Tim Swift

So, @DrMakaryFDA, what about the 500,000 annual deaths from smoking. You didn't even mention this, yet it is the number ONE public health challenge today. But smoking also has a solution available right NOW that will solve this public health catastrophe and that is vaping. To date, 14 million Americans have already quit smoking by flavored vaping. Its cessation efficacy is far more successful than any Big Pharma products and 95%+ safer than smoking. You simply need to promote vaping and correct the misinformation the FDA has spread for the last 10 years. This will also save taxpayers billions annually that is spent treating smoking related illnesses. AND your CTP must approve more vaping products from American companies. The CTP is mandated by LAW to render a decision within 180 DAYS of a PMTA filing. Yet thousands of PMTAs from hundreds of small American companies were filed over THREE YEARS ago without a decision or even a letter from the FDA. I am talking about small independent manufacturers and not Big Tobacco products which is all the FDA approves. It appears to the public that you are helping Big Tobacco to monopolize vaping and crushing its competition. All the products are virtually the same so there is no reason not to approve products not made by Big Tobacco. Failure to promote vaping and approve vaping products is the most appalling failure of the FDA's legal responsibilities, yet YOU completely ignore these failures while 1,300 Americans die EVERY DAY from smoking. Get your priorities straight and fix this. This doesn't mean more enforcement against illicit Chinese vapes. It means approve American products and the Chinese problem will go away on its own. AND in case you weren't aware, one of Trump's @POTUS @realDonaldTrump first campaign promises was to save flavored vaping. You are doing the opposite AND IGNORING the 500,000 annual DEATHS caused by smoking when the answer is right in front of you.