ATTENTION ALL CALIFORNIA VAPERS
Yesterday the special session bill that classifies ALL vapor products (devices,
batteries, non-nicotine liquids etc) as
tobacco products, sailed through the assembly health committee. DESPITE hundreds of people appearing in opposition they sent it through with the tag-line used by the the truly desperate.."It's for the children." This despite the fact that not one parent showed up to argue in favor of the bill. They claim this is so children can be protected from vapor products, but we know this is a lie. It is to open the gate allowing regulation and taxation as a tobacco product. If this bill passes the Senate and Assembly and signed into law it will change the way these products are sold, handled, distributed. As a tobacco product, there will be no more internet sales. All wholesale transactions must take place through a state licensed tobacco wholesaler. All retail sales only through licensed tobacco retailers. This will effectively dismantle the
vaping community as we have built it. This is what sitting back on your laurels will get us. You MUST contact you state senator and assembly person as well as the governor and express your adamant opposition to these bills that recklessly mislabel vapor products as tobacco. DO IT NOW!