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ARIZONA VICTORY! VTA and the Arizona Smoke Free Business Alliance worked together to ensure vapor products aren't classified as tobacco in AZ. On a bipartisan vote, SB 1400 failed to move to the state Senate floor. VTA is grateful to have partnered with ASFA on this critical legislative effort. Working with ASFA, we will continue our work to stop youth from accessing vapor products and ensure our industry is uniformly regulated. The Vapor Technology Association (VTA) and Arizona Smoke Free Business Alliance (ASFA) worked diligently to restrict youth access to Vapor Products and Tobacco while ensuring that Vapor Products were...

Each of our products carry the following warning, "Warning: This product contains nicotine. Nicotine is an addictive chemical." We have never disputed that nicotine is a highly addictive chemical; however, our society values personal freedom of choice. There are millions of people worldwide that have been addicted for generations to nicotine via traditional cigarettes. When nicotine addiction develops, it is difficult to stop using tobacco products. Furthermore, while adolescents and young adults may have a general awareness of the risks of cigarette smoking and Juuling, they underestimate the harm and the addictive nature of smoking. We've never hidden the harms...

Amid the epidemic levels of youth use of e-cigarettes and the popularity of certain products among children, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration today issued a policy prioritizing enforcement against certain unauthorized flavored e-cigarette products that appeal to kids, including fruit and mint flavors. Under this policy, companies that do not cease manufacture, distribution and sale of unauthorized flavored cartridge-based e-cigarettes (other than tobacco or menthol) within 30 days risk FDA enforcement actions. Beginning 30 days from the publication of the notice of availability of this guidance in the Federal Register, the FDA intends to prioritize enforcement against these illegally...

In the past two months, a sudden outbreak of vaping-related illnesses has placed e-cigarette use under a critical spotlight. Millions of American adults vape, and a subset gravitate to online communities to share their habit. They congregate on online message boards like Reddit and the comments section of popular YouTube “vape influencers,” discussing their favorite products and flavors.Inside this vaping community, there is a niche group of vapers who’ve adopted a do-it-yourself mentality when it comes to creating their own vape juice — a flavored nicotine mixture sometimes referred to as e-juice or e-liquid. It’s the modern equivalent of rolling...

An outbreak of a vaping-related illness in the United States has sickened hundreds and may be linked to the deaths of seven people, and an epidemic of youth vaping there has been called a "public health crisis."President Donald Trump's administration moved to ban e-cigarette flavors and there are warnings to avoid vaping altogether. But in the UK, there doesn't appear to be an outbreak of vaping-related sickness. Neither has vaping popularity soared among young people who never smoked. Rather, e-cigarettes have been embraced mostly as a way for adults to quit combustible cigarettes. Indeed, health authorities in the UK stand...

The Attorney General of Massachusetts, Maura Healey, joined the growing number of elected officials to call for taxing e-cigarettes and banning flavored vaping products on Wednesday, the same day House leaders said they needed more time to consider whether to tax electronic smoking products or take additional steps to curb vaping by teenagers.Healey, in a speech to business leaders at Bank of America in Boston, said her efforts to go after vaping companies for marketing and selling nicotine products to minors can only accomplish so much to curb youth smoking.Healey's speech to the New England Council came hours before House...