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NOV2019 Vapor CTA Page

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All CTA posted by date below

We hope you find this page helpful. Please let us know. We welcome feedback on CTA and/or VapeSling® products. Reach us anytime on the contact page or [email protected], or [email protected]

Click on links below to reach out to your state or local area Reps asking their support for HR1136 and opposition to S.3319. Unite to fight for our right to VAPE!

Here are some materials you can share on social media and/or as flyers around town.

VSLLC /VapersArmy Daily Updates

VSLLC conducts daily research for new CTA’s (Calls to Action) to publish and alert the community.

On occasion, one of the esteemed #2019VapeFight .org’s may publish a CTA later in the day. It may pass us till the next day. Please Help this page—> Such as ON IG, we have received several CTA Alerts from concerned Vapers (#VapeWarriors). We appreciate this and please continue to share. We will publish your handle when you tag us for the alert. Thank you VapersArmy!

The Vape Community is family…being part of a family means doing your part. Please advocate for Vapor as Harm reduction for you and future vapers.

Latest CTA listings

New York, NY – Stop a total ban on flavors

MA – Stop the Legislature Making Flavor Ban Permanent and 75% Tax!

CA – El Cajon – Stop a Flavor Ban!

WA – Emergency Alert! – Flavor Ban and Board of Health Meeting! (10-09-19)

OR – Call Gov. Brown – 503-378-4582 – Stop a Flavor Ban!

  • Posted 9/25/19

CT – Stop a Ban and Extreme Regulation on Vaping!

RI – Emergency Call to Action! Contact the Governor – Oppose the Vape Ban!

MA -Emergency Alert! – End the War on Vaping!

NY – Hempstead Twp. PUBLIC HEARING – Flavor Ban – 09.24.19, 7:00 PM

CA – Burbank Flavor Ban PUBLIC HEARING (09.24.19)

CA – Los Angeles County – Flavor Ban PUBLIC HEARING

IL – Public Meeting 09.23.19 – Mental Health Committee to Discuss a Response to “The Vaping Crisis”

Albany County – NY – Stop a Flavor Ban!

OH – Protect Access to Safer Alternatives to Smoking!

CT – Fight Back Against Vapor Taxes!

NV 30%Tax has passed.
Please take action NOW and urge Governor Sisolak to VETO SB 263.

SB 263, which would impose a 30% wholesale tax on vapor products, has passed the legislature and is being sent to Governor Sisolak for his signature.

Please take action NOW and urge Governor Sisolak to VETO SB 263.
Take Action – Share this Phone Number!
Call Governor Sisolak: (775) 684-5670

Make a Call – Talking Points

  1. Please VETO SB 263, which would impose an unjustifiable 30% wholesale tax on vapor products that are helping people like me quit smoking.
  2. Briefly, share your story about switching to vapor products.
  3. Please note any health changes that you have experienced as a result of switching to vaping or substantially reducing your smoking.

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OCT2019 CTA Page

U.S. Vapor Map

All CTA posted by date below

We hope you find this page helpful. Please let us know. We welcome feedback on CTA and/or VapeSling® products. Reach us anytime on the contact page or [email protected], or [email protected]

Click on links below to reach out to your state or local area Reps asking their support for HR1136 and opposition to S.3319. Unite to fight for our right to VAPE!

Here are some materials you can share on social media and/or as flyers around town.

VSLLC /VapersArmy Daily Updates

VSLLC conducts daily research for new CTA’s (Calls to Action) to publish and alert the community.

On occasion, one of the esteemed #2019VapeFight .org’s may publish a CTA later in the day. It may pass us till the next day. Please Help this page—> Such as ON IG, we have received several CTA Alerts from concerned Vapers (#VapeWarriors). We appreciate this and please continue to share. We will publish your handle when you tag us for the alert. Thank you VapersArmy!

The Vape Community is family…being part of a family means doing your part. Please advocate for Vapor as Harm reduction for you and future vapers.

Latest CTA listings

CA – El Cajon – Stop a Flavor Ban!

WA – Emergency Alert! – Flavor Ban and Board of Health Meeting! (10-09-19)

OR – Call Gov. Brown – 503-378-4582 – Stop a Flavor Ban!

  • Posted 9/25/19

CT – Stop a Ban and Extreme Regulation on Vaping!

RI – Emergency Call to Action! Contact the Governor – Oppose the Vape Ban!

MA -Emergency Alert! – End the War on Vaping!

NY – Hempstead Twp. PUBLIC HEARING – Flavor Ban – 09.24.19, 7:00 PM

CA – Burbank Flavor Ban PUBLIC HEARING (09.24.19)

CA – Los Angeles County – Flavor Ban PUBLIC HEARING

IL – Public Meeting 09.23.19 – Mental Health Committee to Discuss a Response to “The Vaping Crisis”

Albany County – NY – Stop a Flavor Ban!

OH – Protect Access to Safer Alternatives to Smoking!

CT – Fight Back Against Vapor Taxes!

NV 30%Tax has passed.
Please take action NOW and urge Governor Sisolak to VETO SB 263.

SB 263, which would impose a 30% wholesale tax on vapor products, has passed the legislature and is being sent to Governor Sisolak for his signature.

Please take action NOW and urge Governor Sisolak to VETO SB 263.
Take Action – Share this Phone Number!
Call Governor Sisolak: (775) 684-5670

Make a Call – Talking Points

  1. Please VETO SB 263, which would impose an unjustifiable 30% wholesale tax on vapor products that are helping people like me quit smoking.
  2. Briefly, share your story about switching to vapor products.
  3. Please note any health changes that you have experienced as a result of switching to vaping or substantially reducing your smoking.
  • Posted 5/24/19

GA -Alpharetta – Stop a Ban on Vape Shops!

