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CALL TO ACTION – Hawaii E-Cigarette Use Ban – HB1321
Last year, the Hawaii Senate Ways and Means Committee briefly considered a bill that would have taxed e-cigarettes at 70% wholesale. Thanks to tireless energy from over 1,000 harm reduction advocates, the Ways and
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Call to Action! Submit Written Comments – Sec. 918 of Tobacco Act
History: The FDA held a public hearing on Section 918 on Monday, December 17, 2012. Many THR advocates testified. See: http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/legislation-news/361023-more-details-analysis-fdas-december-17-hearing.html For the hearing, we issued a Call to Awareness. This is now a related
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Maryland Call To Action
Maryland Tobacco Tax Initiative Link to SB631 Link to HB1153 These bills would: Cause smokeless tobacco products to be taxed at 5-6 times the current tax (the Senate bill would increase tax to 70%,
Read More »Heads up Indiana Vapers!
CALL TO ACTION! Any vapers in Indianapolis and Marion County, Indiana – there will be a public meeting tonight to discuss the smoking ban that includes e-cigs: http://www.indy.gov/eGov/Council/Meetings/Committees/Documents/2012/2rules01-17-12.pdf Please attend and speak if you are
Read More »State of Wisconsin – Call To Action!
Call to Action for Wisconsin RESIDENTS! LRB 1287/1 and 3573/1:AN ACT to renumber 101.123 (1) (h); and to create 101.123 (1) (h) 2m. of the statutes. This bill specifies that the term “smoking,” for
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Boston Globe ecig article and CASAA
Thank you CASAA! We appreciate your commitment in helping smokers find healthier alternatives. If every non-profit health/heart group and/or association was as informed and direct as CASAA we’d be better off. Quitting smoking isn’t
Read More »CASAA successfully stops e-cigarette use ban in Alameda, CA
As reported by CASAA’s Call to Action from November 1st, the Alameda City Council was considering a comprehensive smoking ban; which included electronic cigarettes in the definition of “smoking.” This would have prohibited the
Read More »DOT Plans to Ban Use of E-cigarettes on Aircraft
Today is the last day to get in comments! CASAA has made this VERY EASY to do! You can write your own, short testimonial (just a couple of sentences) on how e-cigarettes have worked
Read More »How health groups fight against healthy laws
A funny (yet true) The Daily Show with Jon Stewart “report” on the hypocrisy of groups like the American Heart Association and the American Cancer Society. Proves what groups like CASAA are up against.
Read More »CASAA submits comments to the DOT
If you have been following this blog, you already know that the Department of Transportation (DOT) is proposing to amend its existing airline smoking rule to explicitly ban the use of electronic cigarettes on
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