As of October 1st, 2016, all our VapeSling LLC Facility is producing V3.0 Webbed Slings. No, Spider Man is not endorsing us, but that would be cool. Anyway, VapeSling® V3.0 Webbed Slings are the only, secure “Vape-On-THE-GO” mod holders. Reliable and more comfortable than ever. 1.5″ wide webbing.
Your V3.0 Web Slings are covered by our VapeSling® Lifetime Guarantee. You won’t need it, as we expect 0% breaks. All our slings are reliable, however, this version is exceptional. Reliability extends beyond your Mod/Vape weight.
Starched fabric (for wrinkle free flatness) sewn into reinforced edges (Black Gross-Grain) leading to the VapeSling® proprietary cradle (Black VS Logo flap). All Cradles are sewn with a triple stitch square around the VS logo. You can literally pull a truck with your V3.0 sling. Our point: Your sling will last and secure your mod forever!
Your V3 Sling is completely washable as well as heat resistant.
JOIN CASAA. By joining CASAA, you will become plugged into an advocacy network.
Being a CASAA member ensures that when something comes up that affects you, you get notified by email.
Once you are in our database with your name, email address, and physical address (Don’t worry–we keep all that information private!), it allows us to better focus our efforts. We know that legislators care about two things–votes and money. Well, we don’t have the money, but we do have the votes. A legislator is going to care far, far more when he/she hears from an in-district constituent. Our database allows us to make sure that we can put our members in touch with their elected representatives.
The more members CASAA has, the greater our reach and credibility. Legislators and regulators need to understand that there is an organized consumer voice, that it is growing by leaps and bounds, and that it would not be wise to dismiss us as simply a fringe element.
Ask your family and friends to join CASAA. Even if they do not vape or use a tobacco harm reduction (THR) product, it is a tangible way of showing their support of you and your healthier lifestyle.
REGISTER TO VOTE. It probably goes without saying, but we’ll say it any way: If you haven’t already done so, Register to Vote. When you contact legislators, the voice of registered voters in their districts carry significant weight, and even more weight still when you actually vote. (Yes, legislators can check records to see who is registered to vote and who has voted.)
RESPOND TO CALLS TO ACTION. If you are a CASAA member, you will receive an email notifying you of legislative and regulatory threats that affect you. You can also check to see whether CASAA has issued a Call to Action or Local Alert in your area by clicking here.
SPREAD THE MESSAGE. One of the most effective methods of gaining support is a large group of people. Take time to develop a short 10-second explanation of what vaping means for you and others (an elevator speech – something you can say between floors on an elevator). As opportunity presents itself, give this elevator speech to gain interest in your listener and make them aware how valuable THR and vaping is to public health.
II. HOW TO DO MORE
A. Attend Hearings.
Learn how to deal effectively with your legislators and local boards of health
This list is compiled from our years of experience dealing with agencies and legislators and can serve as a guide to help get you started on the most effective path to defend your rights.
Do find your legislator/Board of Health (BOH) member and call their office for an appointment. You will often meet with staff, which is valuable in and of itself.
Do your homework and check the voting records of the legislator or BOH member before your visit.
Do be prepared bring studies/stories/charts with you. A few recent positive articles or some nice charts and graphs if you can manage to find them is always very good to bring with you. (Especially for initial meetings before legislation has been introduced, try to limit yourself to 3 or 4 because too many will be overkill for a small meeting.) These should be left with whomever you have met with at the end of your visit.
Do know your topic. Spend time practicing so when you speak, you sound knowledgeable on the subject.
Do dress in a appropriately. Dressing well sends a message that you respect the office you’re about to enter. (Business casual dress is generally appropriate, although in some cases, a suit may be a better choice. Avoid informal dress such as t-shirts, shorts, and jeans.)
Do introduce yourself or your group and explain why you are there.
Do tell the truth. Don’t stretch the truth or make unrealistic claims.
Do remember these are people just like you, and they expect a little potential nervousness.
Do smile and offer to shake hands.
Do if you are going as part of a group you must decide who speaks first.
Do limit your visit to one request, one piece of legislation.
Do expect to be asked questions. If you don’t know the answer, don’t be afraid to offer to find out and send the information in a follow up email or letter/fax.
Do answer questions respectfully, but keep returning to your basic message.
Do attempt to find out if the person with whom you are speaking will support you/your issue before you leave. If they are not able to indicate support, don’t be afraid to respectfully ask why not If they are they undecided, ask how can you help them make a decision.
Do always thank the person with whom you are meeting for their time at the end of your visit. Try to end the visit on a positive note.