CA – Stop an All-Out Flavor Ban!

  • Posted 5/22/19

IL – Take Action to Stop a Flavor Ban! (SB 222)

Atlanta – Stop an Indoor Vaping Ban!

MA – Stop a Flavor Ban Being Proposed in the State’s Budget!

Albany County – NY – Stop a Flavor Ban!

MN – Keep Vaping Visible and Accessible for People Who Smoke!

NH – Keep Vapor Taxes OUT of the Budget!

  • Posted 5/3/19

NE – Protect affordable access to vaping!

VT – Stop Ban of Online Sales!

WA – Stop a 95% tax on vapor products!

WA – Stop Extra Taxes on Life-saving Products!

  • Posted 4/25/19

OK – Stop a Vaping Place Ban!

Albany County – NY – Stop a Flavor Ban!

  • Posted 4/22/19

CO – Stop a #Vaping Ban!

WA – Stop a 95% tax on vapor products!

VT -Stop and Outrageous Tax on Vaping!

  • Posted 4/19/19

FL – Keep Vaping Legal for ALL Adults Who Smoke!

WI – Stop an Outrageous 71% Tax on Vaping! (UPDATED)

  • Posted 4/16/19

Albany County – NY – Stop a Flavor Ban!

FL – Keep Vaping Legal for ALL Adults Who Smoke!

VT -Stop and Outrageous Tax on Vaping!

  • Posted 4/11/19

OH – Protect Access to Safer Alternatives to Smoking!

IA – Protect Access to Safer Alternatives to Smoking!

ME – Stop an Outrageous Tax on Vaping!

OR – Stop Outrageous Taxes on Vaping!

  • Posted 4/8/19

LA – Stop Law to Deny Adults Access to Safer Alternatives!

WI – Stop an Outrageous Attack on Vaping!

  • Posted 4/6/19

WA – Stop Extra Taxes on Life-saving Products!

IA – Protect Access to Safer Alternatives to Smoking!

  • Posted 4/4/19

HI – Stop the Attack on Vaping!

VT -Stop and Outrageous Tax on Vaping!

Louisiana – Stop Tobacco AND Vapor 21!

FL – Stop Tobacco/Vapor 21 AND Signature Requirement Law!

CO – Denver – Stop Tobacco and Vaping 21!

  • Posted 3/27/19

NV – Stop a Tax on Vaping!

CA – Los Angeles – Stop a Flavor Ban!

CA – Stop an All-Out Flavor Ban!

CO – Stop local governments from treating vaping like smoking!

FL – Stop Tobacco/Vapor 21 AND Signature Requirement Law!

ME – Stop a Flavor Ban!

DELAWARE – Stop Attack on Vaping!

  • Posted 3/19/19

ND – HB 1477 is now a Vapor Tax!

MN – Isanti County – Stop Tobacco AND Vapor 21!

AR-Stop an Outrageous Tax on Vaping!

MN-Robbinsdale-URGENT! Stop Flavor Ban and Adult Access to Vapor Products!

WI-Appleton-Stop an Indoor Vaping Ban!

  • Posted 3/14/19

Stop an Indoor Vaping Ban!

MN – Stop Law Prohibiting Businesses From Allowing Vaping

UT – Stop an 86% Tax on Vapor Products!

RI – Stop a 40% Tax on Vapor Products!

IN – Stop a Tax on Vapor Products!

  • Posted 3/8/19

SD – Stop a 35% tax on vapor products!

CT – Stop the attack on Vaping!

  • Posted 3/5/19

NY – Don’t let Albany BAN FLAVORS or ENACT TAXES on Vaping!

IN – Stop a Tax on Vaping (HB1444)

  • Posted 2/28/19

DELAWARE – Stop Attack on Vaping!

ARKANSAS – Stop Tobacco AND Vapor 21 Bill!

  • Posted 2/22/19

WA – Stop a 95% tax on vapor products!

NM – URGENT Call to Action!

AR – Stop a tax on vapor products!

SD – Stop a 35% tax on vapor products!

AZ – Pima County Call To Action!

  • Posted 2/7/19

WY – Stop a tax on #vaping!

NH – Stop a Vapor Tax!

NH – Stop Tobacco AND Vaping 21!

CO – Stop a #Vaping Ban!

WI – Appleton – Stop a #vaping ban!

  • Posted 1/24/19

MT – Stop a tax on vaping!

SC – Protect online access to low-risk nicotine alternatives

IL – Champaign City Council Study Session (01.22.19)

MD – Stop an indoor vaping ban!

NH – Stop an Indoor Vaping Ban!

New York, NY – Stop a total ban on flavors

WA – Stop Tobacco AND Vapor 21

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Local Vapor Laws: Easy Interactive States Map

U.S. Vapor Map

Click link to view and interact with U.S. Vapor Law State Map—>Local Vapor Laws: Easy Interactive States Map

A new and easy method to find out your local vapor laws currently enforced. The interactive map provided by CASAA allows you to pick your state Vapor Laws in great detail (as shown below for Nevada).

