CASAA | The Consumer Advocates for Smoke-Free Alternatives Association

CASAA is a non-profit organization (appying for 501(c)(4) status) that works to ensure the availability of reduced harm alternatives to smoking and to provide smokers and non-smokers alike with truthful information about such alternatives.

Our mission is to ensure the availability of effective, affordable and reduced harm alternatives to smoking by increasing public awareness and education; to encourage the testing and development of products to achieve acceptable safety standards and reasonable regulation; and to promote the benefits of reduced harm alternatives.

Within this site you will find published news stories, scientific studies, links and campaign materials to help in the fight to keep electronic cigarettes and other harm reduction methods publicly available.

CASAA is supporting a new study of the effects of e-cigarette vapor on indoor air quality (IVAQS). Results from this research will help us show that indoor e-cigarette use does not pose a health risk to bystanders. This study is completely funded by donations from people like you! Make your donation for the IVAQS Research Study today.

A Petition for the AAP, ACS, AHA, American Legacy Foundation, ALA, AMA, ASH, FDA, Public Citizen and Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids to change their policy and support the sale and use of ecigarettes as a reduced harm option for committed adult smokers.
SIGN THE PETITION: EcigsSaveLives.info

Electronic cigarette and smokeless alternatives users are strongly encouraged to participate in two new Electronic Cigarette User Surveys! http://casaa.org/news/article.asp?articleID=92&l=a&p=

Please go to http://www.regulations.gov/search/Regs/home.html#submitComment?R=0900006480aa84a7 and urge the FDA to support the Petition submitted by the American Association of Public Health Physicians (AAPHP) requesting the FDA to reclassify and regulate electronic cigarettes (nicotine vaporizers) as tobacco products (instead of trying to ban the products by classifying them as drugs or devices). For more details, go here.

Also, please go to http://www.regulations.gov/search/Regs/home.html#submitComment?R=0900006480aa7cac and urge the FDA to support a second AAPHP petition requesting the FDA to clarify/correct inaccurate and misleading claims about electronic cigarettes (nicotine vaporizers) made at the FDA's July 22, 2009 press conference, and to truthfully inform the public of existing evidence about the products. For more details, go here.