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    Urgent New York - Rosenthal at it again! This time, a purported public use ban.

    See this: Bills Unsurprisingly, based on Rosenthal's two utterly stupidly written previous bills aimed at outright sales bans, this proposed statewide use ban is also ridiculously written, such that in it's current state it fails to effectively ban vaping in public, even though that is its...
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    UPDATED New York State Call to Action

    CASAA's Call to Action page for New York State has been updated with important information on newer bills introduced in both the Senate and Assembly, that compete with Rosenthal's still pending and horrific bill to ban e-cig sales in NY. S2926/A6667 are bills that propose a simple ban on...
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    UPDATED New York State Call to Action

    Support S2926/A6667 and Oppose S695-2011/A1468 While Linda Rosenthal's bill that would ban all sales of electronic cigarettes in New York State is still pending in the Assembly Codes Committee, and Senator Klein's identical bill is still pending in the Senate Health Committee, competing...
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    First a movie, now the e-cig on TV!

    Detroit 187, tonight's episode (Road to Nowhere), a guest actress playing a vaping FBI agent! :laugh: Edit: the first time she uses her ecig, it's when she's all alone in an interview room. But later, she uses it openly, in a meeting!
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    New york sales ban next steps

    New York Next Steps - A1468/S695-2011 Now that the Assembly Health Committee has voted in favor of A1468, the bill will at some point be sent to the Assembly floor for a full Assembly vote. (As of 1/25/11 it was sent to the Codes Committee, but from there it will be sent either to the Health...
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    Attention New Yorkers - the sales ban is on the agenda again!

    Please take a look at the thread I started here, and take action if you possibly can. Thanks! http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/law-e-cigarette/154782-urgent-nys-outright-sales-ban-agenda-again.html#post2522394
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    URGENT - NYS Outright Sales Ban On the AGENDA Again

    The New York State Assembly Health Committee has A01468 on its meeting agenda for this coming Tuesday, 1/25, at 12 noon. If the bill is favorably reported out of committee, it will then go to the full Assembly for a vote - where the identical bill passed unanimously last year! It did not become...
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    Georgia Vapers: Advocacy Needed!

    CASAA does not yet have any regional reps from Georgia, so this is an open letter to any and all Georgia vapers. Healthy Savannah has convinced the City of Savannah to try to pass a new smoking ban ordinance that includes e-cigs within the ban. Here is the proposed ordinance...
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    Georgia Vapers: Advocacy Needed!

    CASAA does not yet have any regional reps from Georgia, so this is an open letter to any and all Georgia vapers. Healthy Savannah has convinced the City of Savannah to try to pass a new smoking ban ordinance that includes e-cigs within the ban. Here is the proposed ordinance...
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    Comments needed on article by Albany County legislator

    http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/e-cigarette-news/107507-new-indoor-bans-please-help-2.html#post1626906
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    CASAA Joins Amicus Brief Filed Today

    CASAA has joined with other groups and individual experts in the filing of one of the two Amicus Curiae briefs filed today in the federal District Court of Appeals deciding the FDA's appeal in SE and Njoy v. FDA. :hubba: Here's the link to the post in the case update thread, that gives you...
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    PACT Act temporary restraining order granted by federal judge

    Seneca seller wins stay of new U.S. law on tobacco : Latest Local News : The Buffalo News "A federal judge granted a temporary restraining order Monday allowing a Seneca Nation mail-order cigarette retailer to supply tobacco products across the country without having to meet the requirements...
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    NEW YORKERS - PLEASE MEET With Your Senator!

    Most people probably saw posts about the Albany trip Jason, Spikey and I did last week, but I wanted to follow up specifically with the request that all New Yorkers consider setting up face-to-face meeting with your own NYS Senator (whether on the Health Committee or not), in their district...
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    NY legislators confused on effect of proposed ecig bills?

    I received some news today that shocked me (if it is not simply a lie). And that is that the Chair of the Senate Health Committee apparently believes that S7234/A9529 does NOT ban the sale of ecigs to adults, but only to minors. I immediately wrote an email to him and all the members of the...
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    CASAA Press Release Sent Out on NYS Bills to Ban

    For Immediate Release Smoke-Free Advocates Urge NY Legislature to Keep Electronic Cigarette Sales Legal A nationwide group of smokers who switched to smokefree tobacco/nicotine alternatives has urged New York lawmakers to reject legislation that would ban the sale of electronic cigarettes in...
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    California 882 Amended - Clearly Targets Only Sales to Minors

    As of Yesterday, SB 882 in California has been amended. Taken out was all the language declaring the ecig to be a "drug", that was really only a leftover from SB 400 that was vetoed last year. Now the bill actually only says what Corbett announced she wanted to do with it - and that is to...
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    New York Priority Contacts!

    Okay, since both the Senate bill (S7234) and the Assembly bill (A9529) in New York have been referred to the respective Health Committees, right now the absolute priority should be calling and/or writing (preferably via snail mail) the committee members. If we can kill the bills in committee...
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    NJOY comes out with study on vapor!

    Thanks to Ravengrim, I learned about this press release from Njoy that brings us outstanding news on the results of a new study on vapor from its ecigs. It will be critical for us to see the actual study, but I'm hoping a link to it will be forthcoming on ECA or from Njoy directly soon...
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    Letters, Phone Calls & Emails NEEDED for NJ

    There are a couple of threads discussing the impending legislation in NJ that would ban use of electronic cigarettes in public places, STATEWIDE. But I am surprised and dismayed to see so little being discussed here about taking action on this. There was plenty of that happening when...
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    GO VOTE Poll on Gannett Network site (captivate.com)

    The title says it all. Let's go make our opinions heard on this poll about e-cigarettes: Captivate Network: Viewer Poll
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