Dr. Ross: California’s “Public Health” System Seems to be Trying to Kill Smokers
Dr. Gilbert Ross of the American Council on Science and Health, in an exclusive article for the California Political News and Views noted, “The net result of all this alarmism against e-cigs is to...
View ArticleCalifornia’s Public Health Lies About E-Cigarettes Will Kill Smokers
Right in line with these messages, so antithetical to public health, comes the new advisory from CDPH. The whole intent of it — “protecting one’s family from e-cigs” — makes the devices sound like...
View ArticleSome studies and research on vapor products
2015 First Vs. New Generation Vaping Devices : Nicotine Absorption According to a study led by Dr. Konstantinos E. Farsalinos, the vaping devices and liquid used in in this research delivered one-third...
View ArticleImmediate Call To Action : SB140 and SB24, April 8th in the Senate Health...
Senate Bill 140 (SB140) would make California the fourth state to pass regulation that treats vaping the same way as smoking. This will severely hinder current smokers from having easy accessibility to...
View ArticleImportant Update
Dear Vaping Community, I am thrilled that NotBlowingSmoke.org has taken on a life of its own. To ensure that our campaign maintains and grows its momentum we are working feverishly to formulate our...
View ArticleMisleading Research by Robert Jacker at Stanford
Dr. Robert Jackler Stanford University School of Medicine 801 Welch Road Stanford, CA 94305 Re: Ramamurthi D, Fadadu RP, Jackler RK. Tob Control Published Online First: [11/06/2015] doi:10.1136/...
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E-Cig Advocates Respond to Misleading Stanford Research
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, 11/30/15, 9:00 AM Eastern. E-Cig Advocates Respond to Misleading Stanford Research Paper published in British Medical Journal contains significant factual errors. Oakley, CA – A...
View ArticleAlameda City, CA Flavor Ban Second Meeting
As we announced last month, the City of Alameda had the first of its two planned meetings to discuss their intentions to introduce a flavor ban policy. Several options were presented based on distances...
View ArticleAlbany CA – Flavor Ban Update
The City Council meeting in Albany CA has been moderately hopeful based on the concerns of several of the city council members who were not ready to move forward on a flavor ban policy. Mayor McQuaid...
View ArticleOakley CA Flavor Ban
No flavor ban in Oakley. While I never allow myself to call anything a “win” since most wins are always of a temporary nature anyway, I think we can safely say that a flavor ban will not be part of the...
View ArticleMarin County CA Flavor Ban
On the same day we were able to deal with the flavor ban in Oakley, but earlier in the morning, the Marin County flavor ban hearing got postponed until a later date. A date that hasn’t been set yet....
View ArticleSacramento Flavor Ban Retailer Meeting
Vape shops, e-liquid manufacturers and all tobacco retail license (TRL) holders in Sacramento should attend a meeting with city officials that will be held on September 18th from 5:00pm to 7:00pm at...
View ArticleRedondo Beach CA Alert
On September 18th at 6PM the city council of Redondo Beach California will be discussing tobacco control plans such as limiting use in public places, options for retail tobacco control policies,...
View ArticleFlavor Bans in California, Multiple Areas!
Those of you who follow our regular updates on the flavor ban policies being introduced across the State of California will likely have noticed things are getting rather busy. Instead of putting out a...
View ArticleSacramento Flavor Ban Calls
There has not been enough opposition to the plans of the City of Sacramento to prohibit the sales of flavored tobacco products, including flavored vapor products. We need constituents to light up the...
View ArticleSacramento Flavor Ban Date Announcement
The retailer meeting between city staff and the tobacco and vapor retailers has just ended. Excellent points were raised by everyone and while there was a level of chaos in a meeting it was good to see...
View ArticleRedondo Beach Update
Redondo Beach Recap: The city is looking at directing staff to come up with a tobacco retail license (TRL) scheme but did not go into any details on parts of the not clearly defined desires for one....
View ArticleSanta Cruz Update
Not much to update on regarding the Santa Cruz meeting with retailers. Thanks to those who made it out there! Staff did not receive much direction on what or how to craft the ordinance (which can be...
View ArticleLos Angeles County Flavor Ban Meeting October 2
THIS POST HAS BEEN EDITED. The previous date shown here was September 25th but the Supervisors will not be taking in public comment at that time on the motion that was made by Mr. Thomas. The date for...
View ArticleSacramento CA Flavor Ban Hearing
It’s been a while since this started and if you need to catch up a bit, feel free to examine the following posts on the subject. After the retailer meeting last month it’s time for the proposed...
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