Just last week a group of 13 senators and representatives produced a letter, urging the FDA to "protect our nation’s youth from predatory marketing, flavors that lure youth to toxic nicotine, and easy online access." Another group of politicians at the state level, attorney generals, have banded together to oppose the same exact aspects of our industry that the senators and representatives have.
Again, we would like to reiterate our stance. We are focused on getting tobacco users to use a far more safe product, our products, vaporizers and e-juice.
Flavors are a convenience to our customers who no longer want the taste of tobacco in their mouths, and if our voices are restricted in marketing our products we won't be able to help as many people reduce or stop their tobacco consumption.
This blog post is meant to be a resource for contacting the politicians who oppose our industry. Their names and titles are as follows.
The list of those senators and representatives who signed this letter is as follows:
U.S. Senators:
Barbara Boxer (D-CA)
Dick Durbin (D-IL)
Tom Harkin (D-IA)
Jay Rockefeller (D-WV)
Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)
Edward J. Markey (D-MA)
Sherrod Brown (D-OH)
Jack Reed (D-RI)
Jeff Merkley (D-OR)
Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)
U.S. Representatives:
Henry A. Waxman (D-CA)
Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ)
Diana DeGette (D-CO)
Attorney Generals:
Lisa Madigan - Illinois Attorney General
Greg Zoeller - Indiana Attorney General
Martha Coakley - Massachusetts Attorney General
Eric Schneiderman - New York Attorney General
Tom Horne - Arizona Attorney General
Kamala Harris - California Attorney General
John W. Suthers - Colorado Attorney General
George Jepsen - Connecticut Attorney General
Joseph R. “Beau” Biden III - Delaware Attorney General
Irvin Nathan - District of Columbia Attorney General
Lenny Rapadas - Guam Attorney General
David Louie - Hawaii Attorney General
Lawrence Wasden - Idaho Attorney General
Tom Miller - Iowa Attorney General
Janet Mills - Maine Attorney General
Douglas F. Gansler - Maryland Attorney General
Jim Hood - Mississippi Attorney General
Catherine Cortez Masto - Nevada Attorney General
Joseph Foster - New Hampshire Attorney General
Gary King - New Mexico Attorney General
Mike DeWine - Ohio Attorney General
Ellen F. Rosenblum - Oregon Attorney General
Kathleen Kane - Pennsylvania Attorney General
Peter Kilmartin - Rhode Island Attorney General
Marty J. Jackley - South Dakota Attorney General
Robert E. Cooper, Jr. - Tennessee Attorney General
Sean Reyes - Utah Attorney General
William H. Sorrell - Vermont Attorney General
Robert W. Ferguson - Washington Attorney General
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