In addition, your state and local lawmakers are listed with contact info. Truly an essential tool for all #VapeWarrrior

Click Here to view and interact with U.S. Vapor Law State Map—>Local Vapor Laws: Easy Interactive States Map

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VapeSling LLC is a Nevada, USA based company. All our employees are proud members of The Consumer Advocates for Smoke-free Alternatives Association (CASAA), The Vaping Militia and the National Vapers Club (NVC); three organizations that further encourage ex-smokers to continue smoke-free lifestyles through scientific research on electronic cigarettes, education about vaping and vaping products, as well as helping to protect vaper rights through activism on the local, state, and federal levels. We also donate to .orgs such as NBS, and we hope you will too.

We created a VapersArmy on InstaGram that spread the word of justice for vapers. We furthermore, post every single CTA that exists currently on our dedicated web page –> Calls To Action – Vapor Products. We update this the daily in addition to update news posts under latest news. All vapers have access. .

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Tell President Trump to NOT Ban Flavors

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Tell President Trump to NOT Ban Flavors on Vapor Products

Send an email to the President with one click!

Attention
White House Switchboard: 202-456-1414

Send an email to the President with one click!

On behalf of almost 14,000 American vapor business owners, more than 87,000 American vapor workers, and the 13 million adult consumers they serve who use flavored vapor products, I am asking you NOT to implement a federal flavor ban on vapor products.

A ban on flavored vapor products will devastate more than 11,000 small businesses nationwide and result in tens of thousands of people laid off.  The Made in America flavored vapor industry is larger than concrete industry and larger than the iron and steel forging industry. The vapor industry has a total economic impact of $24 Billion on the U.S. economy – all of which is hanging in the balance as you consider this action which will wipe that out.  

The vast majority of vapers are adults who successfully quit (or are trying to quit) cigarettes with the assistance of vapor products by relying on a variety of flavor options like fruit flavors – but not tobacco flavor.   And, there is plenty of research and survey data that shows that flavors keep smokers from turning back to deadly cigarettes.

Send an email to the President with one click!

It is already illegal for teens to purchase vapor products. And, there are many other steps we can take to limit teen use of vapor products including stricter marketing standards and stronger enforcement of the laws already on the books.  But, banning these products for adults will only hurt the U.S. economy and send millions of adults back to smoking cigarettes or to the black market. Additionally, deadly combustible cigarettes will still be available on the open market and left untouched. 

Researchers say that flavored vapor products truly represent a safer alternative to cigarettes.

  • E-cigarettes are at least 95% safer than cigarettes according to the Royal College of Physicians.
  • In Feb. 2019 the New England Journal of Medicine published a study which concluded vapor products are twice as effective helping smokers quit than traditional cessation methods like nicotine gum or patch. 
  • Georgetown University public health experts conclude that switching to e-cigarettes would save between 1.6 and 6.6 million lives over the next 10 years.
  • The American Cancer Society’s Public Health Statement on Eliminating Combustible Tobacco Use in the United States stated, “switching to the exclusive use of e-cigarettes is preferable to continuing to smoke combustible products.”
  • There has been no indication that industry standard nicotine-containing vapor products are to blame for recent cases of lung illness. In fact, FDA investigators found that black market THC were likely the cause.

A flavor ban is a terrible idea that would be devastating to all the growing small businesses dedicated to helping their customers quit deadly cigarettes. Please consider these businesses and all Americans desperately trying to quit and change course. Please do NOT implement a federal flavor ban on vapor products.

Send an email to the President with one click!

National Call To Action – Light Up The White House Switchboard

The White House needs to hear from adult vapers and anyone who loves a vaper! A flavor ban won’t protect our children, but it will kill their parents. We need to
Light Up The Switchboard
At The Whitehouse!
Ph: 202-456-1414
or
202-456-1111 On your call:

  • The operator will likely ask where they can direct your call
  • Simply tell them that flavored vapor products saved your life; and,
  • tell them “We Vape, We Vote.

Be polite, be brief, and say thank you.

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Vaping Prohibition is On the Table in Congress!

CASAA

FROM CASAA:
While all eyes are on the White House this week, we are reminding members that several bills in Congress could do more harm to consumers and be enacted faster than FDA can take enforcement action against the vapor industry.

In July, a US District Court judge, Paul Grimm, produced a remedy order that requires the FDA to enforce the premarket tobacco application (PMTA) requirement starting in May of 2020. This effectively moves up this particular compliance deadline by more than a year. While a small handful of companies might be in a position to attempt compliance with this new deadline, the rest of the vapor industry is not.

Take Action – Send a Message!


Strict enforcement of this deadline will force most US manufacturers to shut down. Even though the FDA will retain enforcement discretion with regard to certain compliance deadlines on a case-by-case basis, it is not clear how (or even if) the agency will apply it. In other words, there is no guarantee that companies will be allowed to keep their products on the market.

At the same time, several bills are active in Congress that would undermine FDA’s authority over new tobacco products. These bills propose to raise taxes, ban flavors, limit online sales, and one bill even goes as far as requiring vapor products to be approved for market only as medical drugs/devices.

CASAA is asking our members to take action by sending a message to your federal lawmakers urging them to reject this legislation and prevent a massive underground market from taking the place of our current legal, regulated marketplace. We will start delivering your messages one week from now to coincide with a lobby day organized by the Vapor Technology Association.

Take Action – Send a Message!


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The long version:

By way of background, In July, Judge Paul Grimm, US District Court District of Maryland, ruled that the FDA has until May 2020 to enforce the premarket tobacco application (PMTA) requirement for new tobacco and vapor products.