Do follow up with a thank you note you met with and include any follow up information you promised to send along (if any).
Remember you can sway some of these types of people with a simple understanding of their position.
Remember that your personal stories are important and can help the person with whom you are talking understand why they should support your issue.
If you are registered to vote (and if you aren’t, you should be), you should definitely feel comfortable mentioning that, especially if the person with whom you’re talking appears noncommittal or nonsupportive. You should explain that this issue is an incredibly important one to you personally, and you weigh in heavily in casting your vote.
Don’t show up without an appointment. This wastes everyone’s time.
Don’t make up facts or exaggerate the truth for dramatic purposes.
Don’t argue–persuade.
Don’t make promises you can’t keep.
Don’t be surprised if your meeting winds up being staff, and treat that meeting as seriously as you would a meeting with the legislator himself/herself.
Construction Complete! Oct 1st Release: VapeSling® V3.0
We are back!!!
Thank you for your patience with our 3 week expansion/construction.
While away, we developed another great VapeSling® Version.
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Senator Ron Johnson (WI) is taking the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to task over the impact of the “deeming rule” on small to medium vapor businesses across the country. Sen. Johnson, Chair of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, has sent several letters to the FDA requesting to see, among other things, their calculations regarding the number of vapor businesses that would be forced to close as a result of the deeming rule.
The FDA has rebuffed his request for information.
From CASAA’s perspective, the independent vapor shop is vital for ensuring consumer access to a wide variety of vapor products, as well as for helping smokers successfully transition to smoke-free products. Without a doubt, the FDA regulations will kill the diverse vapor market, which will lead to thousands of vapor shops closing. Senator Johnson is working to prevent that.
Please take a moment now to send Senator Johnson a thank you letter.
(For a pre-written letter that you can print and send, click here. To edit this letter, make a copy in google drive and then include your additions)
If you live outside of Wisconsin or would prefer to write a letter by hand,
please send it to:
The Honorable Ron Johnson
517 East Wisconsin Avenue
Suite 408
Milwaukee, WI 53202
If you are collecting many letters to send off to the senator, please share a photo of your effort on social media. Use the hashtags #AnswerRonJohnson and #WeAreVapor
(Writing Tip #1) If you have a lot to say, please craft your email in a separate word doc and then copy/paste it into the field provided. If you take too long, they system will time out and you will lose your work.
(Writing Tip #2) Although we’ve provided a prewritten email with compelling talking points, we would strongly encourage you to edit the email because personalized communications to legislators are far more persuasive than form letters. At a minimum, PLEASE INCLUDE YOUR PERSONAL STORY (just a few sentences) in the text of your email.
This endeavor would obviously cost money. I am a hardworking father who would have to take off time from work and would have to cover bills as well as the cost of the trip
If you have the means anything helps a dollar goes along way.
So before I put wheels in motion, boots on the ground etc. I figured I’d pick your brain in regard to this idea. Yesterday before I went out with my sign I was angry that the 8th had come and started thinking of ways to affect change. The methods and tactics we’ve all been pushing, practicing and being told to try, have seem to produce
little result. It’s a purely political path and really what it accomplishes is MAYBE some compromise. So I started thinking of the civil rights movement(the parallels are obviously a stretch) but the tactics of peaceful protest and civil disobedience were effective. If only in the sense that it provided a humanity to the injustice that was occurring as well as raising awareness of the people who were not being affected. And this is where the problem lies. No one I can think of approves of unreasonable and unfair legislation and a lot of it gets snuck by without anyone noticing. But what the FDA is pulling here as you obviously know is purely special interest pandering and lobby money motivated.
After the post I put up with the sign received the response it did, a light went off. Maybe this is the way to get noticed. When I said no one didn’t see the sign, I meant passerbys. And when you explain exactly what is going on people get angry. Everyone who walked by asked questions.
So today I thought, what if I went on a tour? A tour of vape shops and manufacturers with the same idea. Sitting in front of shops answering questions, talking to the people affected by these regs. As I shared the other day(with some trepidation as not to seem exploitative) my own father is succumbing to tobacco related illness. Putting faces to the movement. The small businesses, the smokers. And with said tour meeting vapers and kind of mobilizing them in a grassroots face to face way that might inspire them to do similar things. We know 200 vapers outside of a state building gets laughs from the public and the rest of us are preaching to the choir from the safety of social media.
