FLORIDA: (CALL TO ACTION UPDATE!) SB 1618, denying early ADULT #smokers, #vapers access to safer products AND requiring signature on delivery for vapor products, passed in committee (now exempts cigars.) ACT NOW!
CASAA T21 policy: https://bit.ly/2TWa2qB
FL – Stop unnecessary barriers to safer alternatives to smoking!
THE MORE YOU KNOW: (UK) Rhetorical question – Are teens in UK somehow unique or are reports of a US youth #vaping “epidemic” leading to teen smoking an intentional disinformation campaign? CDC holding full 2018 info, but known number’s still don’t add up.
Rise of vaping ‘does not lead to more teenagers smoking cigarettes’
MANKATO, MINNESOTA: If shops don’t fight flavor restrictions, thinking it’s a “win” for their business, it’s actually a “loss” for both public health and profits when smokers lose full access to safer alternatives & never become #vaping consumers at all.
Menthol ban added to Mankato’s Tobacco 21 ordinance
RESEARCH: The tragic consequences of the disinformation war on vaping now includes the fact that most Americans wrongly think that the products are as or more harmful than cigarettes. Anti-nicotine and tobacco zealots are celebrating this as a success.
More adults wrongly think vaping is worse than cigarettes – Futurity
AUSTIN, MINNESOTA: (UPDATE) City council votes to deny early ADULT #smokers, #vapers access to safer #vaping, #smokefree products (& will likely use that to “justify” more onerous laws later.)
OLMSTED COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS: (UPDATE) County votes to deny early ADULT #smokers, #vapers access to safer #vaping, #smokefree products (& will likely use that to “justify” more onerous laws later.)
MILFORD & TRUMBULL, CONNECTICUT: (UPDATE) Cities vote to deny early ADULT #smokers, #vapers access to safer #vaping, #smokefree products (& will likely use that to “justify” more onerous laws later.)
CASAA T21 statement: https://bit.ly/2TWa2qB
https://bit.ly/2IdkgMj
THE MORE YOU KNOW: Headlines reporting “link” between vaping and seizures even though there really is no “link” shown at all. Could easily find just as many people who had a seizure after petting their cat. Likely gov’t fearmongering caused them to report seizure was from vaping.
“Nothing here suggests these seizures are caused by vaping, represent an elevation compared to background rate, or are higher than among smokers. @SGottliebFDA and @FDATobacco irresponsible and unscientific to do this without also looking the evidence on smoking and seizure risk.”
—-Clive Bates, Director of Counterfactual, Director of Action on Smoking and Health (UK) 1997-2003.
TORRINGTON, CONNECTICUT: (HEADS UP!) PUBLIC HEARING April 15 re: denying early ADULT #smokers, #vapers access to safer #vaping, #smokefree products (& will likely use that to “justify” more onerous laws later.)
CASAA T21 policy: https://bit.ly/2TWa2qB
https://bit.ly/2IapDvR
IN THE NEWS: “With vaping under fire, tobacco-free snuff latest alternative to help smokers quit”…but it contains nicotine & comes in adult-friendly, non-tobacco flavors, so won’t likely escape hysteria of the “ANTZ” (Anti-Nicotine & Tobacco Zealots.)
https://bit.ly/2FS3r6H
NASHUA, NEW HAMPSHIRE: (HEADS UP!) City considers denying early ADULT #smokers, #vapers access to safer #vaping, #smokefree products (& will likely use that to “justify” more onerous laws later.)
CASAA T21 statement: https://bit.ly/2TWa2qB
https://bit.ly/2KeqqOK
MARYLAND: (UPDATE) Lawmakers pass bill with “veto-proof margins” denying early ADULT #smokers, #vapers access to safer #vaping, #smokefree products (& will likely use that to “justify” more onerous laws later.)
CASAA T21 policy: https://bit.ly/2TWa2qB
https://bit.ly/2HXAR7o
THE MORE YOU KNOW: “Sharpless Shouldn’t Stop Snus, the Safer Swedish Smoking Alternative…if snus doesn’t meet the FDA’s standard for being a safer alternative to smoking, maybe nothing will.”
(Great article except inaccurate comment about seizures.)
https://bit.ly/2WIkRtu
THE MORE YOU KNOW: (NEW ZEALAND) Vape-friendly policies (compared to neighbor Australia and many in US) sees youth smoking decline without uptick in non-smoking youth vaping (as in UK.) Are NZ/UK youth unique or is panic elsewhere unwarranted? You decide.
https://bit.ly/2Vsmr2c
ADVOCACY: (TEXAS) College students call on their peers to stand up and fight back against intrusive government legislation that threatens their access to far safer alternatives to smoking, especially in light of 25.6% smoking rate vs 16.9% vaping rate.
http://dailytexanonline.com/2019/04/02/students-need-to-get-involved-oppose-e-cigarette-legislation
COMMENTARY: The “Moral Panic” of the Nicotine “Folk Devils”
“The main takeaway is that “moral panic” and knowing how to discharge it systematically is the common denominator to all instances of regulation and bans targeting lower-risk nicotine products.”
https://bit.ly/2UliFvq
This article was originally published at CASAA
Author: KNoll-Marsh