The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions will be meeting Thursday to discuss potential regulations on e-cigarettes. The bad news is that they’ve already been subjected to a great deal of misinformation. The good news is that Senator Isakson is on the committee.
He can be reached via email here. Please keep things positive and polite. More to the point, keep them short and succinct. These communications are read by busy and underpaid staffers, and yours needs to stand out if they’re to bring it to his attention.
Focus on the positive aspects. If you’ve quit smoking tobacco, mention how effective these are. Tell him you aren’t inhaling 4,000 toxic chemicals and that you aren’t exposing those around you to secondhand smoke. Point out that you will not be a burden on the already-strained health-care system.
Reasonable regulations that reduce access to minors are good law, but overbearing restrictions and taxes on adults will interfere with what may be the greatest public-health invention in decades.