GET INVOLVED
You can make a difference. Download our sign and help spread the word at your local shop. Be sure to take photos and post using #vinylandvapor
This endeavor would obviously cost money. I am a hardworking father who would have to take off time from work and would have to cover bills as well as the cost of the trip
If you have the means anything helps a dollar goes along way.
Wisconsin has the convenient electronic method. As a vaper, you know your duty. Send yours now.
Posted Aug 8th
Monday, August 8th, 2016 marks the start of a two-year countdown to the FDA’s near prohibition of 99% of vapor products currently on the market. To prevent this, we have a specific ask of congress to update the 2007 predicate date to 2016. This is a necessary first step in a larger legislative battle to keep the diverse range of vapor products available.
Take action TODAY by calling your congressman and urging them to support a change to the predicate date in the tobacco control act.
For contact information and points to discuss on the call,
As of August 3rd, 2016, all our Slings are sewn in our VapeSling LLC Facility. VapeSlings will no longer use Knots as fasteners, rather permanent, durable, and reliable stitching.
No more worries of knots becoming undone in extreme heat nor moisture. Your Lifetime Guaranteed Sling is now washable as well as heat resistant.
VapeSling® V2.1 Released 8/3/16 is even more durable and reliable than before. We fasten your Sling cradle, using the paracord color of your choice (as shown in the pictures below), with black thread for cosmetic purposes. After weaving thru the upper apertures, the cording is sewn onto the tough 4 layer (2 PVC layers) canvas cradle (Flap that holds your mod). For extra strength, we use multiple stitches on both fasteners till the cording becomes one with the canvas.
Your new V2.1 Sling will hold well over a 70 lb. load.
Chairman Johnson Demands Further Answers from FDA on E-Cigarette Regulations
Please help if you approve of Vapor products as a Life saving and/or Harm reduction industry.
Credit to @tw11tch of IG for preparing this letter:
Please download and send this prepared letter or your own to Sen Johnson—->SenJohnsonLetter
Send to:
Sen. Ron Johnson
328 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
WASHINGTON — Sen. Ron Johnson, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, demanded further answers from the FDA on Friday after sending a third letter to FDA Commissioner Robert M. Califf seeking information on the recent e-cigarette regulation.
Johnson raised concerns in May about the agency’s recent e-cigarette regulation, which could create undue burdens on small businesses and possibly lead to negative unintended health consequences.
“In my initial letter, I asked the FDA for data on the number of e-cigarette businesses that will be affected by the rule,” Johnson said in the letter. “The FDA gave an inadequate response that lacked the requisite details. Further, the FDA noted that it did not possess some important information about the economic effect of the rule, writing that ‘[t]he baseline number of manufacturers and importers of [e-cigarette] products is uncertain.’ The FDA’s acknowledgement that it has, at best, incomplete information raises questions about the adequacy of the FDA’s justification for the rule. Further, many job creators in the e-cigarette industry fear that they will be forced to shut down if the rule is implemented. Without a concrete understanding of the rule’s effect on growing industry, the FDA’s decision to implement this regulation could lead to the elimination of thousands of jobs and businesses.”
The FDA responded to Chairman Johnson’s inquiry on June 16, 2016 with insufficient answers. On July 8, 2016 the FDA provided the Committee with an initial document production consisting of materials that were already publicly available. Johnson originally sent a letter to FDA Commissioner Robert M. Califf about the e-cigarette regulation on May 17, 2016 and then sent a second letter to the FDA on June 6, 2016.
The FDA’s June 16, 2016 response can be found here.
I write to reiterate my request for information about the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) regulation over e-cigarettes and its potential consequences. I first wrote to you on May 17, 2016 requesting information and data regarding the consequences that this new regulation may have on small businesses and the public’s health. After I did not receive a response, I wrote a follow-up letter on June 6, 2016 that reiterated my initial questions and requested documents and materials based on FDA communications relating to the regulation. The FDA provided partial responses on June 16, 2016 and July 8, 2016. The FDA’s answers to my questions, however, provided only limited new information, and the FDA did not provide a complete document production. While I appreciate the FDA’s offer of a briefing, the Committee must first possess the full universe of requested documents and materials to fully understand FDA’s decision-making process. Therefore, I write to again reiterate my requests.
In my initial letter, I asked the FDA for data on the number of e-cigarette businesses that will be affected by the rule. The FDA gave an inadequate response that lacked the requisite details. Further, the FDA noted that it did not possess some important information about the economic effect of the rule, writing that “[t]he baseline number of manufacturers and importers of [e-cigarette] products is uncertain.”
