GLENWOOD SPRINGS, COLORADO: (CALL TO ACTION!) City moving toward adopting ordinance banning the sale of flavored vapor products and denying adults 18-20 who smoke access to far safer products. Second reading at Aug. 15th meeting. Take action!
CO – Glenwood Springs – Stop a Flavor Ban!
WHAT ADVOCATES SHOULD KNOW: Great read for vaping advocates by tobacco harm reduction advocate (and former director of Action on Smoking and Health in the UK,) Clive Bates.
“In this blog, I examine an extraordinary claim by Professor Stanton Glantz of the University of California at San Francisco. Professor Glantz claims that the US public is right to believe that vaping is as harmful as smoking and that science is now catching up with public opinion.
“This claim is profoundly and dangerously false, and it demands a challenge.”
Vaping risk compared to smoking: challenging a false and dangerous claim by Professor Stanton Glantz
IN THE NEWS: (FDA) Trade association/independent small businesses step up to challenge PMTA deadline threatening their businesses (and product choices for the consumers CASAA represents) with a lawsuit filed on Aug 14th.
Vapor Technology Association And Vapor Stockroom File Lawsuit Against FDA
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: (HEADS UP!) Although already illegal to purchase vapor products under 21 in CA, ANTZ push banning the non-tobacco flavors helping adults who smoke quit. Imagine outcry if they tried banning flavored alcohol b/c of teen drinking.
http://bit.ly/31K8yiD
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT: (HEADS UP!) Senate Finance Committee member Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) announced Wednesday that he will introduce legislation to impose a tax on vapor products to discourage teen use, but that’s more likely to impact lower income adults trying to quit smoking than teens with disposable income.
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This article was originally published at CASAA
Author: KNoll-Marsh