Hello, My name is Sean from Putnam County New York. At age 13 I started abusing nicotine products, starting with cigarettes and then switching to smokeless tobacco because I was under the impression that it was safer. Up until the age of 17 I switched back and forth between smoked and smokeless tobacco, and it had a very negative affect on my health. Cancer runs in my family and it rapidly started to make my ongoing struggle with skin cancer worsen and worsen. I tried to quit for two years with nicotine gum, the patch, and even was able to get my hand in chantix but nothing worked. I switched to electronic cigarettes one day and haven’t gone back since, and due to that I haven’t had to get cancerous material removed surgically in almost a year. I’ve become the vaping enthusiast of my town and frequent my local vape shop often. With the current legislation and FDA trying to harshly regulate vaping has given me concern. Vaping has saved my life and the life of my mother, a 20 year plus smoker. We both have been cancer free for almost a year now. If the regulations set in place to go in affect for the country do go through vaping will be viewed in as negative a way as cigarettes, meaning thousands more will die from smoking and using smokeless tobacco(most likely including me and my mother.) the thing is we don’t want to support big tobacco’s smokeless e cigs because knowing them, they will make them just as harmful as regular cigarettes. Look all I want to help save people from tobacco and e cigs are the way to do it. And if the bans and regulations are set in place it will be a futile effort. Please take into consideration our requests to stop these unnecessary bans and regulations. If not for us then for your family and loved ones. For the future of our nation and others. If e cigs prove dangerous to our health then be my guest and go ahead and ban them all. But until you get that information we will fight for our right to vape and be healthly. And if you concern is children getting a hold of them let me add this: as a child when I was smoking(I am of legal age now) it was ten times harder to get an e cig than it was to get a cigarette or a tin of grizzly. On a final note I thank you for you time and hope you will let us have our right to vape. With warm regards, – Sean