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PUBLIC SUBMISSION

As of: 1/22/20 10:45 AM
Received: January 07, 2020
Status: Posted
Posted: January 15, 2020
Tracking No. 1k4-9eav-z99u
Comments Due: February 24, 2020
Submission Type: Web

Docket: CDC-2019-0114
Chronic Q Fever in the United States Enhanced Clinical Surveillance
Comment On: CDC-2019-0114-0001
Chronic Q Fever in the United States Enhanced Clinical Surveillance 2019-27554
Document: CDC-2019-0114-0002
Comment from ([email protected])

Submitter Information
Name: Philip Ehrlich
Address: 10036
Email: [email protected]

General Comment
Docket No. CDC-2019- 0113 Comment by Philip L. Ehrlich (myself). Given 132 Trillion US
dollars has been paid in legal fees from the Master Settlement Agreement to our States between
1998 and 2019, and who's conscience must weigh heavily given the 1,300 daily deaths from
smoking related cancers, the discussions here need to open with our mutual goal: ending these
preventable cancer deaths from the current generation and those yet to come. See naag.org for
full explanation of these figures. Tobacco Harm Reduction is needed immediately for the
millions of adult smokers who have yet to get the message of why we need to end combustible
smoking. Many reasons as to why they have not heard it yet exist but of all, the worst reason is
this past years fiasco caused by the CDC and FDA failing to quickly identify the root problem
of tainted unregulated black market thc cartridges made with vitamin E and focus all attention
to the obvious and well documented dangers such an oil has when inhaled. By stalling to
address the separate issue of nicotine eliquids currently trending with illicit youth behavior that
properly funded Tobacco Control systems could have addressed (if more than the 2.4% of
tobacco tax and legal fee revenues were budgeted in 2019 by the states as the CDC recommend
(as 12%), a situation was created which jeopardized more lives than necessary. We knew in
early September vitamin E was a serious culprit in the lung disease outbreak. Had we informed
people expressly to avoid illegal street thc products for such good reason, the deaths later that
month and in October/November and beyond may have been prevented. In all these 50+ deaths,
whole tragic, pale in comparison to the 1,300 smoking related cancer deaths we still see each
and every day regardless of whether a person smoked or not. By not banning cigarettes,

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politicians are failing to address their own addiction to tobacco taxes and legal settlement fees
at the cost of American lives and perhaps worse, the United States entire position on e-cigarette
vaping is causing international harm. India would likely not have banned this number one most
effective method of smoking cessation (admit the fact it is twice as effective as any NRT as
studies have proven in 2018 & 2019) if we did not set off contagious alarms of epidemic
proportions about typical and very understandable childish behaviors- trying things they have
been told are for adults only (like sex or alcohol and worse drunk driving), how flavors are a
problem (vs the demonstrated tool they have shown to be with 70+% of adult smokers
preferring them) and then confuse the entire topic in the minds of all by discussing thc vaping
and nicotine vaping ad if they were one and the same. They are not. Cannabis (marijuana:
available in my state for those medically prescribed such by dispensaries in the ratio of 20:1 thc
to cbd or 1:1 and 1thc:20cbd) is a crop that is coming under government regulation finally as
the people have suggested it should, for the tax revenue alone, as far back as the 1970's if not
longer. In fact it is only because of the decline in tobacco tax and legal fee revenues that we
have truly seen legislative changes take place (regardless of the arguments these bills have been
sold by). NY only offers medical marijuana as a vapable product (or tincture which is in
effective) and this is done exclusively through profiles cartridges. Closed ended pod systems
containing eliquid are a separate industry and Juul specifically had been defamed by the
handling of this vitamin e thc outbreak. They had no part in this but political tools needs to be
used or the moment might have been lost to just save the October and November deaths when
instead nicotine eliquids might be accused of causing harm thus improving tobacco bond share
prices as people mistake reports for reality and are fooled to believe smoking is less harmful
than vaping, which is still the same uncontested 95% healthier than traditional combustible
cigarette smoking ad Royal College of Physicians reported back in 2015. Who do our leaders
think they are to question dabbing waxes in a few states where such is even made available
legally, and barely known on the black market in others when we refuse to admit we are
embarrassingly fiscally dependent on tobacco revenues. There is a way out. Big Tobacco has
been ready for years to stop rolling. We need to end military supply stores forming their
budgets with tobacco as one of top ten foundation products funding costs of business and
consumer equivalent. Let UWELL and Juul provide solutions without multimillion dollar
regulation applications usually streamlined by pharmaceutical express track surcharges as the
FDA rate card shows. Bad government. Youth can do it, by opening our minds. DC can ruin it,
by deceiving the people for vanity. Also www.sgmro.org time to act.
https://www.naag.org/assets/redesign/files/tobacco/2019-04-19%
20Payments_to_States_Inception_through_April_18_2019.pdf

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