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Heads Up – News – Updates 9.9.2019

ADVOCACY: CASAA’s Vice-President, Secretary and Director of Community Outreach, Jennifer Berger-Coleman, wrote an excellent guest commentary on the irrational and dangerous anti-vaping hysteria sweeping the nation. Another California City Proposes E-Cigarette Ban: Patience Is A Virtue When It Comes To Vaping … Continue reading

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Consumer Advisory: If you are afraid of going back to smoking, seek out other smoke-free alternatives.

[Original post – 09.06.19] [UPDATE – 09.07.19 – Updated for clarity and to include the recent FDA Warning to Consumers.] PEOPLE WHO SMOKE CAN IMPROVE THEIR HEALTH BY SWITCHING TO SMOKE-FREE ALTERNATIVES. CASAA acknowledges that many people who vape nicotine … Continue reading

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Heads Up – News – Updates 9.5.2019

IN THE NEWS: Just days before @GovWhitmer issued her executive order banning flavors, CASAA CEO Alex Clark was interviewed by Michigan CBS affiliate WWMT. We urge Gov. Whitmer to listen to actual adult vapers to understand how important flavors are! Addicted … Continue reading

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Governor Whitmer’s Executive Ban on Vapor Products Is a Hazard to Public Health

PLATTSBURGH, N.Y., Sept. 4, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Today the Consumer Advocates for Smoke-free Alternatives Association (CASAA), a non-profit grassroots consumer organization advocating in support of tobacco harm reduction as a necessary strategy to reduce the early death and disease attributed to smoking, condemns … Continue reading

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Heads Up – News – Updates 9.3.2019

ADVOCACY: CASAA’s Alex Clark gets a chance to tell the FACTS to an NBC affiliate about recent illnesses being attributed to “vaping” that are actually linked to black market street drugs, not the retail vapor products that are helping people quit … Continue reading

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Heads Up – News – Updates 8.30.2019

BOULDER, COLORADO: (UPDATE) City bans sale of low risk, smoke-free flavored vapor products while still allowing sale of combustible cigarettes & denies adults 18-20 who smoke access to products 2X more effective in helping people quit than gum/patch. Boulder bans flavored … Continue reading

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Heads Up – News – Updates 8.27.2019

IN THE NEWS: UK experts react to reporting “vaping” as cause of recent illness outbreak, death in US. “These [reports] must be investigated as a matter of urgency. However, it is not good practice to assume a causal link ahead of … Continue reading

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Heads Up Round Up – 08.24.2019

As expected, reports of people being hospitalized due to a “mystery lung disease” continue to grow. The non-communicable lung disease that is increasingly being linked to products such as K2/Spice and/or adulterated THC cartridges–sold by underground sellers–is now under investigation … Continue reading

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Heads Up – News – Updates 8.23.2019

CATTARAUGUS COUNTY, NEW YORK: (UPDATE) Flavored e-liquid ban temporarily tabled Wednesday by the Cattaraugus County Legislature’s Human Services Committee. “We feel it is better to wait…State Legislature is expected to address the issue in the spring.” Local law banning flavored e-cigarette … Continue reading

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Heads Up – News – Updates 8.22.2019

THE MORE YOU KNOW: A message from CASAA CEO Alex Clark. CASAA.org – The Consumer Advocates for Smoke-free Alternatives Association ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA: (HEADS UP!) 1st reading BANS VAPING OUTDOORS, with NO evidence of any risk to bystanders, in all 56 city parks, … Continue reading

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