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VIRGINIA: (CALL TO ACTION!) A NEW bill, SB 966 would ban flavored vapor products! HEARING likely on SUN, FEB 9th or MON, FEB 10th. CONSUMERS TAKE ACTION! Click the link to CASAA’s pre-filled form to send a message and plan to attend the hearing!VA – Stop a Flavor Ban! (SB 966)
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KENTUCKY: (CALL TO ACTION!) Governor Andy Beshear’s 2020-2022 state budget proposes an added tax of $1.00 for every 10 mL on vapor products! HB 351 is scheduled for a hearing TUES, FEB 11th. Send a message and plan to attend the hearing!
KY – Stop a Vapor Tax! (HB 351)
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WASHINGTON: (CALL TO ACTION!) SB 6254 is a MONSTER bill that would severely limit consumer access to low-risk vapor products! 37% retail tax in ADDITION to the 9¢/mL tax, flavor ban, 10 mL bottle size, nic cap, no online sales even to adults. TAKE ACTION! CASAA makes it easy to contact your lawmakers with this pre-filled form!
WA – Stop a Vapor Tax and Unreasonable Product Standards! (SB 6254)
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BAD PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY: Gov’t ads “targeting teens” not only piqued #1 reason teens cite for trying vaping (curiosity), they also KNOWINGLY caused public – including adults who smoke – to FALSELY believe that vaping is worse that smoking! #QuitLying
Tobacco Truth: FDA’s So-Called Laser Targeted Advertising is Hypocritical, and Deadly
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RESEARCH: ANTZ claim there’s “no benefit” from nicotine use and say it can cause “youth brain damage”…in rats. Yet many studies contradict those claims. One finds nicotine can imitate acetylcholine, which is important for learning, memory and attention!
The good side of nicotine
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HAWAII: (HEADS UP!) Bill to push smoking/vaping age to 25 passed 1st committee, citing “harmful effect on developing brains” completely based on RAT studies. Moreover, raising to 21 in 2016 did NOTHING to stop youth vaping. Hawaii is now #2 or #3 in US!
Smoking in the crosshairs: Bill raising Hawaii’s legal tobacco age to 25 passes House committee – West Hawaii Today
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VAPE JUNK SCIENCE: Study at least eliminates attributing effects of past smoking to vaping BUT all who smoke were once “never-smokers.” Likely never-smoker vapers would have otherwise started smoking. Comparison should still be to smoking not fresh air!