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Left on the table Thursday as unfinished business, the Maine flavor ban bill is effectively dead, and proponents would have to submit a new version next session. The bill was criticized for potentially creating a financial burden for Maine, especially when people could just travel to New...

This study attempts to blame vape flavors for appealing to sensation-seeking youth, yet it also finds sensation-seeking youth are statistically just as likely to smoke conventional cigarettes. Of course, they completely ignore the obvious "sensation" common denominator between vaping and...

FDA seems proud of cracking down on small businesses for selling low-risk, smoke-free alternatives to smoking that are SAVING LIVES. Anyone wondering why the agency doesn't announce that, since it took over tobacco regulation in 2009, it's authorized over 400 DEADLY CIGARETTE PRODUCTS?

NEBRASKA Call to Action! While LB 388 didn't advance in the regular session that ended April 18th, it's STILL ALIVE. Governor Pillen is promising a SPECIAL SESSION to address property tax relief, which could include the bill's 20% tax on vaping products...

VIRGINIA Call to Action ⚠️URGENT⚠️Governor Youngkin has included a tax hike on nicotine e-liquid in the budget that equates to $11.00 per 100ml bottle. The governor's proposal violates his campaign promise to not raise taxes on hard working Virginians...

CASAA News Round-Up FDA's Califf surprised; ‘overwhelmed’ by number of vaping PMTAs. Scientific review demolishes claims of vape toxicity. FDA finally getting closer to telling the truth about vaping. KY vape retailers sue. Calls to Action and more...

IOWA CALL TO ACTION ⚠️URGENT⚠️Legislators passed HF 2677, which will ban the sale of most #vaping products in the state. Urge Governor Kim Reynolds to VETO this bill and help save the lives of 358,000+ vulnerable adults in IA who still smoke! TAKE ACTION NOW...

️CASAA LIVE️ TODAY at 4:30 PM ET/3:30 PM CT! Join CASAA CEO Alex Clark and CASAA Vice President Logan Evans as they speak with guest Addy Tuney, a vaping consumer and advocate, about the challenges of living in a state with anti-vaping laws.

CALLS TO ACTION There are currently OVER 35 Calls to Action on the CASAA website! These include sales bans, flavor bans and excessive taxes on...

“The vaping panic is confirmation that ‘public health’ often doesn’t have much to do with health at all. A proper assessment of the evidence would conclude that vaping has been a massive success story, providing a safer alternative to cigarettes. But the anti-nicotine fussbudgets would rather we...

Kentucky retailers have filed a lawsuit over the PMTA registry bill, calling it unconstitutional. "We couldn’t survive that. There’s no way. It bans everything in our store. Like 98% of everything would be banned here." ~ Vape Shop Owner Duane Tracy...

"For adults who smoke, switching completely from cigarettes to e-cigarettes MAY reduce exposure to many harmful chemicals present in cigarettes." The FDA is finally getting closer to telling the truth, but the science overwhelmingly shows that the correct word to use here is "WILL."...

An interesting and relevant article that explains the hysteria and ignorance around vaping: "Politicians and regulators often react to moral panics by introducing legislation & regulations that are at best unnecessary and wasteful, at worst seriously harmful."...

An evaluation of 65 studies by Dr. Brad Rodu, et al: "These reviews completely demolish all claims of alleged high toxicity of vape aerosols, particularly pronouncements like “contain toxic compounds,” some of which constitute rhetoric devoid of evidence or in some cases they are based on...

It's delusional to believe the illicit market won't grow when some adults can still buy the products when others cannot. It’s true that the duty gap (an illicit market indicator) did decrease in the UK since 2005, but they ignore the fact that the smoke-free products that they also want banned...

NEBRASKA CALL TO ACTION ⚠️URGENT UPDATE⚠️ LB 388, a 20% vape tax, is listed as passed (second reading), but there is a third reading and final vote before this leaves the legislature. We expect this vote to happen on Thursday, April 18! TAKE ACTION NOW: NEBRASKA - Stop a Vapor Tax!

Years after it was discovered that vitamin E acetate in illicit THC vapes caused EVALI, researchers are still desperately trying to implicate nicotine #vaping. Here they blame a patient's illness on 10 years of nicotine vaping after 35 years of smoking...

"Sweden is winning the war against smoking with a comprehensive approach to tobacco control that supplements traditional cessation and preventive measures with an all-important added element: giving smokers the opportunity to switch to safer alternatives."...

FDA Commissioner Califf: "No one anticipated there would be twenty-six million plus applications of vaping products. That is a bit overwhelming." Really? Maybe FDA should have read the thousands of comments from THR advocates warning of what would happen...

This is from our last blog post: VIRGINIA UPDATE Governor Youngkin has returned HB 1069 to the House with proposed amendments to “remove the Attorney General’s authority to bring the court action or to concur with such an action by a Commonwealth’s Attorney or local government attorney. The...