Ref: Docket No. FDA-2014-N-0189 My personal experience: In reference to the newest proposed regulations regarding e-cigarettes I would like to share my views and opinions. I started using e-cigarettes approx. two years ago to help me stop smoking. Prior to this I had tried cold turkey, patches, and chantix. None of these worked to help me quit smoking and the Chantix (an FDA approved drug) gave me insomnia for four days straight and made me want to kill myself. The only thing that has successfully helped me to quit was e-cigarettes. It satisfied both the nicotine addiction as well as the mental addiction. For the first three weeks I was a dual user of both cigarettes and e-cigarettes. The main thing that helped me stop cigarettes altogether was finding a good flavor. When I started on e-cigarettes I chose a tobacco flavor to help ease the transition with something I was familiar with. After a while I realized that tasting the tobacco flavor just made me want to pick up a cigarette. When I went to the store and chose a sweeter fruity flavor that I enjoyed and wanted to taste more, and had no tobacco flavoring in it, I was able to quickly stop smoking cigarettes. I continued to dual use for only a week, and during that time every cigarette I smoked tasted progressively worse until I simply threw them away. I started at 24mg of nicotine and am now down to only 6mg of nicotine. I fully expect to be at 0mg nicotine well before the end of the year. Regarding some of the proposed regulations: I do not necessarily agree that e-cigarettes should be categorized as a tobacco product. Neither the hardware used nor the fluid itself needs to contain any tobacco products. Yes, nicotine is very frequently added to the juices to help people quit smoking.What about the flavorings and juices that contain zero nicotine, are these also to be considered tobacco products? I fully support putting age restrictions on the sale of any tobacco/nicotine product. I also fully support regulating the ingredients used to make the different fluids. These types of regulations should be in place to help the overall general health of the vaping population and to prevent minors from easily acquiring new and potentially harmful habits. I do not support getting rid of the flavorings. Yes, adding flavors may make the product more appealing to children or people who neither vape or smoke, but it also make it easier for smokers to quit smoking. I can also point out that many different kinds of alcohol have various sweet or fruity flavors included in them. Do these very similar flavorings not entice minors to try them? Does a picture of a piece of cake on a bottle of vodka make a child or other young person make them want to try it more? Every consumable item you buy has flavorings in it to make it more appealing. Making a product more appealing by having different flavorings does not necessarily equate to marketing the product to underage people. I fully support the regulation of the fluid making and mixing process. Many of the local vapor stores in my city mix their own flavor in-store. This is purely unacceptable. This results in very low quality fluids that have a higher potential of harming the consumer. All fluids should be made and mixed by chemists with a degree and bottled in labs and warehouses with proper sanitary procedures. Overall, I believe that e-cigarettes should not fall under the same regulations as tobacco products. They should be regulated by some other/new set of rules that address the specific issues and concerns of e-cigarette usage. Putting the currently proposed regulations forward regarding e-cigarettes will have nothing but negative effects. Virtually all e-cigarette businesses will go out of business, costing thousands of people jobs. Many current e-cigarette users (myself included) will switch back to cigarettes to satisfy the craving for nicotine and the mental habit of smoking. The lack of a healthier alternative to cigarettes will drive people back to cigarettes and endanger those around them with the second-hand smoke created. Knowing all of the negative health effects of smoking cigarettes, this would also cascade into other industries. The health care systems will have more patients come in from smoking related illness. Personal health insurance rates would continue to increase. These are just a few examples of how the currently proposed regulations for e-cigarettes could, and likely would, affect the economy and general public health. Regulations do need to be put in place for e-cigarettes but not the same regulations that would be used for current tobacco products. This is a new technology that is striving to help people improve their lives and should therefore have a new set of regulations that will help it to grow and improve, not hinder all advancement. I know I am only one man with my own opinion, but if voicing my opinion can help to better others lives then I will gladly give it. E-cigarettes are life savers.