The initial compliance deadline for PMTA was August 8, 2018. But in July 2017, the FDA delayed the PMTA deadline to 2022–for non-combustible products–citing a need to give vapor manufacturers more time to prepare and submit meaningful applications that would be more likely to be accepted by the agency.

Within a year, the FDA changed course after reviewing national survey data showing a sharp uptick in youth use of vapor products. The updated guidance would require applications to market vapor products in flavors other than tobacco to be submitted and accepted by the FDA by August of 2021. Although never finalized, the draft guidance would have also limited sales of flavored vapor products to adult-only specialty vapor/tobacco stores.

In 2018, the American Academy of Pediatricians (AAP) sued the FDA with the goal of reinstating the original August 8, 2018 PMTA compliance deadline. Following an exchange of proposed remedy briefs by both parties, Judge Grimm ruled that FDA’s suggestion of no less than ten months from the date of the court’s decision would be necessary for companies to finalize and submit acceptable applications. Judge Grimm granted FDA’s request.

The ten-month deadline is one of four points detailed in Judge Grimm’s remedy order. The remaining provisions of the order are as follows:

  • New products for which applications have not been filed within this period shall be subject to FDA enforcement actions, in the FDA’s discretion;
  • New products for which applications have been timely filed may remain on the market without being subject to FDA enforcement actions for a period not to exceed one year from the date of application while FDA considers the application;
  • The FDA shall have the ability to exempt New Products from filing requirements for good cause on a case-by-case basis.

While the one-year “grace period” for a manufacturer to keep a product on the market during FDA’s review of their application is nothing new, the points regarding the agency’s enforcement discretion and ability to exempt new products from the filing requirements are significant.

It may be hard to believe, but FDA specifically asked the court to preserve the agency’s enforcement discretion citing negative consequences of a mass exodus from the vapor market and an extreme and sudden decrease in access to safer alternatives to smoking. The FDA expressed strong concern that such an event would cause thousands of people who vape to return to smoking.

Preserving FDA’s enforcement discretion is not a free pass for the vapor industry and consumers should be very concerned about what this remedy order means for our access to vapor shops, vapor products, and other resources. The FDA and Congress are still facing tremendous pressure from anti-nicotine activists to ban flavors, enact taxes on vapor products, ban online sales, and raise the purchase age to 21. Additionally, we are monitoring a budding movement by local governments in California to take matters into their own hands by requiring that a vapor company has a marketing order from the FDA in order to sell their product in their city.

Take Action – Send a Message!

 Thank you,
CASAA Legislative Team

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Light Up The Switchboard At The Whitehouse!

CASAA
From Alex Clark of CASAA:
Yesterday, Donald Trump, along with HHS secretary Alex Azaar, announced that the administration would be banning all flavored vapor products from the market. The move is in response to early findings from the National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS) that show the number of young people who vape has increased by 25% in 2019 (accompanied by a 28% decline in teen smoking).

The White House needs to hear from adult vapers and anyone who loves a vaper!
A flavor ban won’t protect our children, but it will kill their parents.
We need to 
Light Up The Switchboard At The Whitehouse!
202-456-1414
On your call:
The operator will likely ask where they can direct your call
Simply tell them that flavored vapor products saved your life;
and,tell them “We Vape, We Vote.
Be polite, be brief, and say thank you.
   
>>>Share this post!<<<   We know that people are scared and angry and we wish there were some hopeful words that we could offer to make things better, but this is just about as bad as we’ve seen it. We are facing a total favor ban on a massive, national scale, and such a measure will bolster state and local lawmakers to take similar action. While any enforcement action coming the FDA will likely take weeks or months, cities and states can move faster. We are also constantly facing waves of disinformation from officials who are supposed to be looking out for public health.

In the coming days and weeks, we will be working to provide you with up-to-date information and opportunities to connect with lawmakers. Some of you will probably need to save up for plane and bus tickets–whether your heading to D.C. or your state capitol. Everyone will need to share their stories, especially with people who are curious about switching to vaping instead of continuing to smoke.

But today, lets show the White House just how many people the administration is putting at risk. Light up the phones!


Thank you for Taking Action,
Alex Clark
CEO, CASAA
#IvapeIvote
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SEP2019 Vapor CTA Page

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All CTA posted by date below

We hope you find this page helpful. Please let us know. We welcome feedback on CTA and/or VapeSling® products. Reach us anytime on the contact page or [email protected], or [email protected]

Click on links below to reach out to your state or local area Reps asking their support for HR1136 and opposition to S.3319. Unite to fight for our right to VAPE!

Here are some materials you can share on social media and/or as flyers around town.

VSLLC /VapersArmy Daily Updates

VSLLC conducts daily research for new CTA’s (Calls to Action) to publish and alert the community.

On occasion, one of the esteemed #2019VapeFight .org’s may publish a CTA later in the day. It may pass us till the next day. Please Help this page—> Such as ON IG, we have received several CTA Alerts from concerned Vapers (#VapeWarriors). We appreciate this and please continue to share. We will publish your handle when you tag us for the alert. Thank you VapersArmy!

The Vape Community is family…being part of a family means doing your part. Please advocate for Vapor as Harm reduction for you and future vapers.

Latest CTA listings

  • Posted 10/7/19

CA – El Cajon – Stop a Flavor Ban!

WA – Emergency Alert! – Flavor Ban and Board of Health Meeting! (10-09-19)

OR – Call Gov. Brown – 503-378-4582 – Stop a Flavor Ban!

  • Posted 9/25/19

CT – Stop a Ban and Extreme Regulation on Vaping!

RI – Emergency Call to Action! Contact the Governor – Oppose the Vape Ban!

