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:44 NYC counsil on health. 1:31 Convienence store owners were there in fill force. They feel unfairly targeted by the ordinaince meant to reduce the number of tobacco retailer licences. 2:21 Tobacco retailers who chose to sell e cigarettes will have to obtain a seperate license. 2:44 This hurts the dedicated e cigarette retail establishments. 3:29 Council member Peter Koo has been vocal about opposition of these bills.He and some other members are opposed because of legitimate concerns about the ever expanding black market. 5:48 Spike Babain raised the point that the FDA has recently aknowledged issue of THR and differing regulatiory process. 7:24 Two bills addressing the licensing caps on tobacco and e cigarette retailers. 9:20 Having your buisness devalued hurts far more than the original bills intend to. Sadly there is still a cap so there will be no new vape shops. 10:30 Unclear about when this goes to the full counsil (The answer to that is today) 11:50 Amending the bills language is very hard when sta

:33 FDA commissioner Gotlieb made an announcement regarding tobacco and nicotine regulation. 1:20 Proposed new deadline for submission of newly deemed tobacco products. A more than 4 year entension. 2:02 Revisiting the PMTA and MRTP process. 2:30 The application and approval process as it stands is really not clear to anyone. 4:00 This extension is not going to affect any other rules as written. (IE warning labels and ingredient listings,those are as is origanllly written) 4:24 This is all proposed and rules will need to be promulgated. 4:44 A rule regarding products standard for e liquid this includes the agency looking at flavors. 5:21 This is interesting as we should have a discussion about the role flavors play in allowing smokers to switch to a low risk tobacco product. 5:25 It's nice to see someone at FDA willing to onvestigate the issue and not weighed down by decades of ideology. 6:04 The other anticipated rules or gudance we believe will include battery safety. 6:39 Very low nicotine cigarettes. http

:54 Nicopure Right to be Smokefree lawsuit update. Judge has ruled in favor of the FDA. 2:24 Next steps in the hands of the legal professionals. 3:11 This outcome was not unexpected but this is why we are using multiple strategies on many fronts. 4:16 CEI VS DOT regulation preventing vaping on airplanes.We were co-plantiffs with the CEI on this lawsuit attempting to address regulatory overreach. The court ruled in favor of the DOT. All of the documentation is at this link and you can even hear some of the oral arguments in this case --> here https://cei.org/litigation/cei-v-dot 7:27 This ruling by the court validates that vaping and smoking are the same. This also takes the power away from the airlines to allow them to adapt and perhaps someday choose to offer the ability to vape to passengers if they so choose to. 12:47 Because this comes from DOT it also stops private planes from allowing people to vape on those flights. 14:37 Govenor Chris Christie from New Jersey signed a tobacco 21 bill into law. This wa

:29 Comment on FDA proposed rule for smokeless tobacco products. :39: 7,683 comments posted to docket. 1:01 Link to CASAA's comment.http://casaa.org/news/casaa-submits-comment-on-fdas-smokeless-tobacco-standards-rule/ 1:11 Noteable comments:Clyde Bates and David Swenor,Carl Phillips,Bryan Fotik,Bill Godshall and Greg Connelly from the AVA. 2:20 How to find :search FDA-2016-N-2527 2:40 Lots of comments on the way the rule was released and that they did not follow the correct proceedure for it. 3:49 A bit of history and speculation on who works for the Center for Tobacco Products and the history of it. 7:29 A little on how the tobacco control act is making it harder for the tobacco comapnies to develop,distribute and create low risk tobacco products. 9:05 Recommended :the search for a safer cigarette from Nova. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/cigarette/ 12:10 A bit on activism and how it could affect the outcomes of these battles. 12:46 On Thursday CASAA helped with a research project that didin't need a huge

