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Due to the conditions surrounding the COVID-19 outbreak we are continuing to monitor our employees health and taking safeguards to protect our people. Our first priority is the health and safety of both our customers and employees as we implement the practice of social distancing in the workplace.Cali Steam will continue to keep operations running with minimal interruption in service. We are committed to our customers and feel a great responsibility to do our part to keep all of your businesses running smoothly during this transitional time. We are taking the following steps moving forward:As always, we are available to...

This is often a rallying cry for members in our industry and the larger vaper community to act to defend vaping in the statehouses or in the nation’s capital. As our federal and state governments are responding aggressively to the COVID-19 pandemic, everyone of us must ACT NOW to exercise all precautions to ensure that we slow the further spread of the virus. Please encourage everyone you know – old and young – to ACT NOW by heeding the recommendations of our federal and state leaders. We are in a critical period where the actions of everyone can and will...

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...

With the presidential race in full force, hopefuls Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders, announcing plans for a ban on vaping, the issue could take center stage in the 2020 presidential race. An astounding 83 percent of vapers are likely to decide their vote based solely on a candidate’s position on this issue. Millions of vaper voters have spoken: The government must make more harm-reduction products available, rather than stymie choices for smokers.With vaping conclusively proven to be 95 percent less harmful than smoking and twice as effective as any other nicotine replacement products, it is hardly surprising that millions of...

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...