MA -Emergency Alert! – End the War on Vaping!

NY – Hempstead Twp. PUBLIC HEARING – Flavor Ban – 09.24.19, 7:00 PM

CA – Burbank Flavor Ban PUBLIC HEARING (09.24.19)

CA – Los Angeles County – Flavor Ban PUBLIC HEARING

IL – Public Meeting 09.23.19 – Mental Health Committee to Discuss a Response to “The Vaping Crisis”

Albany County – NY – Stop a Flavor Ban!

OH – Protect Access to Safer Alternatives to Smoking!

CT – Fight Back Against Vapor Taxes!

NV 30%Tax has passed.
Please take action NOW and urge Governor Sisolak to VETO SB 263.

SB 263, which would impose a 30% wholesale tax on vapor products, has passed the legislature and is being sent to Governor Sisolak for his signature.

Please take action NOW and urge Governor Sisolak to VETO SB 263.
Take Action – Share this Phone Number!
Call Governor Sisolak: (775) 684-5670

Make a Call – Talking Points

  1. Please VETO SB 263, which would impose an unjustifiable 30% wholesale tax on vapor products that are helping people like me quit smoking.
  2. Briefly, share your story about switching to vapor products.
  3. Please note any health changes that you have experienced as a result of switching to vaping or substantially reducing your smoking.
  • Posted 5/24/19

GA -Alpharetta – Stop a Ban on Vape Shops!

CA – Stop an All-Out Flavor Ban!

  • Posted 5/22/19

IL – Take Action to Stop a Flavor Ban! (SB 222)

Atlanta – Stop an Indoor Vaping Ban!

MA – Stop a Flavor Ban Being Proposed in the State’s Budget!

Albany County – NY – Stop a Flavor Ban!

MN – Keep Vaping Visible and Accessible for People Who Smoke!

NH – Keep Vapor Taxes OUT of the Budget!

  • Posted 5/3/19

NE – Protect affordable access to vaping!

VT – Stop Ban of Online Sales!

WA – Stop a 95% tax on vapor products!

WA – Stop Extra Taxes on Life-saving Products!

  • Posted 4/25/19

OK – Stop a Vaping Place Ban!

Albany County – NY – Stop a Flavor Ban!

  • Posted 4/22/19

CO – Stop a #Vaping Ban!

WA – Stop a 95% tax on vapor products!

VT -Stop and Outrageous Tax on Vaping!

  • Posted 4/19/19

FL – Keep Vaping Legal for ALL Adults Who Smoke!

WI – Stop an Outrageous 71% Tax on Vaping! (UPDATED)

  • Posted 4/16/19

Albany County – NY – Stop a Flavor Ban!

FL – Keep Vaping Legal for ALL Adults Who Smoke!

VT -Stop and Outrageous Tax on Vaping!

  • Posted 4/11/19

OH – Protect Access to Safer Alternatives to Smoking!

IA – Protect Access to Safer Alternatives to Smoking!

ME – Stop an Outrageous Tax on Vaping!

OR – Stop Outrageous Taxes on Vaping!

  • Posted 4/8/19

LA – Stop Law to Deny Adults Access to Safer Alternatives!

WI – Stop an Outrageous Attack on Vaping!

  • Posted 4/6/19

WA – Stop Extra Taxes on Life-saving Products!

IA – Protect Access to Safer Alternatives to Smoking!

  • Posted 4/4/19

HI – Stop the Attack on Vaping!

VT -Stop and Outrageous Tax on Vaping!

Louisiana – Stop Tobacco AND Vapor 21!

FL – Stop Tobacco/Vapor 21 AND Signature Requirement Law!

CO – Denver – Stop Tobacco and Vaping 21!

  • Posted 3/27/19

NV – Stop a Tax on Vaping!

CA – Los Angeles – Stop a Flavor Ban!

CA – Stop an All-Out Flavor Ban!

CO – Stop local governments from treating vaping like smoking!

FL – Stop Tobacco/Vapor 21 AND Signature Requirement Law!

ME – Stop a Flavor Ban!

DELAWARE – Stop Attack on Vaping!

  • Posted 3/19/19

ND – HB 1477 is now a Vapor Tax!

MN – Isanti County – Stop Tobacco AND Vapor 21!

AR-Stop an Outrageous Tax on Vaping!

MN-Robbinsdale-URGENT! Stop Flavor Ban and Adult Access to Vapor Products!

WI-Appleton-Stop an Indoor Vaping Ban!

  • Posted 3/14/19

Stop an Indoor Vaping Ban!

MN – Stop Law Prohibiting Businesses From Allowing Vaping

UT – Stop an 86% Tax on Vapor Products!

RI – Stop a 40% Tax on Vapor Products!

IN – Stop a Tax on Vapor Products!

  • Posted 3/8/19

SD – Stop a 35% tax on vapor products!

CT – Stop the attack on Vaping!

  • Posted 3/5/19

NY – Don’t let Albany BAN FLAVORS or ENACT TAXES on Vaping!

IN – Stop a Tax on Vaping (HB1444)

  • Posted 2/28/19

DELAWARE – Stop Attack on Vaping!

ARKANSAS – Stop Tobacco AND Vapor 21 Bill!

  • Posted 2/22/19

WA – Stop a 95% tax on vapor products!

NM – URGENT Call to Action!

AR – Stop a tax on vapor products!

SD – Stop a 35% tax on vapor products!

AZ – Pima County Call To Action!

  • Posted 2/7/19

WY – Stop a tax on #vaping!

