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[kristin]

New York Assemblywoman Linda "I-Hate-People-Who-Want-to-Enjoy-Nicotine" Rosenthal is back spreading lies about #vaping.

She falsely claims that "Big tobacco" is selling "entertainment vapor products,” e-cigarettes that include “fun” and trendy features like Bluetooth, internet connectivity, digital screens to display photos and animations and virtual games."

"Big Tobacco" has never sold such products, just like the tobacco industry never sold "kid-friendly" flavors like "bubble gum" or Skittles, but the truth doesn't seem to matter to these haters.

Ms. Rosenthal also seems to forget that vaping products can only be legally sold to ADULTS, so she's perfectly fine with telling adults that they aren't allowed to make decisions for themselves.

State ban on ‘entertainment’ vapes proposed

Vaping shouldn’t be fun in New York state. That’s the basic gist of a new piece of legislation introduced recently by Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal, D-New York City. A.10713 would amend the state Public Health Law to prohibit the sale of what Rosenthal terms entertainment vapor products. Last...

www.observertoday.com

 

[kristin]

CASAA assists eCigaretteIntelligence with their annual U.S. survey of adults who vape by helping develop survey questions that aid #vaping advocacy efforts. As we do every year, CASAA is asking our members to participate in this year’s survey!

Please click here: USA - Vape Consumer Survey 2024

 

[kristin]

On October 17, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that the rate of teen tobacco smoking and vaping continued to decline over the past year.

"With teen vaping & smoking both declining, policymakers no longer have an excuse to restrict adults from consuming flavored e‑cigarettes & other nicotine delivery systems that make it easier for them to quit tobacco."

https://www.cato.org/blog/misleading-correlation-between-teen-vaping-teen-smoking-declines

 

[kristin]

"Teen smoking has virtually died out. This once unimaginable fact appears in the Centers for Disease Control’s report from the 2024 National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS). According to the survey, only 1.7 percent of high school students were current smokers (i.e., they had smoked on one day or more in the past month). In 2016, the rate was 8.3 percent, five-fold higher.

Champagne should be flowing. Yet no one, not the CDC, the Food and Drug Administration, the surgeon general, nor any member of the rest of the anti-smoking public health community, has issued a celebratory press release. Why?"

- Sally Satel, psychiatrist, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and lecturer at Yale University School of Medicine.

https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2025/04/the-public-health-triumph-no-ones-talking-about/

 

[kristin]

"Vaping is a huge threat to their ideology so they have to attack it. They can’t do it with the truth; the facts don’t support their position. So their only resort is misinformation."

Dr. Michael Siegel discusses his renewed mission & its enemies with Kiran Sidhu.

Leading Pro-Vape Academic “Couldn’t Stand on the Sidelines Any Longer”

 

[kristin]

"The vape danger article carried by The Mirror (now across news networks) is beyond shoddy

The research has not been published
It has not been peer-reviewed
It makes unsupportable claims..."

Check out Dave's thread breaking down the latest junk science vaping "study" here on X:

 

[WorksForMe]

Champagne should be flowing. Yet no one, not the CDC, the Food and Drug Administration, the surgeon general, nor any member of the rest of the anti-smoking public health community, has issued a celebratory press release. Why?"

Follow the money. Lots of people make their living off of fighting teen smoking. If it goes away, so does their money.

 

[kristin]

Dear Members,

Last July, CASAA reached out to our members and allies with an urgent plea for funding. We spent the summer and into the fall approaching potential donors, but fell short of our goal. In turn, CASAA continued cutting costs to the point that we were no longer able to support our small staff of two paid employees. Since August of 2024, CASAA is completely run by volunteers. We have secured funding to enable us to continue our legislative advocacy efforts until August of this year. But beyond that, we do not expect enough future support to continue in any meaningful way.

It is with mixed emotions that we are taking this opportunity to announce that 2025 will be CASAA’s last year of active engagements. While we will be ceasing our legislative advocacy at the end of August, our website, CASAA.org, remains a valuable educational resource documenting the history of vaping, explaining tobacco harm reduction, and celebrating the consumer-led revolution in adoption of safer nicotine products. CASAA will use some of our remaining funds to keep the website active, although we anticipate transforming it into a legacy site. This means that information contained on the site will be pared down so that the site will require little maintenance.

Although we have gratefully received feedback from fellow advocates and industry leaders praising our efforts and noting the significance of our role in the consumer-led tobacco harm reduction movement, those accolades are rarely accompanied by financial support. For the better part of a decade, CASAA has articulated this dissonance by saying that it is absolutely appropriate for businesses to devote most or all of their advocacy budget to state and national trade groups.

While industry support has made up a significant portion of our funding, it was never expected that shops and manufacturers would pay for everything. Being supported by our consumer membership has allowed us to remain independent in our policy positions and advocacy messages that support affordable and legal access to safer alternatives to smoking. But that independence is fragile, and we experienced the consequences from bucking the narrative of the largest tobacco companies when we opposed policies that ban sales of unauthorized products -- products that still make up more than 90% of the safer nicotine market.

Since 2009, CASAA has been a tireless voice of and for consumers who switched away from combustion to safer, smoke-free nicotine products. We have done this work on a shoestring, which is a testament to the power of our stories. CASAA has represented our members in city halls, state legislatures, and federal regulatory bodies, as well as shared the consumer view at professional conferences and in the media. We have brought to our work the heart and soul that only comes from genuine grassroots advocacy. Consmers are being recognized as a vital part of the debate over the responsible regulation of less risky tobacco and nicotine products, which is a pillar of CASAA’s mission.

We are not making this announcement from a place of desperation or futility. This is not the end, but merely a step in the evolution of consumers’ awareness, acceptance, and access to safer nicotine products and a healthier future.

Thank you for standing up for tobacco harm reduction!

Sincerely,

Alex Clark, Executive Director, CASAA

 

[zoiDman]

Very Sad to hear this.

A Big Thanks to Everyone current and past who has been involved with CASAA. As well as those on the State and Local Level that have tried, and in Many Cases, to make a Difference.

 

[bombastinator]

Hmm…. I had a monthly donation, what should i do now?

 

[DJ Colonel Corn]

Hmm…. I had a monthly donation, what should i do now?

I am making monthly donations to CASAA also.
Not sure what steps I should take.

 

[bombastinator]

"Vaping is a huge threat to their ideology so they have to attack it. They can’t do it with the truth; the facts don’t support their position. So their only resort is misinformation."

Dr. Michael Siegel discusses his renewed mission & its enemies with Kiran Sidhu.

Leading Pro-Vape Academic “Couldn’t Stand on the Sidelines Any Longer”

The march of dimes was created to combat polio. Polio got wiped out but the march of domes kept going for many years after. This could be more of the same.