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There is 1 Critical CTA for Vapor Business

• Small Business Owners only—>Sign on with Letter Petition to FDA Mitchell Zeller

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!

• congress.gov/members: Contact your state representatives in Congress
• House Reps by State:  Contact your state representatives in the Senate
• HR1136 in PDF

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

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• VapeWarriors and Vape Shop Owners: Download your Stop The Vape Ban Posters here

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 9/5/19 MI – Stop the Governor’s Flavor Ban!
• Posted 8/13/19 CO – Glenwood Springs – Stop a Flavor Ban!
• Posted 8/12/19 WY – Cheyenne – Stop an Indoor Vaping Ban!
• Posted 8/9/19 CA -Sacramento County – Stop A Flavor Ban!
• Posted 8/5/19 CO – Boulder: Stop a Flavor Ban, Taxes, and Tobacco 21
• Posted 8/2/19
  Small Business Owners only—>Sign on with Letter Petition to FDA Mitchell Zeller
• Posted 7/19/19 Richmond, CA is moving toward the new vaping prohibition
• Posted 7/18/19 Thank you @afcarmona of IG for the heads up Sign PETITION2019 to “Overrule the FDA push to PMTA Vapor”
• Posted 7/16/19 OH – Protect Access to Safer Alternatives to Smoking!
• Posted 7/12/19 MA – Stop a Flavor Ban! (S.1279)
• Posted 6/30/19

Albany County – NY – Stop a Flavor Ban!

OH – Protect Access to Safer Alternatives to Smoking!

• Posted 6/17/19 NY – Don’t let State BAN FLAVORS or ENACT TAXES on Vaping!
• Posted 6/12/19 OH – Protect Access to Safer Alternatives to Smoking!
• Posted 6/10/19 Albany County – NY – Stop a Flavor Ban!
• Posted 6/7/19 ME – Stop an Outrageous Tax on Vaping!
• Posted 6/5/19 San Francisco – Stop Vaping Prohibition!
• Posted 6/3/19

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 5/28/19 OH – Protect Access to Safer Alternatives to 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!

• Posted 5/16/19 RI – Stop a 40% Tax on Vapor Products!
• Posted 5/14/19 AZ-Stop a Law Treating Vaping the Same as Smoking!
• Posted 5/12/19

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!

• Posted 5/2/19 CO – Stop a Vapor Tax (to be decided by ballot initiative)!
• Posted 4/29/19 MN – Keep Vaping Visible and Accessible for People Who Smoke!
• Posted 4/26/19

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!

• Posted 3/25/19 WA – Stop Extra Taxes on Life-saving Products!
• Posted 3/24/19 FDA Comment Period. Flavors: Mint and Menthol auto approved, fruit and candy e-liquids, need PMTA authorization.
• Posted 3/22/19

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

• Posted 12/12/18

Cincinnati, OH – Stop Tobacco AND Vapor 21!

NY – Suffolk County – Stop a Flavor Ban!

• Posted 12/06/18
  MN – Beltrami County – Stop Tobacco AND Vapor 21!
• Posted 12/04/18 Thanks for the Heads up on IG @hell_wolfie_fbv

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.

Fight To Survive

Click here to access and sign on to Letter

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

—- READ THE LETTER —-

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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Petition Title: Over-rule the Federal decision to push a PMTA submission for the E-Cigarette community

The e-cigarette community has thrived off of doing good in health for the community. It has now developed itself to uphold the value of life for many people across the globe.

Upon the review of the dangers and side affects of utilizing what is referred to as e-cigarettes, it appears that there few dangers which may follow the effects of use. However the underlying issue is that they appear to be used by persons of a young age in school. These products are commonly found to be small systems such as Juul (leading discovery) which are purchasable through a 7Eleven and gas station.

For information on how to help prevent this, here is a government link from the UK showing what is truly effective and how things can change without ruining what we have build.

https://bit.ly/2EVqqiQ