NH – Stop a Vapor Tax!

NH – Stop Tobacco AND Vaping 21!

CO – Stop a #Vaping Ban!

WI – Appleton – Stop a #vaping ban!

  • Posted 1/24/19

MT – Stop a tax on vaping!

SC – Protect online access to low-risk nicotine alternatives

IL – Champaign City Council Study Session (01.22.19)

MD – Stop an indoor vaping ban!

NH – Stop an Indoor Vaping Ban!

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Once again, CASAA is pleased to share the annual ECig Intelligence consumer survey with our members. As you may remember from previous years, CASAA works cooperatively with ECI to develop survey questions that aid us in our advocacy efforts and help take the pulse of the vaping community.

Please take 10 – 15 minutes to complete this year’s Ecig Intelligence Consumer Survey!

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Your participation in this survey will help inform regulators, advocates, and commentators as we all work to build policies that benefit consumers.

Thank you!

Alex Clark

CEO, CASAA

  • Posted 10/19/18
    THE DEADLINE IS MONDAY, OCTOBER 22!  Surveys are only as good as those who participate and only as good as the information you provide. So, please e-liquid manufacturers take the time to do your part. Per ECig Intelligence, the specific information you provide will be kept confidential by them. Your responses will be aggregated with all the others so that the combined information will help us paint the best picture of the e-liquid industry for the decision makers in D.C. and in your states. SURVEY
  • Posted 8/23/18 Click Here—>Petition against S3319 Flavor Ban. Takes seconds to do your part for Vapor Flavors. S3319 seeks to ban all flavored Vapor excluding tobacco and menthol. Fight for your yummy vapor flavors now. Thanks goes to IG @quickshotcompcoils for the heads up.
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Link to download sign—> “Quit with Flavor”. Thank you to @jenbergercoleman of IG for the Campaign start. NotBlowingSmoke.org has provided a link to download the “Quit on Flavor” sign to be used for this social media campaign. Contact @jenbergercoleman on IG with your posting. Please join us and do your part and  raise awareness of vape flavors important role. The posts will be shared with the Senate, Congress, President and FDA.

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VTA Files Lawsuit | August 2019

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VAPOR TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATION AND VAPOR STOCKROOM
FILE LAWSUIT AGAINST FDA
Contact: Alex Schriver; [email protected]   WASHINGTON D.C. – August 14, 2019 – Today, the Vapor Technology Association (VTA) and Vapor Stockroom (VSR) filed a lawsuit in federal court against the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA), amongst others, over its unreasonable and arbitrary Pre-Market Tobacco Application (“PMTA”) process and the recently grossly accelerated PMTA filing deadline.  Plaintiffs are taking action to require FDA to publish and complete the long-promised “foundational rules” describing the specific requirements for PMTAs. In addition, Plaintiffs are asking the court to enjoin FDA from enforcing the May 2020 PMTA deadline or taking enforcement action against companies that do not have a PMTA on file until a reasonable period of time after the actual foundational rules are finalized.
  With over 3 million vapor products registered with FDA, the arbitrary May 2020 PMTA deadline which FDA is currently enforcing is simply impossible to meet for thousands of small and mid-sized vapor businesses, particularly in the absence of a draft or final PMTA Rule. Any final PMTA Rule must allow sufficient time to conduct the many complex and time-consuming tests and studies currently being required by FDA.
  Since 2016, FDA has provided five different PMTA submission deadlines: August 8, 2018; November 8, 2018; August 8, 2022; August 8, 2021; and now May 12, 2020. The most recent deadline was only just established on July 12, 2019 – leaving a scant ten months for vapor industry manufacturers to attempt to comply, which is now 27 months earlier than previously set by FDA.
  “FDA’s constantly shifting regulatory process is wholly unreasonable, unfair and unlawful. The Agency has failed to provide advance notice or an opportunity for public comment as required by the Administrative Procedure Act. Grossly accelerating the deadlines and then repeatedly changing the already onerous requirements is unacceptable under any regulatory regime, but this is especially true for vapor products when FDA itself warns that ‘it is likely that there would be a mass market exit of ENDS products’ that ‘could adversely affect the public health,’” said Tony Abboud, Executive Director of the Vapor Technology Association.
  The PMTA application is by far the most arduous of the many regulatory requirements governing ENDS products, and requires a complex, multi-year, multi-million-dollar process that FDA has still failed to fully articulate despite its repeated promises to do so.  “To be clear, no business could rationally have been expected to start conducting complex PMTA testing before FDA finally published its PMTA guidance document on June 11, 2019, the day before it asked the Court to impose a 10-month PMTA deadline,” said Abboud. 
  The stark facts set forth in the Complaint are that, even with unlimited resources, there are not enough labs, there are not enough subjects, and there are not enough hours in the day to properly conduct the scientific inquiries that FDA only just laid out on June 11, 2019, by the May 2020 deadline. 
  Our company complied with every regulation imposed by FDA and invested in our business while waiting for FDA to deliver on all of the promised PMTA rules, guidance and standards.  We never thought that FDA would wait so long to provide any direction and then immediately shrink the deadline so that we had no chance to stay in business,” said Tony Florence, President of Vapor Stockroom, LLC. “It’s a devastating one-two punch to small businesses all over the country,” he added.
  “It is time for FDA to stop moving the goalposts and changing the rules in the middle of the game to the detriment of our manufacturers and small businesses,” said Abboud. “FDA’s actions, if unchecked, will shut down an entire industry that has developed to challenge the combustible cigarette. Whatever FDA calls its ‘rules of the road’ simply cannot be relied upon in the absence of a real PMTA rulemaking process that gives all stakeholders the opportunity for notice and comment, not just those interested parties that file lawsuits,” he added. 
  The plaintiffs in the case are Vapor Technology Association and Vapor Stockroom, LLC.  The plaintiffs are represented by Thompson Hine LLP as counsel. The case, titled Vapor Technology Association, et al. vs. Food & Drug Administration, et al. has been filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky.  The case number is not yet assigned but a link to the filing can be found here.
  XXX The Vapor Technology Association is the leading U.S. non-profit industry trade association whose 800+ members are dedicated to innovating and selling high quality vapor products that provide adult consumers with a better alternative to traditional combustible cigarettes. VTA represents the industry-leading manufacturers of vapor devices, e-liquids, flavorings, and components, as well as the largest wholesalers, distributors, importers, and e-commerce retailers, in addition to hundreds of hard-working American brick-and­ mortar retail store owners throughout the United States.
  Vapor Stockroom is a Lexington, Kentucky manufacturer of nicotine-containing e-liquids and currently manufactures 40 distinct lines. It employs thirteen people and sells its products in local retail stores, online, and through distribution to vape shops and tobacco specialty stores nationwide. 

