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ALERT!!
Next week the Senate is scheduled to debate the FAA reauthorization on the Senate Floor. Senator Blumenthal (D-CT) has proposed an amendment (SA 3547) that will expand the list of hazardous products to vapor devices and prohibit them from being carried on ALL flights.
Vapor products are already prohibited from being used on flights and from being included in checked baggage this additional prohibition will force consumers to leave their products at home when traveling once again making it more difficult for the millions of people who have chosen these products over combustible tobacco products.
This amendment is simply a win for big tobacco as traveling consumers will be forced to leave the products that have helped them make the switch at home every time they travel. Once they land at their new destination cigarettes are certain to be far more prevalent and cheaper thus creating significant incentives to revert back to using products marketed by Big Tobacco companies.
Over 9 million Americans are using these products as an alternative to smoking. Why would the US Senate want to make it impossible for people to travel with them? Creating more obstacles and punishing the citizens who have finally found an option that works for them and meeting their needs in their battle with addiction is the exact WRONG policy.
Please, OPPOSE SA 3547 which will simply make it more difficult for the millions of Americans to successfully continue their efforts to break away from cigarettes.
Recommended language for an email to phone call to your US Senator
My name is (insert your name) and I am a (vaper/vapor business owner/work for a vapor business) and voter. As your constituent, I would like Senator (insert your Senator's name) to oppose SA 3547 if it should be brought up for debate on an amendment to the FAA Reauthorization Bill on the Senate Floor (S. 2658). E-cigarettes and vapor products are already banned from being used on commercial flights and from being placed in checked bags. Banning these products from being in carry-on bags and personal items will simply make it more difficult for the millions of American who have chosen these products over combustible tobacco products.
SA 3547 as filed
SEC. 5032. REGULATIONS RELATING TO E-CIGARETTES.
(a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration shall, in coordination and consultation with the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration--
(1) finalize the interim final rule of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration issued October 30, 2015, pertaining to e-cigarettes; and
(2) expand that rule to prohibit the carrying of battery-powered portable electronic smoking devices in checked baggage and in carry-on baggage.
(b) Definition.--In this section, the term ``battery-powered portable electronic smoking devices'' means e-cigarettes, e-cigs, e-cigars, e-pipes, e-hookahs, personal vaporizers, and electronic nicotine delivery systems.
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ALERT!!
Next week the Senate is scheduled to debate the FAA reauthorization on the Senate Floor. Senator Blumenthal (D-CT) has proposed an amendment (SA 3547) that will expand the list of hazardous products to vapor devices and prohibit them from being carried on ALL flights.
Vapor products are already prohibited from being used on flights and from being included in checked baggage this additional prohibition will force consumers to leave their products at home when traveling once again making it more difficult for the millions of people who have chosen these products over combustible tobacco products.
This amendment is simply a win for big tobacco as traveling consumers will be forced to leave the products that have helped them make the switch at home every time they travel. Once they land at their new destination cigarettes are certain to be far more prevalent and cheaper thus creating significant incentives to revert back to using products marketed by Big Tobacco companies.
Over 9 million Americans are using these products as an alternative to smoking. Why would the US Senate want to make it impossible for people to travel with them? Creating more obstacles and punishing the citizens who have finally found an option that works for them and meeting their needs in their battle with addiction is the exact WRONG policy.
Please, OPPOSE SA 3547 which will simply make it more difficult for the millions of Americans to successfully continue their efforts to break away from cigarettes.
Recommended language for an email to phone call to your US Senator
My name is (insert your name) and I am a (vaper/vapor business owner/work for a vapor business) and voter. As your constituent, I would like Senator (insert your Senator's name) to oppose SA 3547 if it should be brought up for debate on an amendment to the FAA Reauthorization Bill on the Senate Floor (S. 2658). E-cigarettes and vapor products are already banned from being used on commercial flights and from being placed in checked bags. Banning these products from being in carry-on bags and personal items will simply make it more difficult for the millions of American who have chosen these products over combustible tobacco products.
SA 3547 as filed
SEC. 5032. REGULATIONS RELATING TO E-CIGARETTES.
(a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration shall, in coordination and consultation with the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration--
(1) finalize the interim final rule of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration issued October 30, 2015, pertaining to e-cigarettes; and
(2) expand that rule to prohibit the carrying of battery-powered portable electronic smoking devices in checked baggage and in carry-on baggage.
(b) Definition.--In this section, the term ``battery-powered portable electronic smoking devices'' means e-cigarettes, e-cigs, e-cigars, e-pipes, e-hookahs, personal vaporizers, and electronic nicotine delivery systems.
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