1:25 Today is the deadline for submitting comments to the FDA regarding the NNN content of smokeless tobacco. http://cqrcengage.com/casaa/app/act-on-a-regulation?0&engagementId=373393 2:03 CASAA submitted their comment in no small part due to the efforts of Julie Woessner,Brian Carter and Alex Clark with an assist from Amelia Howard. 2:30 FDA promulgated a rule January 23 to restrict the level of NNN (N'-Nitrosonornicotine.) Brad Rodu and Carl Phillips break this down and show this is based on faulty math. http://rodutobaccotruth.blogspot.com/search?q=NNN https://antithrlies.com/2017/07/09/sunday-science-lesson-toxicology-and-the-chains-in-american-football/ 5:29 This isn't a chemical that is added to any tobacco product,this is a naturally occuring substance. 8:04 Our comment http://casaa.org/news/casaa-submits-comment-on-fdas-smokeless-tobacco-standards-rule/ 8:32 This rule was rushed at the very end of the Obama administrations tenure. 9:30 A point made by Brian Fotik from the Reason Foundation whic

:40 Language in AG appropriations bill. (Where the Cole/Bishop language has lived for the past.) 2:07 This is no longer an amendment this is now base language in the bill. 2:30 This year the language has the addition of characterizing flavors. 2:56 Page 99 of the bill https://appropriations.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=394939 3:10 FDA being directed to promulgate a rule about characterizing flavors 3:56 Product standardizing language? 4:04 This language was used in the tobacco control act to ban flavored cigarettes 5:36 Investigation into what exactly characterizing flavors means 6:05 This is sort of unclear but we are investigating what this means 6:25 The possibility to ban flavors is there and has always been there since the FDA was given authority to regulate. 7:42 OMB or OIRA stripped out the flavors language previously. 8:09 This administration is far less hostile to our cause than the previous one was. 9:06 If this language stays in this allows us to look at a predicate date change,

:27 San Francisco flavor ban passed at first reading at their regularly scheduled board meeting. There is another meeting planned but it is still expected to pass. CASAA's nationwide action for this http://p2a.co/hoHP3gO 3:26 Policies that happens in California tend to spread nationwide and this is why we ask people to comment respectfully on this ordinance. 5:02 On New York and the attempted regulation of flavors. 5:42 New Jersey one bill to ban all flavors including tobacco flavor. (Not expected to move at this time but you can never be too careful with legislation) 6:24 D.C. talk about banning flavors there as well. Flavors and regulation of what is appropriate are to some extent on the table this year. 9:15 Unintended consequences black market 14:30 A bit on signature on delivery 22:16 E liquid labelling what's appropriate 24:48 Oregon and specific guidelines on labelling 29:10 A look ahead,highlights on the future of local legislation. 30:41 Legislation is local and why it's so hard for the

:58 Massachusetts Take action to oppose two bills that would make access to smoke-free tobacco and nicotine products needlessly more expensive. S 1576 S 1497 These bills are scheduled for a hearing on Tuesday, June 20, 2017 at 1:00 PM Joint Revenue Committee Hearing Room A-2 Massachusetts State House 24 Beacon St, Boston, MA 02133 Please attend this hearing if you are able to. If you can't then please take action now to oppose these bills by sending a message to committee members urging them to vote no on S 1576 and amend S 1497 to remove section 3! CASAA’s Call to action http://casaa.org/call-to-action/ma-take-action-to-stop-new-taxes-on-vaping-and-a-tax-hike-on-smokeless-tobacco/ Full text of bills https://malegislature.gov/Bills/190/S1576 3:30 Delaware http://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article156503354.html Governor Carney’s FY2018 budget plan has a proposal to include vapor products in other tobacco (OTP) taxes. This proposal also includes a 100% tax hike on OTP, raising the tax to 30% of

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:33 Yellowstone County Montana Alert This rule would prevent vaping within 30 feet of windows,doorways or ventilation systems. http://casaa.org/call-to-action/mt-yellowstone-county-public-hearing-on-indoor-vaping-ban/ CASAA hopes members in Yellowstone County will make plans to attend and/or Submit a comment through Riverstone Health’s online comment form 5:10 Wednesday Alex attended a workshop/training session provided by the harm reduction coalition on New York It was called Who's lung is it anyway? http://harmreduction.org/training-calendar/whos-lung-is-it-anyway-a-harm-reduction-approach-to-smoking-and-nicotine-replacements/ This really is groundbreaking sort of thinking for dealing with pain,suffering and death in the LGBTQ communitiy. There has been amazing work done to reduce harm and suffering from AIDS in this community and yet tobacco harm reduction has not been brought into this space. 10:01 Meeting people where they're at. 14:15 The difference in people's minds between tobacco harm reduction and

