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Vape Bans We need YOUR help to protect your right to vape! |
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Vape Bans We need YOUR help to protect your right to vape! |
We need your help fighting the Vermont internet sales ban and the Utah indoor use ban! The most important thing you can do to help is tell EVERYONE you know, whether they vape or not, to write letters using the links below no matter what state they live in! Make videos, twitter it, facebook it, email it, post it, but make sure everyone knows.
Clicking one of the links below will open a pre-filled email for you to send the legislators if you want to help us prevent the bans. Please add more to the letter!!! Tell them how long you smoked for and how e-cigs helped you quit!
DO NOT FORGET TO INCLUDE YOUR NAME AT THE BOTTOM OF THE EMAIL BEFORE YOU SEND IT!!!! Include a phone number if you want. Please send the letters below regardless of what state you are from!!! (Do not include your address unless you are from the state the ban in being proposed in!).
Vermont Ban (Link to the Bill text HERE)
If you are a PC user click here. (if your browser downloads it.. open it in outlook then sign your name and send. If it asks if you want to open it or save it.. just click open and then sign your name and send)
If you are a MAC user click here...
If neither of those work for you, open an email and...
Put this in the "to" section...
apugh@leg.state.vt.us;
shaas@leg.state.vt.us; adonahue@leg.state.vt.us; lbatchelor@leg.state.vt.us;tburditt@leg.state.vt.us;
bill@repbillfrank.com; efrench@leg.state.vt.us;
fmcfaun@leg.state.vt.us;mmrowicki@leg.state.vt.us; matrieber@gmail.com; vapersclub@aol.com
OPPOSE H747 Internet Sales Ban on Electronic Cigarettes/ Nicotine Vaporizers
Vermont Representatives,
I am an e-cigarette user and I found out recently that the Vermont House Committee on Human Services plans to ban internet sales of electronic cigarettes. Electronic cigarettes are not cigarettes at all and they have helped millions of people to quit smoking. If you pass this law as is, in the state of Vermont, thousands of former smokers will have a lot of difficulty getting the supplies that keep them from smoking and may just go buy a pack of cigarettes at the nearest corner store.
Although I understand your concern for the children, there is no evidence that children are using electronic cigarettes and the initial expense of the product makes it cost prohibitive for them to obtain. While I completely support a ban on sales to minors (section 6 of the proposed legislation), I believe that section 9 should be removed from the bill. There are a number of vendors in Vermont who I purchase from and you are taking away my choice to use a product that keeps me from smoking.
I know you try to write laws that protect public health, but voting in favor of this bill without an amendment is a great disservice to public health.Thousands, or perhaps tens of thousands of Vermont residents are at risk of returning to smoking if this alternative is not easily available to them.
Thank you for your time.
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Utah Ban (Link to the Bill text HERE)
If you are a PC user click here. (if your browser downloads it.. open it in outlook then sign your name and send. If it asks if you want to open it or save it.. just click open and then sign your name and send)
If you are a Mac user click here.
If neither of those work for you...
Put this in the "to" section...
governor@utah.gov; gherbert@utah.gov; vapersclub@aol.com
VETO HB245 S03: Indoor Ban on Electronic Cigarettes/ Nicotine Vaporizers
Governor Herbert,
I am an e-cigarette user and
I found out recently that the Utah Senate Workforce Services and Community
and Economic Development Committee received details of a study
commissioned by National Vapers Club (labeled IVAQS – Indoor Vapor Air Quality
Study) that showed there is no significant risk of harm from inhalation of
e-cigarette vapor to bystanders. At this Committee meeting, after receiving a
copy of the abstract for the paper, the study was disregarded and it was said
that there were no studies showing whether e-cigarette vapor was safe.
National Vapers Club has sent
you a copy of this abstract and has offered to provide the details of the study
to your health experts or have you meet with or speak with the lead researcher.
I hope you will read the details of the study they sent you carefully and ask
any questions you have before you vote on this bill. Science has shown that the
level of toxins in e-cigarette vapor present “no significant risk to
bystanders”. It is not fair that I should have to stand with the smokers and
breathe in secondhand smoke to use a product that will not hurt anyone.
Additional studies can also
be found here… http://vapersclub.com/science.php
I know you try to pass laws
based on science. Please consider reading the science before voting.
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