NOVEMBER 28, 2018
THE MORE YOU KNOW: THIS is why ADULT SMOKERS 18 - 20 years old still desperately need access to LOW RISK smoking alternatives. tobacco 21 laws that include #vaping products are NOT responsible #TobaccoHarmReduction policy. #NotABot #EcigsSaveLives Testimonials - CASAA
BELTRAMI COUNTY, MINNESOTA: HEADS UP! At a meeting last week, the Board of Commissioners were introduced to proposed ordinance to raise legal tobacco buying age to 21 (likely including low risk #vaping products.) CASAA Minnesota: https://bit.ly/2ON9DjM
Beltrami County considers raising tobacco age to 21
UPDATE: (BARBERTON, OHIO) Council members didn't "want the responsibility of taking rights away from 18-year-olds because they are legal adults." Thankfully, they also didn't bar them from a much safer alternative to smoking! #THRsavesLives
Council votes no on Tobacco 21 - Barberton Herald
THE MORE YOU KNOW: (VIDEO) "Do we want children to become addicted to anything? No....But keeping a small percent of teenagers from trying e-cigarettes is not worth sacrificing adults whose lives could be saved."
Stossel: Let Them Vape
UPDATE: (MOUNT VERNON, OHIO) Council ELIMINATES provision that would have prohibited adult smokers 18 - 20 access from safer vapor products while still allowing them to purchase cigarettes. Sadly, vaping still treated the same as smoking in indoor ban.
City ties together vaping, smoking regulations
IN THE NEWS: (WISCONSIN) Record low #smoking correlates with 3/5 smokers trying #vaping and 54% of #vapers NOT SMOKING combustible cigarettes, but health officials only credit their "efforts" while worrying over minority of vapers who haven't yet quit.
https://waow.com/news/wisconsin-news/2018/11/27/data-adult-smoking-in-wisconsin-at-record-low/
THE MORE YOU KNOW: Helping adult smokers quit or switch could have bigger impact on youth smoking. 2014 study: "Teens whose parents were current smokers...were 10 TIMES more likely to themselves become regular smokers...than kids with nonsmoking parents."
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...eir-kids-will-too-study-idUSKBN0DT1QV20140513
THE MORE YOU KNOW: THIS is why ADULT SMOKERS 18 - 20 years old still desperately need access to LOW RISK smoking alternatives. tobacco 21 laws that include #vaping products are NOT responsible #TobaccoHarmReduction policy. #NotABot #EcigsSaveLives Testimonials - CASAA
BELTRAMI COUNTY, MINNESOTA: HEADS UP! At a meeting last week, the Board of Commissioners were introduced to proposed ordinance to raise legal tobacco buying age to 21 (likely including low risk #vaping products.) CASAA Minnesota: https://bit.ly/2ON9DjM
Beltrami County considers raising tobacco age to 21
UPDATE: (BARBERTON, OHIO) Council members didn't "want the responsibility of taking rights away from 18-year-olds because they are legal adults." Thankfully, they also didn't bar them from a much safer alternative to smoking! #THRsavesLives
Council votes no on Tobacco 21 - Barberton Herald
THE MORE YOU KNOW: (VIDEO) "Do we want children to become addicted to anything? No....But keeping a small percent of teenagers from trying e-cigarettes is not worth sacrificing adults whose lives could be saved."
Stossel: Let Them Vape
UPDATE: (MOUNT VERNON, OHIO) Council ELIMINATES provision that would have prohibited adult smokers 18 - 20 access from safer vapor products while still allowing them to purchase cigarettes. Sadly, vaping still treated the same as smoking in indoor ban.
City ties together vaping, smoking regulations
IN THE NEWS: (WISCONSIN) Record low #smoking correlates with 3/5 smokers trying #vaping and 54% of #vapers NOT SMOKING combustible cigarettes, but health officials only credit their "efforts" while worrying over minority of vapers who haven't yet quit.
https://waow.com/news/wisconsin-news/2018/11/27/data-adult-smoking-in-wisconsin-at-record-low/
THE MORE YOU KNOW: Helping adult smokers quit or switch could have bigger impact on youth smoking. 2014 study: "Teens whose parents were current smokers...were 10 TIMES more likely to themselves become regular smokers...than kids with nonsmoking parents."
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...eir-kids-will-too-study-idUSKBN0DT1QV20140513