:29 St Louis Snus Con update. 20-25 people gathered in St Louis to discuss snus and tobacco harm reduction. First speaker was Brad Rodu. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdpj7gDGbD0&index=5&list=PLhumHnqM4C7t16o7b3F3SJwPVbiAwg9Dr Dr Rodu's blog is a must read. http://rodutobaccotruth.blogspot.com/ 3:48 Lars Renquist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JIa3TYH1Ro&index=1&list=PLhumHnqM4C7t16o7b3F3SJwPVbiAwg9Dr 4:36 Swedish Match's MRTP application. That's being able to market your product as a modified risk product. 5:31 How hard it is to get this to market as a modified risk product. There is no clear path showing you how to do it and only Swedish Match has been able to accomplish that. 6:17 No real answer to the question of whether the MRTP application was supposed to be a Substantial Equivalence Application. But that rumor which has been floating around for a bit was acknowledged. This of course is a political decision but this is in the agency's best interest politically to approve one because t

:27 Live from St Louis 1:39 Citizen's Petition:http://casaa.org/call-to-action/delay-the-fda-comment-on-the-citizen-petition-today You may ask what that is An FDA citizen petition is a process provided by the United States Food and Drug Administration for individuals and community organizations to make requests to the FDA for changes to health policy. It is described in Title 21 of the Code of Federal Regulations. 3:38 fdadelay.org http://casaa.org/call-to-action/help-us-send-letters-to-hhs-sec-tom-price/ This is a call to send letters to HHS secretary Price asking him to delay implementation of federal regulations. 3:55 Both of these actions are a tandem sort of thing. 4:17 The ask in the petition is final guidance for submitting a PMTA and a 24 month delay after final rulemaking for implementation. Submitting is a very in the dark sort of thing,since no one knows how or what to submit this,there is no checklist. No one knows how or what to do this and our manufacturers need help to understand this

1:29 California flavor bans 1:51 Contra Costa County 2:00 Los Gatos May 16 Ordinance passed has exemption for shops deriving 60% or more of their revenue from tobacco. Not bad for vape shops but pulls them out of gas stations and convenience stores. 3:20 Oakland 3:36 Palo Alto California 3:41 Palo Alto and Oakland have the same exemption that Los Gatos has. 3:55 San Leandro Possible hearing June 5. City attorney looking into possible ways to enforce. 4:29 San Francisco the largest and worst. This even goes after menthol products. 4:49 A bit on legislation and how many commissions legislation has to go through before it becomes a law. 5:40 This legislation goes before the public safety and neighborhoods committee. 6:02 San Francisco has 5 vapor shops serving 8 hundred thousand people. 6:16 A bit on vulnerable communities and higher smoking rates. 7:00 Flavor ban legislation being promoted as protecting those communities. 7:20 San Francisco had an existing definition of tobacco products that included vapor

Last night's CASAA update. Since it was a remote feed there were some sound and connectivity issues. 1:00 Washington D.C. E cigarette summit 1:38 Mixed reviews of the summit.This was the first one in the U.S. so the organizers had some tough challenges to get this up and running. This summit included members of tobacco control,CFTFK and various scientists. 2:33 CASAA wasn't listed as pannelists until a week before the summit began. 3:05 Oliver Kershaw's review of the E Cigarette summit https://vaping.com/blog/comment/e-cigarette-summit-usa-where-was-vape/ 4:47 CASAA's table display basicly the history of vapor through the collection of Julie Wossener.These pieces are from 2009 and on. 5:14 Handmade atomizer (copper) A sort of unstated but very visible piece of the dangers the threat of prohibition can bring about. 7:20 The hope that next year the consumer voice will be more well represented on the stage. 8:15 Three month regulation delay from FDA Direct result of Cigar association Of America lawsuit. 9:10 Del