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Please take action NOW and urge Governor Sisolak to VETO SB 263.

SB 263, which would impose a 30% wholesale tax on vapor products, has passed the legislature and is being sent to Governor Sisolak for his signature.

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Once again, CASAA is pleased to share the annual ECig Intelligence consumer survey with our members. As you may remember from previous years, CASAA works cooperatively with ECI to develop survey questions that aid us in our advocacy efforts and help take the pulse of the vaping community.

Please take 10 – 15 minutes to complete this year’s Ecig Intelligence Consumer Survey!

Click here to take the survey

Your participation in this survey will help inform regulators, advocates, and commentators as we all work to build policies that benefit consumers.

Thank you!

Alex Clark

CEO, CASAA

  • Posted 10/19/18
    THE DEADLINE IS MONDAY, OCTOBER 22!  Surveys are only as good as those who participate and only as good as the information you provide. So, please e-liquid manufacturers take the time to do your part. Per ECig Intelligence, the specific information you provide will be kept confidential by them. Your responses will be aggregated with all the others so that the combined information will help us paint the best picture of the e-liquid industry for the decision makers in D.C. and in your states. SURVEY
  • Posted 8/23/18 Click Here—>Petition against S3319 Flavor Ban. Takes seconds to do your part for Vapor Flavors. S3319 seeks to ban all flavored Vapor excluding tobacco and menthol. Fight for your yummy vapor flavors now. Thanks goes to IG @quickshotcompcoils for the heads up.
  • Posted 8/18/18

Link to download sign—> “Quit with Flavor”. Thank you to @jenbergercoleman of IG for the Campaign start. NotBlowingSmoke.org has provided a link to download the “Quit on Flavor” sign to be used for this social media campaign. Contact @jenbergercoleman on IG with your posting. Please join us and do your part and  raise awareness of vape flavors important role. The posts will be shared with the Senate, Congress, President and FDA.

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Vapor vs FDA Unfair Regs | VTA on Fight to Survive

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VTA Member, Amanda Wheeler of JVAPES E-Liquid and President of the Rocky Mountain Smoke Free Alliance, is taking the lead at a critical time for the vapor industry. She is seeking signatories for a thoughtful letter to the FDA on behalf of small business owners in the vapor industry. But we need your help!

We are calling on all of our small business owners to follow Amanda’s example and sign onto this letter to FDA Center for Tobacco Products Director, Mitchell Zeller. The letter requests a regulatory process that does not kill our industry through an unclear and cost prohibitive PMTA process.

We will be working with Amanda, and our members, setting up a meeting with the FDA to discuss the adoption of a regulation process that will encourage the growth of responsible businesses within the vapor industry instead of the current trajectory of unreasonable demands set to quash numerous small businesses. Please complete the form to add your name to the letter and join the fight.

Become a signatory and pass this petition along to any industry stakeholders who may want to join our cause. Now more than ever we need to take action. Everyone needs to be off of the sidelines during this critical time for our industry.

Thank you for joining the fight!

Tony Abboud

Vapor Technology Association

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Mitchell Zeller
Director
Center for Tobacco Products
Food and Drug Administration
10903 New Hampshire Avenue
Silver Spring, MD 20993-0002

Dear Mr. Zeller,

We are writing to you today to express our concern for small businesses in the open vapor product industry in regard to the current PMTA guidance. Thousands of small vape shop owners and vapor product manufacturers are on the precipice of extinction. We are facing vague, unattainable regulatory gates and the terrifying threat of regulatory termination of the most impactful tobacco harm reduction products to date. We are being forced to prepare for a future where we will not be able to afford costly and unclear premarket approval, casting small businesses out of the lifesaving industry that we once created. It is our hope that the FDA can convene with our industry representatives to develop a pathway to clear and concise industry regulation that is mutually agreeable.

