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The Texas House Public Health Committee will be deciding which House Bill will be brought up in the House. Please contact these members and ask them for their support of Jacob Isaacs" Bill #647 which is a clean bill banning minors from purchasing and using e-cigs.The other bills offered by House...

Contact your Rep to ask them to vote no on HB 170. It is the same as the bill passed in the Senate.If you can, fax or email any scientific info you have--the Burstyn Report,Fasolinas etc. The restictions on adult vapors should be removed. You know what needs to be said--now just do it. It takes...

Please leave this site open for US Campaigning. Please move EU issues to the EU site. Thank you. Now can anyone tell me the results of the effort in Austin with the House vote. Thanks

Myra Crownover is the Chairman of the House Committee on HHS. She is very anti smoking and is very emotional about this issue. She feels her husband died because of second hand smoke.I fear she is probably biased against e-cigs. Please keep that in mind when you contact her office, She will be...

Suddenly,multiple articles on formaldehyde in e-cigarettes that create a huge danger!! I need help ASAP. I know this is contrived by ALA,CDC,Stan Glantz,CNN,and the rest of the evil crew. I need a scientific explanation quickly as I have to answer to this at the meeting concerning banning...

We got a reprieve at the Council Meeting. They want to study e-cigs more and it will be presented at the next council meeting. I assume for a vote.DFW Vapor is the only vape store in town and is only a year old. Scot of DFW Vapor made an excellent presentation. I am afraid they will only allow...

An expanded smoking ban and the addition of electronic cigarettes was announced Tuesday for first reading and comments on Wednesday. I scrambled to put something together,made a few calls,and prepared packets for each member of the council and the Mayor. Most were there in support or...

A new smoking ban including e-cigs is on the City Council agenda tomorrow in Harlingen,Texas. This proposed ban was only announced today so there is little time to prepare for it. I will ask to have a decision postponed,but I need help! One person will have no effect. Anyone from the Rio Grande...

Where has the CASAA forum gone?!?!

This might be something that has already been discussed,but I just read about it.This was on BMJ.com tobacco control. Glantz wrote a"research paper" attempting to connect AFP,Freedom Works and other conservative groups to financing by Big Tobacco. I certainly doubt that it is true. I know AFP...

What is the status of our research project? Will it be released soon? I am anxious to read the results.

HB3536 sponsored by John Otto District 18 has passed the House and is now in the Senate. It concerns taxing tobacco products not covered by the Master Settlement. It defines cigarettes on page 2 and 3 as "cigarette means any product that contains NICOTINE and is intended to be burned or HEATED...

To all on this forum who are in the path of this storm,you are in my prayers. I pray the storm will not be as devastating as it appears now. May God be with all of you.

Brownsville,Texas has proposed a new stricter smoking ban and has included ecigs in the ban. The portion concerning ecigs is as follows: Smoking means inhaling,exhaling,burning or carrying any lighted or HEATED cigar,cigarette,or pipe in any manner or form. Final voting is July 17. The...

Brownsville,Texas has proposed a new stricter smoking ban and has included ecigs in the ban. The portion concerning ecigs is as follows: Smoking means inhaling.exhaling,burning or carrying any lighted or HEATED cigar,cigarette,or pipe in any manner or form. Final voting is July 17. The...

In todays" WSJ there is an article about ecigs by Mike Esterl. In the article Elaine is quoted as is Dr.Seigel. It is not a bad article. I just wish he had been more positive about ecigs.He comments that CASAA has received funding from ecig companies,but is mainly supported by ecig users. He...

Jacksonville,Texas passed a smoking ban on February 22 which includes ecigs. They define smoking--Smoking means inhaling,exhaling,burning or carrying any lighted cigar,cigarette,pipe,weed,plant or ecigarettes in any manner or form. I am sorry--I tried but I needed help especially from people in...

Who is Thomas Kiklas, cofounder of Tobacco Vapor ecig association? I have never heard of this organization or Mr. Kiklas.

I have not checked into all the details yet. The San Antonio,Texas newspaper has an article about a man whose ecig blew up--knocking out his teeth and damaging his face. This is a potential disaster for all of us. There has to be more to the story--which I will find out more. Unfortunately,I...

Has the rep from Jacksonvile,Texas visited with the Mayor and Council members. If so,what is the status there? I mailed all the research information to the Mayor,but if one of his constituents doesn"t visit him that will be to no avail. Attentions is paid to local voters---not generally to...