Do You Like Vape Mail? If So, Take Action!

If you do, you might want to take some action to Save Vape Mail or you might not be able to in the future. Senator Feinstein is attacking the vape industry again. This time with a bill that would prohibit sales of vape products through the mail with “S.1253 – Preventing Online Sales of E-Cigarettes to Children Act”. This bill was introduced back in 2019, but it’s still moving through the system and according to CASAA, we need to contact our legislators.

Last week, CASAA members sent more than 3000 messages to congress urging officials to reject a ban on vape mail shipped via the USPS. Despite your response, S. 1253 is getting closer to moving forward by the day.

We need a sustained response to this bill in order to demonstrate to lawmakers that many people rely on getting vapor products by mail and that consumers shouldn’t be paying unnecessary extra costs in order to access safer alternatives to smoking.

In the midst of a pandemic involving a severe respiratory illness, the last thing that officials should be implementing is a policy that threatens to send millions of people back to smoking!

CASAA has created a form to make it easy to send your concerns in.

Feinstein, from California, wants to ban vaping altogether and is behind several bills attempting to do so. California has been attacking the vape industry forever and it’s all about the money, not teens. If you’ve never seen the “A Billion Lives” movie, you should. If you want to know more about Sen Feinstein’s war on vaping, this background is from her own website.

Senator Feinstein is a co-sponsor of the Stopping Appealing Flavors in E-Cigarettes for Kids (SAFE Kids) Act, a bill introduced by Senator Durbin (D-Ill.) to ban the sale of flavored e-cigarettes.
Feinstein also introduced the bipartisan Preventing Online Sales of E-Cigarettes to Children Act last year with Senators John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.).
Specifically, Feinstein’s bill would require e-cigarette online retailers to verify the age of customers for all purchases, require an adult with ID to be present for delivery, label shipping packages to show they contain tobacco products, and comply with all state and local tobacco tax requirements.
Shortly after the administration announced its ban, Senator Feinstein warned in an op-ed for the San Francisco Chronicle that it fell short and would fail to stop underage vaping.

While I am all for preventing underage vaping, these measures affect adult vapers that rely on USPS to get their e-liquid and supplies.

This bill would destroy Buy/Sell/Trade groups that we love in the Billet Box community!

If you have a few minutes, head over to CASAA and take action.

Here’s how the bill reads:

Introduced in Senate (04/30/2019)

116th CONGRESS, 1st Session

S. 1253

To apply requirements relating to delivery sales of cigarettes to delivery sales of electronic nicotine delivery systems, and for other purposes.

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
April 30, 2019

Mrs. Feinstein (for herself, Mr. Cornyn, Mr. Van Hollen, Mr. Blumenthal, Ms. Harris, Ms. Klobuchar, Mr. Wyden, and Mr. Durbin) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

A BILL

To apply requirements relating to delivery sales of cigarettes to delivery sales of electronic nicotine delivery systems, and for other purposes.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the “Preventing Online Sales of E-Cigarettes to Children Act”.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO THE JENKINS ACT.

(a) In General.—The Act entitled “An Act to assist States in collecting sales and use taxes on cigarettes”, approved October 19, 1949 (commonly known as the “Jenkins Act”) (15 U.S.C. 375 et seq.), is amended—

(1) in section 1 (15 U.S.C. 375)—

(A) in paragraph (2)(A)(ii)—

(i) by striking “includes roll-your-own tobacco” and inserting the following: “includes—

“(I) roll-your-own tobacco”;

(ii) in subclause (I), as so designated, by striking the period at the end and inserting “; and”; and

(iii) by adding at the end the following:

“(II) an electronic nicotine delivery system.”;

(B) by redesignating paragraphs (7) through (14) as paragraphs (8) through (15), respectively; and

“(7) ELECTRONIC NICOTINE DELIVERY SYSTEM.—The term ‘electronic nicotine delivery system’—

“(A) means any electronic device that, through an aerosolized solution, delivers nicotine, flavor, or any other substance to the user inhaling from the device;

“(B) includes—

“(i) an e-cigarette;

“(ii) an e-hookah;

“(iii) an e-cigar;

“(iv) a vape pen;

“(v) an advanced refillable personal vaporizer;

“(vi) an electronic pipe; and

“(vii) any component, liquid, part, or accessory of a device described in subparagraph (A), without regard to whether the component, liquid, part, or accessory is sold separately from the device; and

“(C) does not include a product that is—

“(i) approved by the Food and Drug Administration for—

“(I) sale as a tobacco cessation product; or

“(II) any other therapeutic purpose; and

“(ii) marketed and sold solely for a purpose described in clause (i).”; and

(2) in section 2A(b)(1) (15 U.S.C. 376a(b)(1)), by inserting “NICOTINE/” after “CIGARETTES/”.

(b) Effective Date.—This section, and the amendments made by this section, shall take effect on the date that is 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act.

SEC. 3. NONMAILABILITY OF ELECTRONIC NICOTINE DELIVERY SYSTEMS.

(a) Regulations.—Not later than 120 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the United States Postal Service shall promulgate regulations to clarify the applicability of the prohibition on mailing of cigarettes under section 1716E of title 18, United States Code, to electronic nicotine delivery systems, in accordance with the amendment to the definition of “cigarette” made by section 2.

(b) Effective Date.—The prohibition on mailing of cigarettes under section 1716E of title 18, United States Code, shall apply to electronic nicotine delivery systems on and after the date on which the United States Postal Service promulgates regulations under subsection (a) of this section.