Latest News On Flavor Ban

[Georgia Boy]

The latest news coming out today is that Trump will sign next week to enforce a Flavor Ban, leaving only tobacco and Menthol flavors. Nobody seems quite sure if anything else is affected.

Please contact your Senators and Congressmen Today, send emails, send tweets whatever you can do, do it.

A Sad Day

 

[Don29palms]

The latest news coming out today is that Trump will sign next week to enforce a Flavor Ban, leaving only tobacco and Menthol flavors. Nobody seems quite sure if anything else is affected.

Please contact your Senators and Congressmen Today, send emails, send tweets whatever you can do, do it.

A Sad Day

Where did you see or hear that?

 

[Eskie]

Do you have a source? The only vaguely vape related political news I read was that Stephen Hahn was finally announced as the next to be appointed FDA Commissioner.

 

[CaveFurby]

Hmmm. Yeah, is there a link to this?

 

[Georgia Boy]

Do you have a source? The only vaguely vape related political news I read was that Stephen Hahn was finally announced as the next to be appointed FDA Commissioner.

Trying to find it Twitter is like a Minefield

 

[Georgia Boy]

here's one:

Scoop: Trump ready to ban vape flavors except tobacco, menthol

I'll post the others later if I find them

 

[CaveFurby]

There is also this little tidbit:
Text - H.R.3942 - 116th Congress (2019-2020): Preventing Online Sales of E-Cigarettes to Children Act
Seems to be more of a proposed ban prohibiting the USPS from transporting vaping materials, if I'm reading this right.
Lets hope this doesn't come to fruition, that would be catastrophic for all. Wouldn't there be major opposition to this?

 

[Georgia Boy]

Where did you see or hear that?

Don it's all over Twitter and apparently several news org's and Facebook

 

[LoveVanilla]

As I noted elsewhere, this is the trifecta for Big Tobacco. This will eliminate much of their competition, groom children to smoke cigarettes, and cause ex-smokers to relapse.

It will also force flavored-nicotine vapers onto a black market that has lately been killing people.

Wow, just wow. Either big tobacco is calling the shots, or this is dumb and dumber.

 

[Georgia Boy]

There is also this little tidbit:
Text - H.R.3942 - 116th Congress (2019-2020): Preventing Online Sales of E-Cigarettes to Children Act
Seems to be more of a proposed ban prohibiting the USPS from transporting vaping materials, if I'm reading this right.
Lets hope this doesn't come to fruition, that would be catastrophic for all. Wouldn't there be major opposition to this?

This is a different proposal you are quoting

 

[Brewdawg1181]

Don it's all over Twitter and apparently several news org's and Facebook

Respectfully, from another Georgia Boy: I'm not all over twitter or snapface, and don't use any of those for news. So I'm with Don - I'd prefer a link to a news org's article, if it's really an item. And the Axios (who's that?) article, is extremely vague. Just says they're planning something within a week without referencing any sources, or even mentioning what led them to that conclusion.

Maybe there's some truth to it, but I wanna see what's really up.

 

[Haktuspit]

The Axios article might be vague but it was relevant enough for CASAA to post on their Facebook page, for what that's worth.

 

[Brewdawg1181]

The Axios article might be vague but it was relevant enough for CASAA to post on their Facebook page, for what that's worth.

Well, maybe Axios really did get a scoop. Still, I'd trust it more if it was at least written like a real news article. But there have been a number of articles from higher profile news orgs over the last couple of weeks hinting it was coming pretty soon.

 

[Georgia Boy]

I can't get to the bottom of it, there are conflicting story's they all seem to reference something is coming next week so I guess wait for further news. As Haktuspit said it on CASSA's Facebook page

 

[LoveVanilla]

Dropped $300 yesterday on a lifetime supply of preferred flavors as that's how I read the tea leaves.

(EDITED : Keep the political stuff out of things)

Edit: Damn, almost forgot to order some Boba's Bounty.

 

[Don29palms]

Don it's all over Twitter and apparently several news org's and Facebook

I was just wondering. I looked on internet and didn't see anything. I don't have Tweeker or Faceplant. Thanks anyway.

 

[vaper1960]

I know it's been said before by others, but technically "tobacco" and "menthol" are flavors. For example, where does RY4 fit into this? Only NETs are really tobacco flavors. How does this work in lawyer speak? Good thing I DIY.

 

[Brewdawg1181]

I know it's been said before by others, but technically "tobacco" and "menthol" are flavors. For example, where does RY4 fit into this? Only NETs are really tobacco flavors. How does this work in lawyer speak? Good thing I DIY.

There'll be some twisting, turning, and gnashing of teeth. I mean, most juices that were considered straight tobacco flavors are just chemical creations, unless they were NET's, which constitute a tiny fraction of a percentage of the market. Just know they'll err on the side of banning pretty much everything.

The arguments over what constitutes tobacco flavor will be pretty interesting (and no doubt, infuriating), though.

For reference, here's the components of Hangsen's TAB, which was my go-to tobacco flavoring before NETs:

Here's Hangsen's 555:

Here's their Red USA:

Notice that none of them contain anything called "tobacco flavor."

 

[Katya]

Notice that none of them contain anything called "tobacco flavor."

I guess it's time to just rename all of our eliquid flavors as follows: Tobacco 1, Tobacco 2, Tobacco 3, etc.

 

[fourmedallions]

Does that mean that DIY flavors and nic will be coming off the shelf? If that is the case, my goose is cooked.