CASAA UPDATED COMMUNICATION

CASAA sent the reply below, along with additonal links to their site for more information.

To clarify I never intended to ask CASAA to contribute directly to our campaign, and never thought that they would ignore the "Vapor Awareness" verbiage. In addition to the quoted message from me (which I assume I submitted on their contact page), I also tried to get their attention through G+ via tags. I assumed they would reply. I did not think anyone had an ignore policy in the nonprofit sector. 

I do not believe that their goals exactly align with ours, but I do applaud their efforts and hope they reconsider their "ignore policy."

People assume too much, including me. The only way to over come this is with open communication. Once again ... we are all on the same side and should respect that. 

CASAA.org

This is my Last Communications with Cassa.org

Unfortunately, many advocates, non-profits, and volunteer organizations are hesitant to accept outside help.

I believe in this and will not give up, this is why I have to ask for help one person at a time. 

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CALL FOR ACTION: Letter Writing Campaign to The United Nations

United Nations Website

Email To: 
inquiries2@un.org 
InfoDesk@ohchr.org

RE: Potential ENDS Ban

Dear United Nations:

I am writing to you as an individual. I am not speaking on behalf of any group or affiliation. I am aware of the debates around the world regarding ENDS (electronic nicotine delivery systems). 

I do not believe that Ecigs and Vaper Pens are the same product. Ecigs are specifically intended to be an alternative version of a tobacco cigarette. While Vaper Pens are entirely different. The difference is similar to comparing walking, to taking a bike, to flying. When I am traveling from New York to London, walking or using a bike will not get me there in any reasonable amount of time. The term "ecig" is not accurate when speaking about devices that do not resemble a cigarette. Would you compare a bike to an airplane? Vaper Pens have helped many people I personally know quit smoking easily. 

I believe Vapor Pens should be used by any current cigarette smoker or former cigarette smoker to aid in their struggle to become a non-smoker. I do not have scientific proof of their effectiveness or risk, and do not have the funds to research it. 

I have witnessed many smokers win their battle with cigarette addiction using ENDS, specifically Vaper Pens (that the EU is proposing to eliminate all together.) 

There are groups of people who want to eliminate small businesses from the ENDS market, by creating mandates that only large companies can afford. There are groups who want to eliminate ENDS from the market completely. 

Responsible rules must be in place to ensure a safe product is available for consumers without a prescription (as this may deter people from trying to use them to quit, since other smoke cessation aids offered for medical use have been expensive and only marginally effective). 

I am a single voice requesting that the United Nations create a task force, to support the development, promotion and implementation of international norms and standards, specifically for Vaper Pens.

I urge the UN to champion for the people around the world who want to eliminate second hand cigarette smoke, while promoting fair ENDS laws that protect small business owners, and maintain the effectiveness and availability of Vaper Pens. I want the choice, and I want the smokers I know who may decide to quit in the future to have the choice as well.

Respectfully,

________________________
Name
Address


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Instructions: 

1. Copy and paste, customize if you wish, the email above and send to:  
• inquiries2@un.org and  InfoDesk@ohchr.org
2. Sing our song, & pat yourself on the back. You are the difference we need to win!
• Smoke Rings Around Your Nosy, Pockets Lined with Money, Without Responsible Means to the ENDS, We ALL FALL DOWN
3. Extra Credit - Use your your influence, to share get your friends and family join our letter writing campaign. 
• Share this on all your social media accounts. 
• Post it in as many groups and communities that you can.
• Print the letter and post it on bulletin boards, and leave copies with the Fax Number for the UN US Mission Office: Fax: 212-415-4053
• Send the letter to schools, and have students participate to prove we are NOT trying to encourage them to SMOKE or VAPE!

Here are some extra credit contacts if you want to blow this out of the water. 

Facebook

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Martin Schulz on Facebook

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Barack Obama on Facebook

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Google+

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Twitter

United Nations onTwitter

https://twitter.com/UN

In Addition:

Find your local United Nations Office and send the letter to there.

United Nations Contacts

http://www.un.org/en/members/index.shtml#u

US Mission Office: Fax: 212-415-4053

According to The World Health Organizations

ENDS (electronic nicotine delivery systems) are devices whose function is to vaporize and deliver to the lungs of the user a chemical mixture typically composed of nicotine, propylene glycol and other chemicals, although some products claim to contain no nicotine. A number of ENDS are offered in flavours that can be particularly attractive to adolescents. Electronic cigarettes (e-cigs) are the most common prototype of ENDS.

#K10Vape World Wide Right to Vape Call to Action

EU President Press Conference
Tuesday December 3 

14:30 - 15:00
E-cigarettes and the state of play of the tobacco products directive

Brussels, Altiero Spinelli building (ASP) - 5G2
Frédérique RIES (ALDE, BE) 

They just don’t get it – Commission proposal for the regulation of e-cigarettes

Article from: www.CliveBates.com

Late last week the European Commission circulated a confidential new proposal for regulating e-cigarettes.   The document was sent only to those negotiating the future of e-cigarettes behind closed doors in Brussels – representatives of the European Parliament and European Council.  This isn’t a final proposal, but it provides the negotiators with something to discuss. The Nicotine Science and Policy website has obtained the document, and it is here.  It is quite frankly appalling – lacking any legitimacy in public health or internal market policy-making… Make no mistake, if implemented this proposal bans every product on the market today and would severely limit options for future products - and may make it commercially unviable to develop in future.

