Follow-Up the July 22, 2009 Press Release and Press Conference Regarding E-cigarettes or Electronic Cigarettes
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The FDAs July 22, 2009 press conference about e-cigarettes was construed by many to be strongly negative and misleading; however, nearly seven years later, it appears that the expressed concerns about the safety of e-cigarettes and their ability to attract large numbers of teens to nicotine use were valid after-all. The FDA needs to classify e-cigarettes as tobacco products and not cessation devices. FDA has regulatory authority over cigarettes, cigarette tobacco, roll-your-own tobacco, and smokeless tobacco. We urge the FDA to finalize the rule to bring additional tobacco products such as e-cigarettes, hookahs, and some or all cigars under that same authority.Data from the 2015 National Youth Tobacco Survey show that 3 million middle and high school students were current users of e-cigarettes in 2015, up from 2.46 million in 2014. The National Youth tobacco survey is a school-based, self-administered questionnaire given to more than 22,000 middle and high school students in 2014.  In 2014, e-cigarettes became the most commonly used tobacco product among youth surpassing conventional cigarettes. Sixteen percent of high school and 5.3 percent of middle school students were current users of e-cigarettes in 2015, making e-cigarettes the most commonly used tobacco product among youth for the second consecutive year. During 2011 through 2015, e-cigarette use rose from 1.5 percent to 16.0 percent among high school students and from 0.6 percent to 5.3 percent among middle school students.Staff with Advancing Tobacco-Free Communities in Delaware, Otsego and Schoharie Counties (ATFC-DOS) in New York State have also seen and been told about an increase in local youth use e-cigarettes as they pursue Reality Check youth engagement initiatives in area communities. We are disturbed by the dramatic increase in e-cigarette use among our rural youth populations whether it be at the middle school, high school or college level. We know that no form of youth tobacco use is safe.E-cigarettes are now the most commonly used tobacco product among youth, and use continues to climb, according to CDC Director Tom Frieden, M.D., M.P.H. Nicotine is an addictive drug and use during adolescence may cause lasting harm to brain development.The increase in the use of e-cigarettes by U.S. youth in recent years has gone hand-in-hand with a corresponding increase in e-cigarette advertising expenditures. During 2011 to 2014, current e-cigarette use among high school students soared from 1.5% to 13.4%, and among middle school students from 0.6% to 3.9%. Spending on e-cigarette advertising rose from $6.4 million in 2011 to an estimated $115 million in 2014.The FDA remains deeply concerned about the overall high rate at which children and adolescents use tobacco products, including novel products such as e-cigarettes and hookah, said Mitch Zeller, J.D., director of the FDAs Center for Tobacco Products. Finalizing the rule to bring additional products under the agencys tobacco authority is one of our highest priorities, and we look forward to a day in the near future when such products are properly regulated and responsibly marketed.Corinne Graffunder, Dr.P.H., M.P.H., director of CDCs Office on Smoking and Health said We know about 90 percent of all adult smokers first try cigarettes as teens. Fully implementing proven tobacco control strategies could prevent another generation of Americans from suffering from tobacco-related diseases and premature deaths.Brian King, Ph.D., deputy director for research translation in the CDCs Office on Smoking and Health asserts that The unrestricted marketing of e-cigarettes and dramatic increases in their use by youth could reverse decades of progress in preventing tobacco use among youth. Ecigarettes have given me a new lease on life - plain and simple. It doesnt get much better than that. 37 years on tobacco and finally stopped entirely by switching to ecigs over a period of 2 months from first ecig to last tobacco cig. I will not restate all the political, legal and moral issues behind the government crusade to stamp out ecigs other than to say it is rooted in ignorance and based on power, money and protecting the status quo. The result of the government using the FDA to systematically eliminate ecigarettes from the marketplace while leaving tobacco product sales untouched is at best criminally negligent and at worst, murder in the first degree. I remain, an enthusiastic and vocal advocate for the widespread use of electronic cigarettes as an alternative to tobacco for the millions of long term committed smokers such as myself who have choosen this alternative. Ralph Woodin I am a 55 year old female who has been smoking cigarettes for over 35 years. I have tried to quit using cigarettes since experiencing shortness of breath, asthma, and numerous respiratory diseases over the last 10 years.  Of all the ways I have tried - hypnosis, gums, patches, accupuncture, lozenges - the electronic cigarette is the FIRST time I have been able to comfortable and successfully quit inhaling tar, chemicals, and particulate matter into my lungs.  I can breath easier, sleep, the asthma is much less severe, and the shortness of breath is going away.Please, I need these devices to be easily available, affordable, and without hindrance to my personal choice to quit smoking tobacco.  If the FDA is being purchased by the tobacco and cigarette industry, I implore you to refuse the corporate influence and instead think of people like me - those who have been enslaved for years and finally have a chance to quit. I have been a smoker for 25 years.  I have tried every available NRT and pharmaceutical method of quitting on the market.  Not one of them worked for more than a few weeks, with some of them having EXTREME side effects.  The personal vaporizer (electronic cigarette) worked INCREDIBLY well and has kept me off of cigarettes with almost no discomfort for over 6 months now. FDA: Correct your misleading press statements from last year about electronic cigarettes. In my six months of Vaping Ive NOT smoked 7,920 regular cigarettes.  Not a single one, havnt touched them since the day I purchased a e-cig. Should I continue using an e-cig the Joye 510 specifically, and I have Every intention of doing so I will NOT smoke 15,840 cigarettes in 2010.  At the age of 26 if I live to be 90, I will NOT smoke 1,013,760 cancer causing filled with tar nasty smelling cigarettes. I will NOT smoke 1,013,760 cigarettes. Not because of the pill or the patch or the gum nor cold turkey, Ive tried all of those several times and failed each and every time.  I will NOT smoke 1,013,760 cigarettes because of the life saving E-cig.  AND I FEEL BETTER ALREADY! Please classify e-cigarettes as a tobacco product!!!!! I have been smoking for over 50 years and never believed that I could quit.  I purchased V4L e cigarettes and have successfully stopped smoking tobacco cigarettes, as well as having a diminished need to smoke even the e cigarettes.  I see a point in the future that I will no longer even use the electronic cigarettes.   This has been a God send for me, health wise and socially acceptable.  It would be a crime to do anything to discourage the sale and use of e cigarettes ... my health and interaction with non smokers has dramatically improved.Jo-An Torres signed The FDA lab report (http://www.fda.gov/downloads/Drugs/ScienceResearch/UCM173250.pdf) has been cited in numerous news stories as proof that smoking tobacco cigarettes is less hazardous than using an electornic cigarette.As a result, countless smokers who were considering substituting vaporized nicotine for inhaling tobacco smoke decided to continuing inhaling tar, CO, particulates, heavy metals, thousands of toxins, and hundreds of carcinogens along with their nicotine.  I sincerely hope that this was an unintended consequence.   The harm that has been done is incalculable.  Do the right thing.  If it is too embarassaing to print the truth about the study conducted in May 2009, then conduct a new study.  Compare the output from an electronic cigarette to the smoke from an equivalent number of tobacco cigarettes.  Provide what was missing in the May 2009 toxicology report:  quantitative analysis.  Smokers should be told that 20 cigarettes deliver 5,500 to 11,000 ng/g of TSNAs, compared to 8 ng/g in a 16 mg. cartridge from an e-cigarette.  Smokers should be told the substances (and quantities) delivered by smoke that are absent in the vaporized nicotine.Tell the public that although this product cannot be declared safe in an absolute sense, it is thousands of times less hazardous than continued smoking.