CAASA--Our Own Consumer Group Is Born

[Sun Vaporer]

From an idea that originated here in the SE v. FDA thread:

CAASA is born:

See Former Smokers Create Non-Profit Association


Good work people!!


Sun

[eric]

I have much higher hopes for CASAA than I have ever had with ECA. I wish you lot the best and you'll have my support so long as vapers have yours.

I wish CASAA the best and I'm really proud of the CASAA team for putting everything together.

[Sun Vaporer]

Eric--there is always a silver lining. In this case, the frustration of ECA got us to get off our rears and do something else.

These people on the Board here have been working hard and deserve a standing ovation for coming this far in so little a time.



Sun

[Vocalek]

You can post a link to the article on your Face Book page. While looking at the article, scroll down until you see the button "Share This".

When you click the Share This button, you will see a list of various sites where you can create a link to this story.

Select Face Book. You will be prompted to enter some text for "What's on your mind."

Change the Graphic! Click the right-arrow to page through. The third graphic that comes up is the CASAAA logo. It is much nicer looking that the 1st and 2nd ones (a green checkmark or an Adobe Acrobat icon).

Feel free to share it in other places if you are a member of some of the others listed.

[kristin]

Thanks for the plug and kind words, Sun!

Hopefully, people won't just "look to CASAA" but will join and be a part of the activism. CASAA is nothing without members to write letters to local legislators & media, promote positive articles on their web sites, blogs, Facebook, Twitter and other social media, participate in CASAA events, comment on negative articles by posting online, writing letters to the editor and being a supporting member by donating time and/or money to fight the good fight.

If you aren't a member - join now and protect your future health and vaping privleges!

And any supplier who hasn't joined and added a link to CASAA.org on your web site - what are you waiting for?? The more of your clients who join CASAA, the more members we'll have to protect you future business!

[Sun Vaporer]

No Problem Kristin.


People, No one has the right to compain unless they are doing something. CASAA was formed as to represent the Consumer with E-cigs. Please take the time to join and donate. It is the only Consumer Group and it truly was created for all of us. The enitire Board is made up of our finest Veteren's.

So please visit and join here: www.casaa.org


Thanks,


Sun

[River]

Joined yesterday and am currently working on my letter to Ellen Hahn.

Thank you for the action alert.

I refuse to let these people harm the people of Kentucky when the smoking rate is so high among it's citizenry and so much good can be done.

EDIT:

Here is a copy of my email in case anyone is curious.

Dear Madame:

My name is Troy Schulte and after twenty four years of smoking I was able to quit once and for all through the use of the personal vaporizer or electronic cigarette as it is more commonly known. I loved smoking, and it's no exaggeration to say that I loved it more than I loved my own life but after using this product I now know the repulsion that the nonsmoker feels toward the sight and smell of a lit cigarette. When I quit using other methods, and yes I tried them all, I failed in every attempt. I was tempted back into it by various ways but the biggest thing that I absolutely could not shake was the smell, even that terribly foul odor that clings to a persons hair and clothing that has just smoked was to me the most enticing smell you could imagine. When I returned to smoking after each failed attempt I could not imagine why I would ever have quit in the first place.

When I bought the personal vaporizer as a toy that I thought would maybe help me to replace just a few of the 45 to 60 cigarettes that I smoked each day and also as a last ditch effort just to say I had tried to my friends and family before giving up on the idea of being a non smoker forever the most amazing thing happened. After just the first week I had quit buying cigarettes, after the second week I bummed a cigarette from my friend after my battery had died and put it out after the first few draws on it. It tasted terrible, it smelled terrible, dealing with the ash was terrible, the nasty smell on my hand was also terrible and I rushed to wash it off of me. In that moment I was free, I knew in my heart I would never again smoke any tobacco product. As cliche as it sounds a weight was lifted from my shoulders and I knew my struggle to live tobacco free was over once and for all.

When you are an ex-smoker (and I was many times) you know you can never ever touch so much as one cigarette or you will most likely go back to smoking(which I did many times) and this product made something possible that I never thought could be possible. Me looking at cigarettes and considering them vile as opposed to longing for them.

Before I ever ordered my PV I did some research, I ordered USA made nicotine liquids made from ingredients that are approved for consumption by the FDA and currently in use in dozens of household products already being used by myself on a daily basis and felt that any risk this product posed was magnitudes of order less than using tobacco.

I appreciate your concerns for the children and also support laws to forbid access to these products to them but I find it difficult to believe that children would invest the amount of money and upkeep maintenance time into a PV that I have.

I am sorry to be so long winded and to take up so much of your time but I feel it is important for you to understand why users of this product are so vehement in their defense of it. It's been very difficult for me to watch this product that has been the only solution for me that has ever worked come under attack from organizations as varied as the FDA, Phillip Morris, R.J. Reynolds, Pfizer, The American Lung Association and ASH among countless others.

I would like to humbly ask that you take some time to put in additional research before taking a stance on either side of the personal vaporizer debate. A complete prohibition on this product could prevent millions of American smokers access to a product that may just be the one that finally helps them to end their use of tobacco like it did for me.

You have my complete support in restricting access to minors of this product and I would assist you in this subject in any way that I can.

Thank you very much for your time,

Troy Schulte

[myrtlemeva]

Hello all, Assume CAASA is just for Americans, as it seems you have to choose a State on the registration form????? Not fair......... X

[Vocalek]

Hello all, Assume CAASA is just for Americans, as it seems you have to choose a State on the registration form????? Not fair......... X

Our sincere apologies, Myrtlemeva. This has been brought to the attention of the Web site technical staff and they are working on a solution. Thank you for your patience and your interest in CASAA!

Membership is open to anyone, regardless of location.

[Vocalek]

Article has been posted on the CASAA web site. Digg it:

Former Smokers Create Non-Profit Association