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The AVA is a nonprofit advocacy group that champions the use of vapor products and electronic cigarettes to help smokers quit.

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Senator Joe Manchin Opposes Nicotine Taxes in Build Back Better

Tonight, while speaking to Bret Baier on Fox News, Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) came out opposed to the nicotine tax in President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better bill. “With where we are right now, a tax on nicotine? That doesn’t make any sense to me whatsoever,” Manchin told Baier. If you are from West Virginia, […]

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FDA Banning Juul? Not Likely, Explains Vaping Advocacy Group

WASHINGTON, D.C. — This morning, the Wall Street Journal revealed that the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Tobacco Products will be imminently issuing marketing denial orders (MDOs) to Juul Labs for its current line of vaping products. As would be expected, this leak from the agency has inspired news stories stating that Juul will soon be pulled […]

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Vapers on Vaping

Smoked since 14 quit at 22

I had been smoking since the age of 14, I had gotten up to 2 packs a day. I decided to stop in my local vape shop in Colorado (Vapor Source) and picked up a vape, and started at a 12 nic, before I knew it I was stepping down to a 6 and then […]

Anthony
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California

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Vaping Research

CDC, FDA & Media Contributed to Regulatory Over-Reactions in Lung Illnesses

AVA Synopsis: The authors examined data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) cases of vaping-related lung injury, the public advice from both the CDC and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), media reporting of the outbreak, “and proposed regulatory responses by governments in the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom.” […]

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