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NEBRASKA
“AG Peterson Joins Coalition Urging Creative Community to Protect Young Viewers from Tobacco Imagery. Mitigate the historic and cumulative impact of watching tobacco imagery by running strong anti-tobacco spots, especially before content with smoking or vaping. Attorney General Peterson joins the attorneys general of Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Florida, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, the Northern Mariana Islands, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, the Virgin Islands, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin in sending the letters.”

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AG Peterson Joins Coalition Urging Creative Community to Protect Young Viewers from Tobacco Imagery

CALIFORNIA
“California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson today led a coalition of 43 attorneys general in urging the creative community to take action to protect young viewers from tobacco imagery in streamed movies and programs. Letters were sent to the Directors Guild of America, Producers Guild of America, Screenwriters Guild of America, Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, and International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees.”

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Attorneys General Becerra and Peterson Lead Bipartisan Coalition in Urging Creative Community to Protect Young Viewers from Tobacco Imagery

OHIO
“Yost believes the guilds’ assistance and support is critical to stopping the renormalization and glamorization of tobacco use, especially youth vaping.”

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AG Yost Joins Coalition Urging Hollywood to Protect Young People from Tobacco Imagery

NORTH CAROLINA
“Attorney General Josh Stein today urged the creative community to take action to protect young viewers from tobacco imagery in streamed movies and programs.”

ARTICLE LINK:
Attorney General Josh Stein Works to Protect Young Viewers from Tobacco Imagery and Vaping Risks

MICHIGAN
“Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel recently joined a coalition of 43 attorneys general in urging the creative community to take action to protect young viewers from tobacco imagery in streamed movies and programs.”

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Attorney General Nessel Joins Bipartisan Coalition

“Lame duck City Council member Michael Nowakowski has decided that one of his last moves in office is to try and ban flavored tobacco products, including everything from vapes to wintergreen dip and menthol cigarettes. Assuming he’s doing this to combat illegal underage vaping, the intent of his proposal is admirable, but the approach is dangerously misguided. A prohibition on these adult products is shortsighted and has the potential to do irreversible economic harm that affects more than me, but also my employees and their families. If the Phoenix City Council votes to implement a flavored tobacco ban, it will only further decimate small, locally owned businesses that have struggled to stay afloat in recent months.”

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City Council proposal to ban flavored tobacco will devastate small business

“A Kentucky-based e-cigarette retailer lacks standing to challenge an FDA deadline for regulatory filings on vapor and nicotine products because the deadline was issued by a federal judge, not the government, the Sixth Circuit held Monday. U.S. District Judge Karen Caldwell, an appointee of George W. Bush, sided with the government and ruled that Vapor Stockroom could not sue the FDA because any injury caused by the accelerated deadline was the result of action by the federal judge in Maryland. A three-judge panel of the Sixth Circuit agreed with Caldwell in a brief, 11-page per curiam opinion on Monday. “The Maryland court’s injunction was not an action by the FDA – it was an action taken by the court itself,” the ruling states.”

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Sixth Circuit Tosses Challenge to E-Cigarette Paperwork Deadline

“Backers of Measure 108 hope broad, bipartisan support and a well-funded campaign will push the effort to increase taxes on cigarettes and create a tax on vapes to victory in November. A “yes” vote establishes a tax on nicotine inhalant delivery systems, such as e-cigarettes and vaping products which are not currently taxed. The funds from the tax increase would be used for public health programs including smoking prevention and cessation programs. The funds from the tax increase would be used for public health programs including smoking prevention and cessation programs.”

BILL TARLING –– So the Oregon Gov’t  intent is to con the public into voting support for penalizing the most successful product used in creating ex-smokers with an additional tax in order to supposedly use that cash grab revenue towards getting people to stop smoking [which is what the vape products were already accomplishing]

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Election 2020: Tobacco, vape tax Measure 108 draws wide support, millions in funding

“The Legislature passed and Governor Newsom signed SB 793 by Senator Jerry Hill (D-San Mateo) on August 28 as Chapter 34. The bill, which banned flavored tobacco, added Article 5 (commencing with Section 104559.5) to Chapter 1 of Part 3 of Division 103 of the Health and Safety Code. Section 1 of the bill added Article 5, which is titled, “Tobacco Sale Prohibition.””

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California Banned the Sale of Flavored Tobacco Products

A PBusardo Review – Thank you Uwell! The Uwell Caliburn G!

Let’s check out the new Caliburn G from Uwell. An update to the wildly popular original Caliburn.

We also find out who won the last “Not A” Contest and kick off a new one to win your very own Uwell Caliburn G!

The Links:

Uwell
VapeSourcing
Geek Vape
Unsalted @ Dash Vapes (Canada)
Unsalted @ Rocky Top Vapor (US)

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“Tobacco legislation and regulation is constantly under review at the local, state and federal levels. In this monthly roundup, Convenience Store News highlights the latest proposals and approved changes happening across the United States.”

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September 2020 Legislative & Regulatory Roundup

“The Consumer Choice Center (CCC) has published an index ranking each U.S. state on the consumer-friendliness of its vapor regulations. Rankings are assigned based on a legislative actions, including restrictions, taxation, and online sales prohibitions. According to the index, California is the “worst state for vaping.” New York, California, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Rhode Island are also among the least consumer-friendly states. Excessive flavor bans, taxes, and prohibitions on online commerce grow the black-market sector and harm consumers who want less harmful alternatives to smoking. If states want to innovate in 2020 and provide adult smokers with an alternative that is less harmful, they should look to reform their state laws to better accommodate this new technology that is helping millions.”

NOTE: Colorado will likely plummet in the near future, as they have heavy vape product taxation on the election ballot under Proposition EE, and are also pushing for complete flavor bans. In fact, under their proposed regulations, cigarettes would be taxed at a lower rate than vape products, and they admitted they are intentionally taxing the vape products in order to cover their budget shortfalls which they mismanaged.

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States Ranked on Vapor Regulations

“The UK E-Cigarette Research Forum (UKECRF) is an initiative developed by Cancer Research UK in partnership with Public Health England (PHE) and the UK Centre for Tobacco and Alcohol Studies (UKCTAS). Among other things, it brings together genuine experts to look at research related to vaping and tobacco harm reduction. The research briefing is part of a series of monthly updates aiming to provide an overview of new studies on electronic cigarettes. The briefings are intended for researchers, policy makers, health professionals and others who hold an interest in such matters.”

ARTICLE LINK:

UKECRF Research Roundup

Here’s the latest from Brent Stafford at Regulator Watch:

Stoptober is back: The UK’s annual challenge to quit smoking in the month of October. According to the NHS if a smoker can stay quit for 28-days then it is 5 times more likely the person quits for good.
Those are great odds. But what about how a smoker chooses to quit, does that improve the odds of success?

For years UK government health organizations have been leading voices in support of vaping as a tool for tobacco harm reduction. Yet the UK is not immune to the massive worldwide campaign of misinformation intended to discredit and destroy vaping as a viable alternative to smoking.

In this episode of RegWatch we are joined by tobacco harm reduction advocate and clinical consultant Louise Ross to discuss realities on the ground in the UK effort to stamp out smoking. Are e-cigarettes being promoted at NHS Stop Smoking Services centers? What is the current UK public perception of vaping? And, how might the demise of Public Health England affect the outcome of the war on vaping?

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