Read full article:

http://www.clivebates.com/?p=1655#comments

From www.Clivebates.com

The following are my "notes and highlights" from the proposed document mentioned above. 
Article 2 
[definition of Electronic cigarettes]
Electronic cigarette means a product, or any components thereof including cartridges and the 
device without cartridge, that can be used for consumption of nicotine containing vapour via a  mouth piece. 

Highlights from the proposal:
Article 18 – Electronic cigarettes
2.b
. . . notification shall be submitted within 6 months of that date. A new notification 
shall be submitted for each substantial modification of the product.
The notification shall include at least the following information: 
b. list of all ingredients contained in and emissions resulting from the use of the 
product, by brand name and type, including quantities thereof; 

Proportionate fees may be charged by Member States for receiving, storing, handling and analysing the information submitted to them. 

3.c,d 
. . . Member States shall require that manufacturers and importers of electronic cigarettes to establish and comply at least with the following manufacturing requirements: 
c) a safety assessment prior to placing on the market, with information on the composition of the product, microbiological quality, impurities and traces, toxicological profiles, and adverse effects; 
d) a legal or natural contact person within the European Union.

Member States shall ensure that electronic cigarettes with refillable cartridges or tanks are not 

placed on the market. Only single use cartridges can be placed on the market. 

4.c 
Member States shall require manufacturers and importers to ensure that:
c) Only flavours which are authorized for use in nicotine replacement therapies can be used in 

electronic cigarettes, unless such a flavour is particularly attractive to young people and non-smokers;

5.a,d,e
Member States shall ensure that:
a) commercial communications with the aim or direct or indirect effect of promoting 
electronic cigarettes are prohibited in the press and other printed publications, with the 
exception of publications that are intended exclusively for professionals in the trade of 
electronic cigarettes and for publications which are printed and published in third countries, 
where those publications are not principally intended for the European Union market; 
d) any form of public or private contribution to radio programmes with the aim or direct or
indirect effect of promoting electronic cigarettes is prohibited;
e) any form of public or private contribution to any event, activity or individual with the aim 
or direct or indirect effect of promoting electronic cigarettes and involving or taking place 
in several Member States or otherwise having cross-border effects is prohibited;

Recitals
a) Electronic cigarettes are a tobacco related product and should be regulated within this 
Directive. They simulate smoking behaviour and are increasingly used and marketed to young 
people and non-smokers. Diverging legislation exists in Member States to regulate these products requiring action at Union level to improve the functioning of the internal market. Other nicotine containing products are not covered by the provisions of this Directive. Electronic cigarettes which are presented as having properties for treating or preventing disease in human beings should not fall under this Directive. They can only be placed on the market if duly authorised under Directive 2001/83/EC. For electronic cigarettes that fall under this Directive, the definition of medicinal products according to Article 1.2.b of Directive 2001/83/EC does not apply. This clarifies the legal situation of this product in the light of Article 2.2 of Directive2001/83/EC.

b) Refillable cartridges or electronic cigarettes with refillable tanks are considered to pose a risk to public health. Such products would for example allow for a circumvention of the flavour 
regulation, they would increase the risk of contamination and they would lead to the wider 
availability of larger quantities of nicotine containing liquids, which can be a risk to 
inexperienced users or children.

c) Given the risk that electronic cigarettes can develop into a gateway to normal cigarettes, and considering that they mimic and normalise the action of smoking, Member States should lay down age limits for their sale to consumers and their use, and shall ensure that their labelling displays sufficient and appropriate information on safe use, in order to protect human health and safety.

d) Responsibility for ensuring that electronic cigarettes comply with the essential safety 
requirements should rest with manufacturers. If manufacturers are not established in the European Union, the natural or legal person who imports electronic cigarettes into the European Union should bear the responsibility. 

e) Disparities existing between national practices on electronic cigarettes advertising and 
sponsorship impede the free movement of goods and the freedom to provide services and create an appreciable risk of distortions to competition. Without further action at Union level, the existing disparities are likely to increase in the coming years, considering also the growing 
market for electronic cigarettes. European legislature should therefore approximate national 
legislation on the advertising and sponsoring of electronic cigarettes. Article 114(3) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union requires the Commission, in its proposals for the establishment and functioning of the internal market concerning health, to take as a base a high level of protection. In this light, restrictions on the advertising of electronic cigarettes is intended to protect public health by regulating the promotion of these products, which can develop into a gateway to normal cigarettes, and which mimic and normalise the action of smoking. This Directive does not harmonise rules on domestic sales arrangements or advertising, nor does it introduce an age limit for electronic cigarettes. Member States are free to regulate such matters in their own domain.

f) Brand names have the potential to attract consumers and maintain their brand loyalty. The
to public health. Such products would for example allow for a circumvention of the flavour 
regulation, they would increase the risk of contamination and they would lead to the wider 
availability of larger quantities of nicotine containing liquids, which can be a risk to 
inexperienced users or children.

c) Given the risk that electronic cigarettes can develop into a gateway to normal cigarettes, and considering that they mimic and normalise the action of smoking, Member States should lay down age limits for their sale to consumers and their use, and shall ensure that their labelling displays sufficient and appropriate information on safe use, in order to protect human health and safety.

f) Brand names have the potential to attract consumers and maintain their brand loyalty. The
strength of tobacco brands names could lead to attracting people – especially young people - to buy and use electronic cigarettes marketed under the same brand. Moreover the use of tobacco trademarks, brand names and symbols for electronic cigarettes could indirectly promote smoking, facilitate the shift of users from one category to the other. It could also undermine national legislation limiting the advertising for tobacco products. Therefore the use of tobacco trademarks, brand names and symbols for electronic cigarettes is prohibited under this Directive.

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