August 28, 2020
(via CASAA Twitter @CASAAMedia)
Calling all consumers - submit your comment to the FDA petition! Harm reduction alternatives. Another study exposes ANTZ bias. More ANTZ junk science. Another great commentary by Michelle Minton. Heads up in Alaska. Philippines regulates vapor products. Prohibition really, really doesn't work. Pleasanton, CA bans ALL vape sales.
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NATIONAL: (CALL TO ACTION!) A Citizen’s Petition has been filed with the FDA requesting the agency seek a 180-day extension to the PMTA deadline for certain small, open-system manufacturers. CASAA has made it easy for CONSUMERS to submit a comment!
National – FDA Citizen’s Petition – PMTA Delay - CASAA
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HARM REDUCTION CHOICES: Snus (and nicotine pouches) are very low risk alternatives for those who don't want to use other tobacco & vapor products.
“I think that vaping flavor bans create a hole that nicotine pouches might fill." - Alex Clark, CASAA CEO
Smokin’ Smokeless Sales - CStore Decisions
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EXPOSING ANTZ BIAS: Study ridiculously claims vapers might have accidentally vaped hand sanitizer because manufacturers used same bottles and are upset vape companies--as did many companies, from cars to infant formula--used "COVID-19 messaging" in ads.
Vaping ad tactics 'exploited' the pandemic, study says
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ANTZ JUNK SCIENCE: Blaming poor oral health on #vaping, ignoring fact that most vapers previously smoked cigarettes & the few youth who vape daily likely make other impactful choices, such as sugary soda & junk food. Correlation does not equal causation!
Your oral health could be at risk if you vape
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COMMENTARY: (Michelle Minton, CEI) "Even as evidence supporting the relative safety and effectiveness of e-cigarettes emerged, opponents balked. Each study was dismissed for having flaws, limitations, or authors with real or imagined conflicts of interest."
Anti-Nicotine Zealots Only Care about Science When it Says What They Want
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KODIAK ISLAND, ALASKA: (HEADS UP!) Council considering a 37.5% wholesale tax on smoke-free tobacco and vaping products. Reducing incentive to use far lower risk products when 19.1% of your population over 16 yrs smokes is simply bad public health policy!
Borough Assembly explores raising taxes on cigarettes, tobacco products
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AROUND THE WORLD: (PHILIPPINES) Lawmakers wisely decide NOT to ban vaping. "Bill highlights as a policy to consider harm reduction measures as a public health strategy by ensuring that non-combustible alternatives to cigarettes are properly regulated.”
2 House committees approve e-cigs and heated tobacco bill
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INCONVENIENT FACTS: More evidence that bans not only don't work, they push otherwise law-abiding citizens to break the law. "During South Africa's prohibition of cigarette sales, an estimated 93% of smokers bought their cigarettes from illegal sellers."
South Africa Ends Ban on Cigarettes, but Smuggling May Stay
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PLEASANTON, CALIFORNIA: (UPDATE) City bans sale of low risk, flavored smoke-free tobacco & ANY vaping product, leaving people who smoke & vape without locally-available low risk options to cigarettes, which remain easy to purchase around the city.
Pleasanton Council Bans Vape Sales, Restricts Tobacco Sales
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If you’re on Facebook, please be sure to join your CASAA state group to help prevent anti-harm reduction laws like these from spreading through the state! Link: CASAA.org - The Consumer Advocates for Smoke-free Alternatives Association
Join CASAA here: Join CASAA - CASAA
Find your state info here: Find My State Info - CASAA
(via CASAA Twitter @CASAAMedia)
Calling all consumers - submit your comment to the FDA petition! Harm reduction alternatives. Another study exposes ANTZ bias. More ANTZ junk science. Another great commentary by Michelle Minton. Heads up in Alaska. Philippines regulates vapor products. Prohibition really, really doesn't work. Pleasanton, CA bans ALL vape sales.
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NATIONAL: (CALL TO ACTION!) A Citizen’s Petition has been filed with the FDA requesting the agency seek a 180-day extension to the PMTA deadline for certain small, open-system manufacturers. CASAA has made it easy for CONSUMERS to submit a comment!
National – FDA Citizen’s Petition – PMTA Delay - CASAA
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HARM REDUCTION CHOICES: Snus (and nicotine pouches) are very low risk alternatives for those who don't want to use other tobacco & vapor products.
“I think that vaping flavor bans create a hole that nicotine pouches might fill." - Alex Clark, CASAA CEO
Smokin’ Smokeless Sales - CStore Decisions
______________________________________________________________
EXPOSING ANTZ BIAS: Study ridiculously claims vapers might have accidentally vaped hand sanitizer because manufacturers used same bottles and are upset vape companies--as did many companies, from cars to infant formula--used "COVID-19 messaging" in ads.
Vaping ad tactics 'exploited' the pandemic, study says
______________________________________________________________
ANTZ JUNK SCIENCE: Blaming poor oral health on #vaping, ignoring fact that most vapers previously smoked cigarettes & the few youth who vape daily likely make other impactful choices, such as sugary soda & junk food. Correlation does not equal causation!
Your oral health could be at risk if you vape
______________________________________________________________
COMMENTARY: (Michelle Minton, CEI) "Even as evidence supporting the relative safety and effectiveness of e-cigarettes emerged, opponents balked. Each study was dismissed for having flaws, limitations, or authors with real or imagined conflicts of interest."
Anti-Nicotine Zealots Only Care about Science When it Says What They Want
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KODIAK ISLAND, ALASKA: (HEADS UP!) Council considering a 37.5% wholesale tax on smoke-free tobacco and vaping products. Reducing incentive to use far lower risk products when 19.1% of your population over 16 yrs smokes is simply bad public health policy!
Borough Assembly explores raising taxes on cigarettes, tobacco products
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AROUND THE WORLD: (PHILIPPINES) Lawmakers wisely decide NOT to ban vaping. "Bill highlights as a policy to consider harm reduction measures as a public health strategy by ensuring that non-combustible alternatives to cigarettes are properly regulated.”
2 House committees approve e-cigs and heated tobacco bill
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INCONVENIENT FACTS: More evidence that bans not only don't work, they push otherwise law-abiding citizens to break the law. "During South Africa's prohibition of cigarette sales, an estimated 93% of smokers bought their cigarettes from illegal sellers."
South Africa Ends Ban on Cigarettes, but Smuggling May Stay
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PLEASANTON, CALIFORNIA: (UPDATE) City bans sale of low risk, flavored smoke-free tobacco & ANY vaping product, leaving people who smoke & vape without locally-available low risk options to cigarettes, which remain easy to purchase around the city.
Pleasanton Council Bans Vape Sales, Restricts Tobacco Sales
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If you’re on Facebook, please be sure to join your CASAA state group to help prevent anti-harm reduction laws like these from spreading through the state! Link: CASAA.org - The Consumer Advocates for Smoke-free Alternatives Association
Join CASAA here: Join CASAA - CASAA
Find your state info here: Find My State Info - CASAA