Tonight CASAA's executive director Alex Clark joined CASAA's Jan Johnson to discuss legislative updates. Pennsylvania indoor vaping ban bill. Maryland HB 523 Enacts licensing requirements Tax bill Michigan 81% of wholesale HB 4578 California Flavor ban(s) Cole/Bishop not included in omnibus bill for budget Push for HR 1136 to be included in the budget in September.It's only 5 months away so now is the time to contact your legislators. FDA 3 month regulation delay. This seems to be in relation to the Cyclops vapor lawsuit against the agency (among many others) . Heartland Wisconsin hearing on co-ordination. Untested and new experimental way to combat the agency's over reach. HR 2194 Cigarette Smoking Reduction and Electronic Vapor Alternatives Act of 2017 also experimental. E cigarette summit in Washington Monday May 8. CASAA's Brian Carter will be on a panel and CASAA's Jennifer Berger Coleman will also be on a panel.

New York :Most focused on other tobacco products but some could affect vapers in their home and some could affect retailers as well. 4 ordinances CASAA would have opposition about or specific concerns Intro 1532 this sets a licensing cap on vaping retailers. This bill would make it both harder to sell a business so even if an owner can find a better place to locate their business the license is only good for this single location. 8:01 Alex was there to testify about the dangers of limiting vaping shops for smoker's health. Masking it more difficult to transition full time to a smoke free alternative is unwise. 8:42 A bit on the length of time this hearing took.Hearing started at 10am but Alex didn't get to testify until 4 o'clock 9:21 Many representatives for the various heart,lung and health associations were there to testify as well. 9:32 Rare appearance from Action on Smoking and Health. 10:07 A bit on other ordinances. 13:13 Pace University ordinance criminalizing possession for under 21 year

:32 Alaska SB 63 to get yet another hearing. Tuesday at 8 am Amendment to the bill are due Monday morning. 2:22 Oregon tobacco 21 bill Moving from senate into house. SB 754 Hearing on Monday. 9:11 SB 1 Indiana 9:49 Joplin Missouri on the importance of local people rallying support. 12:06 Press release Malia Cohen city supervisor in San Francisco. Proposing an all out flavor ban including menthol. Ban would wipe out vaping industry in San Francisco. 14:24 On vulnerable communities and tobacco truth. 17:56 New York Bill number 1532 Vapor retailers licensing bill. http://www.csnews.com/product-categories/tobacco/new-york-city-puts-tobacco-use-legislative-agenda This bill caps licensing in New York City. If this passes within 90 days you have only that timeframe to obtain your license. You can't sell your license,you can't transfer it. 26:15 New York Times editorial. Very inflammatory and inaccurate statements. 28:00 Cole /Bishop budget 29:19 New York Times statement 31:17 First paragraph of story. Marketing to

:22 New York budget bill update 2:23 More anti vaping legislation this year for NY. 5:58 Maryland passed licensing bill and there is some question over if there is an online sales ban in there.Speculation over the Commerce Clause and Constitutional issues. 9:28 Alaska SB 63 Expansion of the states indoor smoking law. This leads off with vaping which is highly unusual for a bill of this type. 13:23 Alaska hearing earlier this week on the Alaska bill (CRA) 46 people signed up to testify.Bill is held in committee April 18 meeting at 8 am.If in Alaska visit your AIO to listen and perhaps testify at this hearing. Unclear if anyone will be allowed to sign up to participate since only 12 made it through last time. 16:26 At 9:23 am on the playback bar of this meeting Jay Butler chief, medical officer of the DHS begins to testify and made some interesting comments on the RCP report's 95% less harmful than smoking claims. 21:22 Joplin Missouri tobacco 21 legislation stuck into a bill that has nothing to do with smoke f

CASAA's Alex Clark and Jan Johnson discuss legislative updates and topics of interest to THR advocates.

CASAA's Jan Johnson and Alex Clark discuss THR policy and politics. Tonight's topics include Vape Showcase Letter writing campaign to HHS secretary Price HB 1908 Texas Tobacco 21 bill Call Governor Cuomo at 518- 474- 8390 and ask for vapor language to be removed from the final tax bill. New Mexico indoor use ban made it through committee, call and ask the governor's office for a veto. Vapor tax in Ohio budget bill Maryland Hearing one of two bills imposing licensing requirements on vapor vendors A good read http://casaa.org/news/ucanquit2s-smoking-gun/ Alaska indoor vaping ban moves to house