustible products that will cause forrest fires, nor leave unsightly butts littered across the landscape of our nations great parks.  These are alternatives to traditional tobacco that people use to keep from smoking; a product the Royal College of Physicians have embraced as being 95% safer than combustible tobacco.   As someone who uses these parks often, I cannot believe this. Vaping has done nothing but help keep our parks clean! Cigarette butts in our parks are huge problems, vaping is helping this greatly! Please oppose this bill and allow vaping to help keep our parks clean! The vaping community needs to stop making claims that vaping and or use of nicotine is safe. As a public health professional I see  no evidence to support that vaping is safe, and to the contrary, every month there is more evidence that shows that burning flavored products creates ultrafine particles that are hazardous and that there is little to no research on the safety of burning the flavors added to these products.Use of them by the public (or employees) is not as safe as breathing clean air.  Isnt breathing clean air one of the reasons we visit National Parks? I am a 46 year old mother of 4. I started smoking roughly 36 years ago! I stopped smoking 3 years ago in favor of vaping. I felt so strongly about the benefits of these devices that i quit my job and started working for our local vape shop to help educate traditional smokers on the things that big tobacco and government dont want them to know....that these devices work and are WAY safer than traditional cigs. The FDA has made a call (a seriously BAD one) that jeopardizes the lives of MILLIONS of its American citizens! As vapors, we pray that the new administration will look at these devices in a more scientific, serious and fair way! I propose there be NO FURTHER REGULATIONS ON VAPING UNTIL THE NEW ADMINISTRATION HAS TIME TO MAKE THEIR OWN EVALUATION THAT IS NOT TAINTED BY BAD SCIENCE AND/OR BAD POLITICS! Telling people they can not vape in a National park or anywhere else for that matter is the same as not allowing people to drink coffee in those same places! Nicotine is in the same class and schedule as caffeine and ***NEWS FLASH*** Nicotine in cigs is NOT what can kill you! The carcinogens do that along with all the other chemicals that the combustion causes! Our government officials need to get a clue, do their own research and stop giving INCORRECT and BIASED information to its citizens in the name of public health and safety! Tobacco poses a known, severe public health hazard, killing hundreds of thousands of people in the US every year, tens of thousands of whom dont even smoke. Electronic cigarettes are not known to present the same hazardwhile studies continue, theres already reason to think they do not. They dont emit the same products of combustion, and even where they do emit known harmful substances, the concentrations are orders of magnitude lower than from tobaccoconcentrations not known to be harmful.They are not in the same risk category, and should not be treated the same. Im not arguing electronic cigarette usage should be completely unrestrainedjust that restrictions should be proportionate to known problems, not moral panic.Other side effects of electronic cigarettes:1. Less odor, which doesnt glue itself to skin, hair, and clothes the way tobacco smoke does.2. Less litter, since electronic cigarettes dont produce ash or leave filters to be tossed on the ground.3. No fire, under normal circumstances. (Under abnormal circumstances, lots of things become fire hazards.)Lumping them in with tobacco is a mistake. As a public health professional it is encouraging to see that the National Park Service is proposing to include e-cigarettes in its smoking policy. The current policy on smoking is one that I welcomed as someone who visits National Parks every year. Our Parks are sanctuaries that preserve and protect the natural beauty that America is renowned for. Visitors come from all over the world to experience the many wonders our parks have to offer, and to breathe in the fresh, clean air of our grasslands, forests, mountains, coastlines, and deserts. Because they are relatively new, we cannot, yet, fully understand what the long-term effects of electronic cigarettes will be; however, preliminary reports have shown them to contain toxic ingredients which cause illness. Studies of e-cigarettes have found chemical substances and ultrafine particles (known to be toxic, carcinogenic, and/or to cause respiratory and heart distress) in e-cigarette aerosols, cartridges, refill liquids and environmental emissions (Williams et al., 2013). Furthermore, there have been many instances of these devices exploding, causing grave injury and property damage.  As a mother who loves to visit the parks with my children I am concerned that if electronic cigarette use is permitted, my children and others will be involuntarily exposed to potentially dangerous emissions. There is also a danger that the nicotine liquid and e-cigarette aerosols could pose a threat to our protected wildlife and waterways. And finally, I am concerned that the widespread use of e-cigarettes at National Parks will renormalize tobacco use, and reverse the progress that has been made by reducing public tobacco use. When tobacco use is seen as normal it leads to more children smoking (Gilpin, 2004; Bauer, 2005).  Diane MooreBauer JE, Hyland A, Li Q, Steger C, Cummings KM. A longitudinal assessment of the impact of smoke-free worksite policies on tobacco use. American Journal of Public Health 2005;95(6):1024-9.  Gilpin EA, Lee L, Pierce JP. Changes in population attitudes about where smoking should not be allowed: California versus the rest of the U.S.A. Tobacco Control 2004;13(1):38-44.  Monique Williams et al., Metal and Silicate Particles Including NanoparticlesAre Present in Electronic Cigarette Cartomizer Fluid and Aerosol, 8 PLOS ONE e57987 (2013); TobaccoProduct Deeming Rule, supra note 2, at 29029.