Non-Face-to-Face Sale and Distribution of Tobacco Products and Advertising, Promotion, and Marketing of Tobacco Products
ctp20117 CTP 0910-AG43 Non-Face-to-Face Sale Tobacco Products
2011-12-19 2012-02-14 2012-02-14 2012-02-14 2012-02-14 2012-02-13 2012-02-14 2012-02-14 2012-02-14 2012-02-14
FDA-2011-N-0467-0009 FDA-2011-N-0467-0075 FDA-2011-N-0467-0087 FDA-2011-N-0467-0091 FDA-2011-N-0467-0097 FDA-2011-N-0467-0071 FDA-2011-N-0467-0073 FDA-2011-N-0467-0074 FDA-2011-N-0467-0098 FDA-2011-N-0467-0084
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Docket # FDA 2011 N 0467I would like to comment on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration proposed rule of Non-Face-to-Face Sale and Distribution of Tobacco Products and Advertising, Promotion, and Marketing of Tobacco Products. As a legal citizen of the United States I strongly agree with the proposed ruling, regarding the sale and distribution of tobacco products that occur through means other than a direct, face-to-face or exchanged between a retailer and a consumer (FDA 2011-n-0467). Far too often children are finding ways to get their hands on tobacco products. I dont think they understand the significant of what tobacco product can do to their bodies. Under the FDA 2010-n-0568 Required Warning for Cigarettes and Advertisement stresses their concern on how smoking causes death. I think the Food and Drug Administration should have strict guidance to control the promotion and marketing of tobacco products that are sold or distributed through a non-face-to-face exchange to protect our children from getting their hands on tobacco products who have not reached the legal age to purchase those items. By law it is required that the nine warning must appear on cigarette advertisement and packaging but who is monitoring those non face to face exchange and ensuring they are checking to see if young adults are at the legal age to purchase tobacco products. It worries me that the Center for Disease Control and Prevention says tobacco use is the single biggest cause of preventable death in the United States  killing more than 443,000 user and victims of secondhand smoke and causing serious illness in 8.6 million Americans (FDA Wants your input on Cigarette Warning). I suffer from asthma and I know how it feels to be around someone who smokes and I immediately have to leave the area because it triggers my asthma. Smoking is a big health risk we face in our society. Please protect us and our children from those non - face - to - face exchange. Im for the propose rule I work for a small business owner writing to comment on the FDAs review of non-face-to-face sales of tobacco products. Specifically, my comments address electronic cigarettes.The emerging market for electronic cigarettes represents a possible new revenue stream for businesses like mine.  Adult tobacco users who seek alternatives to traditional tobacco can purchase electronic cigarettes at a growing number of retails stores in cities across the nation.Unfortunately, a few shadowy companies - located who knows where  are making big profits by selling electronic cigarettes on the Internet.  Those companies dont invest in their communities and create jobs they way mine does.Why would the federal government allow this to happen?Its not fair for the federal government to favor out of state retailers over local businesses by making it easier to sell on the Internet than from a bricks and mortar retailer.And what about keeping harmful products away from kids?  Age verification on the Internet is unreliable.I urge the FDA to implement an outright ban on electronic cigarette sales on the Internet or, at a minimum, to increase the regulations covering non-face-to-face sales.  This could include requiring online retailers of electronic cigarettes to comply with the many state and local regulations Ive got to deal with.  And to pay all the taxes Ive got to pay!Thank you for your consideration of my comments. I work for a wholesale distributer.  Included in our product line are electronic cigarettes.  I believe that the FDA should ban sale of electronic cigarettes as well as all tobacco products from sale over the internet. Tobacco products should be sold only on a face to face basis from a local retailer to insure age verification. Internet sales companies do not support local communities the way that we and our retail customers do. Please protect our children and support local business by banning these cigarettes from internet sales.  To Whom It May Concern: Regarding non-face-to-face sales of tobacco and tobacco derivative products, please strengthen the regulations related to Internet sales.  Whether people use these products to stop smoking or for simple enjoyment, they have a right to buy them through their local retailer, or perhaps with reasonable restrictions, even on the Internet.  Lets just keep kids from dodging the age verification requirements and maybe help out the bricks and mortar retailers in my neighborhood. I believe Ecigs should be regulated so minors cannot purchase on the internet. I am writing to ask the FDA to protect the children of our nation by banning the Internet sale of electronic cigarettes, or to at least regulate their availability on the web in some form or fashion. Its not that I oppose the idea of e-cigarettes. In fact, I know several people have been using them. THey feel better than ever and have been off of traditional cigarettes for months now. Many of these people have tried other cessation methods in past. But, e-cigarettes were the answer for them. However, such tobacco products should be purchased at their local retailer in a face-to-face transaction because age verification on the Internet is too easily manipulated by children.Lets keep tobacco products out of the hands of children!Thank you. To Whom It May Concern,My name is Rebecca Maisel, and I am a partial owner and full-time employee of a company that manufactures and imports electronic cigarettes. I am writing to respectfully urge FDA to impose regulations requiring face-to-face sales of electronic cigarettes. Based on various studies published world-wide, there is no question that electronic cigarettes pose a safer alternative to traditional cigarettes. With that said, even a cursory review of available retail outlets on the web reveals a clear lack of regard for the safety of minors under the age of 18 (or 19 in some states) with respect to electronic cigarette purchases. Although e-cigs are a safer alternative, they still contain nicotine. It is well-known that age verification methods online are ineffective. Thus, currently minors can easily attain electronic cigarettes containing nicotine online. Being involved in the electronic cigarette industry, I can personally attest to the fact that the race to brick-and-mortar retailers is well underway. There currently exists abundant availability of a wide range of e-cig brands at retail outlets throughout the U.S. Indeed, adults of majority age who choose to purchase electronic cigarettes will continue to have the opportunity to do so should FDA ban remote or online sales of these products. In the alternative, if FDA chooses not to outright ban online sales of electronic cigarettes, FDA should at a minimum heavily regulate the online sale of electronic cigarettes, requiring online retailers to have strict age verification policies, among other regulations intended to deter and prevent minors from purchasing e-cigs online. In addition to increasing the safety of minors, a ban of online sales would show FDAs support for traditional retail business, many of which are run by small business owners who are employing Americans in their stores nationwide. As I see it, there is no downside to removing or heavily regulating online sales of e-cigs. Thank you. Its not fair for the federal government to favor out of state retailers over local businesses by making it easier to sell on the Internet than from a bricks and mortar retailer. 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Ok, So we are going to let anyone buy e cigs over the Internet? How will this be monitored? Does this mean that my 15 year old can go online and order cigarettes now? When they show up atthe house say I have no clue? How do we know that the people are legal smoking age? We dont. If there is one thing that we have learned and preached about the internet, it is that you never know who is on the other end. Avaliablty needs to be regulated.