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AVM in Fox Business: Build Back Better package's added vape tax leaves House Dems under scrutiny
Samuel Dorman & Andrew Murray | Fox Business | 12/3/2021
Amanda Wheeler also pointed to National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded research, which estimated the tax would result in "approximately a half million extra teenage smokers overall."
AVM in Fox Business: Pelosi's office defends vape tax, says practice not 'essential need for working families'
Samuel Dorman | Fox Business | 11/19/2021
“Speaker Pelosi is wrong on the math, wrong on the science, and apparently has not even read the government’s own estimates of the public health disaster this vape tax will cause.”
AVM in Filter: Federal Vape Tax Reappears in “Build Back Better”—New Cigarette Tax Vanishes
Alex Norcia | Filter Magazine | 11/4/2021
“Members pushing this tax seem to have no conception of just how intensely irate voters are about it. Millions of vapers cut across every political and social demographic, and this is more than a single-issue passion for them; it’s life or death.”
AVM in Filter: The FDA’s Vape Fiasco Will Perpetuate Smoking Deaths
Helen Redmond | Filter Magazine | 11/2/2021
“We are not surrendering our business or abandoning vapers to cigarettes. As we say in Arizona, this is more than just a fight. It’s going to be a reckoning.”
AVM in Winston-Salem Journal on Proposed Vape Tax
Richard Carver | Winston-Salem Journal | 11/2/2021
"American voters are already livid with paying high prices at the pump and the grocery store. It’s a certainty they will be outraged with a gigantic tax on a product that millions use to quit cigarettes."
AVM in Vaping360: Biden Could Pick Vaping Foe Robert Califf as FDA Chief
Jim McDonald | Vaping360 | 10/15/2021
“Senators should be skeptical and prepared to vote no until we have an FDA commissioner who is willing to use vaping as a tool to promote public health and not continue the FDA’s regulatory arson that leaves former and current smokers without a safe and effective way to quit.”
AVM in Politico: Confusion clouds FDA’s approach to e-cigarettes
Katherine Ellen Foley | Politico | 10/14/2021
“The most generous interpretation is that FDA has made a sweeping clerical error in denying these products.”
AVM in Reason: The FDA Ignores Latest Data Because It Weakens the Case for New Restrictions
Jacob Sullum | Reason | 10/1/2021
“Federal regulators routinely downplay or purposefully spin their own research to prop up an alarmist narrative based on a mirage, and deep-pocketed anti-vaping activist groups continue to ignore or conceal the large-scale public health benefits of our products.”
AVM in Filter: Vape Advocates and Prohibitionists Temporarily Unite to Slam the FDA
By Alex Norcia | Filter Magazine | 9/29/21
“FDA could have approached this by allowing companies that have always been registered with them and inspected by them to continue serving their customers while approaching the broader issue on a basis of sound science and true public health.”
Amanda Wheeler Gives Keynote Address at GTNF 2021
“We are not going to sit still while the FDA endangers our health, crushes our livelihoods, and treats the American people like gullible idiots.”
AVM in Politico: Vape makers struggle to stay in business after FDA bans flavored e-cigs
Katherine Ellen Foley | Politico | 9/22/2021
“We're very committed to following the law,” but “there was a definite moving of goal posts that has happened through FDA throughout the course of the PMTA process.”
AVM in Filter: House Democrats Seek to Hike Taxes on Vapes as Smokers Keep Dying
Alex Norcia | Filter Magazine | 9/14/2021
“The new proposed nicotine tax will finish the job the FDA started when they denied over 90 percent of all vapor products submitted.”
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AVM in Politico: FDA says more than 5 million electronic cigarettes must be taken off the market
Katherine Ellen Foley | Politico | 9/9/2021
“[I]t is absolutely absurd that the same agency that found time to ban over six million vaping products manufactured by small businesses is now indicating they need more time to review products with massive market shares.”
AVM in CNBC: FDA Says It Won’t Complete Review of E-Cigarette Products by Thursday Deadline
Amelia Lucas | CNBC | 9/9/2021
“Lots of very good people who I respect deeply and who helped thousands of smokers quit, got told by our government that their products were illegal.”
Members of Congress speak out on behalf of small businesses in the PMTA process and demand answers from FDA.
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Amanda Wheeler Will Lead New Small Vape Trade Group
Jim McDonald | Vaping 360 | 10/13/2020
Premarket Tobacco Authorization Coalition Letter
09/14/2020 Julie Gunlock
Colorado Smoke-Free Alliance Talks About the Burdensome PMTA
09/11/2020 Diane Caruana
FDA to review huge applications from vaping companies
09/10/2020 Andrew Siddons
National Survey Shows Encouraging Decline in Overall Youth E-Cigarette Use, Concerning Uptick in Use of Disposable Products
09/09/2020 Stephen Hahn
Millions of Applications Could Hit FDA as E-Cig Deadline Arrives
09/09/2020 Anna Edney | Angelica LaVito
An FDA Deadline For Vape Shops Is Today. No One Knows What Comes Next.
09/09/2020 Stephanie Lee | Dan Verago
Today's Deadline for Seeking FDA Approval of Vaping Products Means Small Businesses Have To Pray for Bureaucratic Flexibility
09/09/2020 Jacob Sullum
How Will the PMTA Deadline Affect Vapers and the Industry?
09/07/2020 Jim McDonald
Vaping Advocates and Leaders Hold Successful DC Rally Ahead of Industry-Killing PMTA Deadline & November Elections
09/05/2020 United Vapers Alliance
As the PMTA Deadline Looms, the Vaping Industry Faces Potential Disaster
09/03/2020 Michael McGrady
OPINION | Federal regs confuse little vape with Big Tobacco
07/15/2020 Amanda Wheeler