The FDA’s acknowledgement that it has, at best, incomplete information raises questions about the adequacy of the FDA’s justification for the rule. Further, many job creators in the e-cigarette industry fear that they will be forced to shut down if the rule is implemented. Without a concrete understanding of the rule’s effect on a growing industry, the FDA’s decision to implement this regulation could lead to the elimination of thousands of jobs and businesses.
Additionally, I asked whether the FDA would issue a revised rule if sufficient data demonstrates that e-cigarettes are a safer alternative to traditional cigarettes. The FDA did not answer this question. Instead, the FDA gave an ambiguous answer, reasoning that the FDA must regulate in order to obtain more information about e-cigarettes. The FDA stated:
The rule is the beginning of the process of the regulation of e-cigarettes, and the other products covered in the final rule. That regulatory framework will evolve over time as we learn more about the products. Now that FDA will finally have regulatory authority over these previously unregulated products, the Agency can expand its knowledge base regarding these products.
The FDA’s statement is concerning. Rather than conduct research to better understand the effects of the product prior to regulating, the FDA chose to issue a rule without a proper understanding of the product itself. Because federal regulatory agencies seldom shrink their own jurisdiction, the FDA’s action could result in a far-reaching regulation that fails to consider the regulatory impact on small businesses selling e-cigarettes, product innovation, and the public’s health.
I also questioned the FDA about the potential unintended consequences of its rule that may result in decreased access to e-cigarettes and increased consumption of traditional cigarettes. The FDA responded by citing to a scientific paper that concluded that the decline in adolescent smoking rates slowed in states that enacted restrictions on access to e-cigarette products. However, the FDA also cited “several limitations” with the study. The FDA states that it “acknowledges this paper as a first attempt to study the potential impacts of youth [e-cigarette] access restrictions, but more research will be necessary to explore the potential effects of this rule on product switching or dual usage.”
In addition to asking the FDA to respond to several questions, I also requested documents and communications referring or relating to the FDA’s regulation of the e-cigarette industry. On July 8, 2016 the FDA provided the Committee with an initial document production that consisted of materials that were already publicly available. Based on conversations between my staff and the FDA, I am willing to accommodate the FDA’s request to prioritize the production of certain material. As discussed between our staffs, I ask that the FDA initially prioritize its production of documents and communications referring or relating to the FDA’s interactions with industry, advocacy groups, government entities, and other stakeholders as the FDA developed its regulation.
The American public deserves complete answers from the FDA about its rulemaking. The information and material that I requested from the FDA will help to inform the Committee’s oversight responsibilities and address the public’s concerns about the e-cigarette regulation. Therefore, I request that you please provide complete responses to my prior letters as soon as possible but no later than 5:00 p.m. on July 29, 2016. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Tickets: There are still some tickets available. Click here to help us sell them out today and send a message. A group discount of 20% is available. [email protected].
Thanks to Molecule Labs, the entry fee for the official after-party is included with your ticket.
Official Hotel: InterContinental (On the Milwaukee River and adjacent to the Pabst Theater)
We have a limited number of rooms at a reduced rate of $149 (normally $300) for Friday & Saturday. Available until July 29th.
Attire: I will be wearing a tuxedo, but it is not required (or expected) of everyone in attendance. However, please dress to impress the media. The world will be watching.
Schedule
Friday, August 5th
7:00pm – Opening Night
Enjoy an epic night out with me, members of the cast, and the Milwaukee-based crew. We will meet at the InterContinental lobby (adjacent to the Pabst Theater). Details to follow.
Saturday, August 6th
12:00pm – Lunch at Top Secret Location (Details to follow)
7:00pm – Red Carpet festivities begin at the Historic Pabst Theater
8:05pm – North American Premiere begins
10:00pm – After-party begins at Lucid Light Lounge (Presented by Molecule Labs)
Sunday, August 7th
Sleep in.
Drink water.
Take an ibuprofen.
There will be additional festivities scheduled. Details to follow.
This model was developed to accommodate users with an unrestricted Mod/e-cig carry, however, not in the form of a lanyard.
This latest creation using our Patent Pending concept is the V2.0 Ring Sling HP from VapeSling®.
This new sling model is a Finger/Hand sling. Your HandChecks will be secure in your hand with the Ring Sling loop on one of your fingers. As with all our Slings, Mods of ALL SIZES, WEIGHT and SHAPE are held, comfortably and securely. This tough carry will handle all Mods, e-cigs, vaporizer sizes and weights, securely and comfortably.
Attachment is done with the cradle sandwiched between the Atty and the Batty (Atomizer and Battery). Your Mod will be in full display and always ready to vape.
