Barbara J. Wathen

Document ID: DOT-OST-2011-0044-0203
Document Type: Public Submission
Agency: Department Of Transportation
Received Date: September 17 2011, at 12:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time
Date Posted: September 21 2011, at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
Comment Start Date:
Comment Due Date: November 14 2011, at 11:59 PM Eastern Standard Time
Tracking Number: 80f20375
View Document:

This is comment on Proposed Rule

Smoking of Electronic Cigarettes on Aircraft

View Comment

The only cure for tobacco use that has worked for me and which my pulmonlogist applauds, is the e-cigarette. I have used all other measures to get rid of the habit and none have worked for me. I would not smoke my e-cigarette in public anyway; but i might go to the bathroom and get my nicotine through vapor on a very long flight. Some of the eliquids do produce an odor. If I use a cherry eliquid, it smells of cherries, orange flavor the same, smells of oranges. I think this is nothing but big money and ridiculous rules to stop a device that is the very best alternative to smoking. Smokers do not want to stay smokers; but some of us started so many years ago with the fancy TV, billboard, movies and magazine ads that made it glamorous. Cigarettes contain some 2,000 or more additives, some quite harmful; whereas e-cigarettes do not. I am a considerate vapor person, and will not expose to others the vapor smells it might omit. Public mandating is ridiculous.