Current PMTA guidance recommends extensive research into each product, which includes bottle size and nicotine variations, as well as environmental assessments. We are not large corporations that can afford to fund departments devoted to regulatory affairs, science, toxicology, and legal matters, nor do we have millions of dollars to secure these services. We are mostly “mom and pop” small businesses. Many of us started with nothing but a few thousand dollars and a desire to help smokers quit, using the same method we used ourselves. Through hard work, and a firm belief in our mission, we have been able to develop successful small businesses that have not only created job opportunities for thousands of people, but helped countless people quit smoking cigarettes, and even quit using nicotine entirely, for good. This industry was created by thousands of small business owners who exemplify the American Dream—that through dedication and hard work, everyone has the opportunity to be successful. The current PMTA structure may well turn out to be impossible to navigate or comply with, at least to any distinction of consistency and dependability for advancing products and incentivizing improvements.

Thus far, efforts to engage consultants, laboratory services, and legal counsel all seem to produce professional regulatory experts that are just as unclear on how to advance through FDA’s current regulatory structure successfully. This leaves the industry even further confused, and effectively paralyzed, as we consider the risk of potentially spending ourselves out of business – because none of these entities can provide definitive answers to a process that remains completely subjective. The estimated costs given to us by the very services we would need to utilize to achieve adequate PMTA submission, amounting to millions of dollars per SKU, are significantly higher than the FDA’s “average application cost” of $131,643 for initial e-liquid submissions. PMTA guidance, by its very nature, gives the vapor industry a loose understanding of what will and won’t result in approval. These recommendations, combined with high costs for only a potential chance of approval, create an unrealistic paywall to industry compliance.

We are already beginning to see vape shops and vapor product manufacturers shut their doors—the smallest partnerships and family-owned businesses in the industry are steadily beginning to disappear. Some vapor product manufacturers are moving their American-based businesses to more vapor-friendly countries that have clear, attainable regulatory structures. Those manufacturers who do not have the ability to uproot their lives to make such a business move are instead selling their livelihood for pennies on the dollar, rather than risking a total loss when FDA exercises their enforcement discretion. Many members of the open vapor industry are making the difficult decision not to renew leases on the buildings they occupy because the pathway to remain on the market is completely subjective, undefined, and makes compliance extremely difficult, if not impossible. We will continue to see this industry slowly collapse under the heavy burden of the current regulatory framework that is unlike any other and offers no consistent baseline for the industry to follow.

It is clear that the outcome of the current regulatory structure will hand the entire vapor product industry to massive tobacco companies who have a long, sordid, and extremely profitable history of damaging the health and wellbeing of this country. The open vapor industry has and hopefully always will be able to be committed to helping combustible tobacco users transition to a nicotine delivery system that has been proven less harmful by orders of magnitude. We represent a group of businesses prepared to work with the FDA towards reasonable, realistic and sustainable regulations that are attainable for industry participants and more consistent with established and commonplace regulations for other consumable products.

Perhaps our most important concern is that combustible tobacco products, which are clearly and demonstrably harmful to public health, will be allowed to remain on the market in every smoke shop, gas station, grocery store, and convenience store in the country with little more than an age restriction and modest tax as a use deterrent. The only remaining choices Americans will have are combustible tobacco products, big tobacco company owned vapor products, or potentially hazardous, unsafe, and illegal black market products. Not only will these vague and unattainable PMTA guidelines reward tobacco companies for their current and past behavior, but they will also surely undo much of the hard work open vapor product manufacturers, distributors, and resellers have done to help millions of combustible tobacco users transition to safer nicotine delivery systems and even quit nicotine altogether.

Tobacco companies created the distrust that now exists. They also followed our lead into these less harmful alternatives while vilifying our products without factual basis. They have exponentially more resources, lobbyists, and influence, but current realities will give them the harm reduction market that we established and advanced. The current regulatory structure will take this from us and hand deliver it to those companies who created and advanced the harms of combustible cigarettes with no concern for the consequences. Furthermore, the FDA’s own age-of-sale enforcement stings show that youths are not obtaining these products from our industry participants, they obtain them from the tobacco distribution pathways.

So why allow tobacco companies to commandeer this industry when we are the ones who have introduced these products, created this new harm reduction strategy, and are verifiably (by the FDA’s own enforcement evaluations) maintaining youth sales prevention and discouragement?

Our concerns go beyond the loss of our businesses or the added power those losses would hand tobacco companies. We are equally concerned about vapor product manufacturing being handled by irresponsible, potentially dangerous black market entities. These black market entities will have no incentive to ensure that their illegal products follow standardized, unadulterated manufacturing practices. Consumers will unwittingly be put at risk by potentially hazardous and unsafe vapor products.

We understand and respect the FDA’s mandate to ensure reasonable consumer protections. We, the undersigned, are prepared to meet with FDA to cooperate and work together to find mutually satisfactory structures to regulate these products that will provide the requisite consumer protections, and also create a regulatory approach that is defined, clear, and attainable by those industry participants, like us, who are fully prepared to preserve and solidify the harm reduction public health benefits these products are capable of providing.

We hope the FDA will recognize and consider that this industry is different than any other. Most consumable products get introduced by big conglomerates or multinational manufacturers with correlative budgets and regulatory experts. Meanwhile, vapor products are facing regulatory approaches advanced many years after the products were already on store shelves. We acknowledge and respect the difficulties this adds for both the FDA and the industry. We are prepared to work with the FDA to find regulatory frameworks that meet our mutual goals. If we cannot find some realistic, consistent, and compliable common ground, businesses will close, thousands of jobs will be lost, many leases broken, investments lost (some even at life-changing levels) – many may lose their homes, savings, and much more.

We urgently request that you engage with us in a timely manner to navigate an attainable solution for small business owners so that we can reach our common goal: to save the lives of more than 480,000 American adult smokers a year without subjecting a new generation to nicotine addiction.

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