Tennessee Ban

CarolG · March 10, 2011

Email sent. Thanks, Chris.

Kingbtheone · March 10, 2011

got a response back already

"Your e-mail has been read and your opinion duly noted.

Steve Southerland "

tarynwithat · March 10, 2011

My personal email was sent to all of the representatives.

Thanks for keeping us advised.

Christopher · March 10, 2011

so in other words some of them are not even aware of it?

Apparently not. This is your opportunity to send the bill in question and perhaps educated this person on electronic cigarettes. I've already received one response so far today.

Dale Ford responded to me this morning

Thank you for contacting our office. Your input is important to us and we appreciate your comments.
This is indeed an important issue. I will keep this in mind when deciding how to vote on this and please let me know in the future if you have a concern or if I can assist you in any way.
Very Best Regards,
Representative Dale Ford

While a canned response I'm sure let make sure Mr. Ford makes the right decision. If not we'll have to make sure next voting session he sees just how many Vapor Talkers do in fact get out and vote.

easilyamused · March 10, 2011

with all the things effecting our nation currently i find it very hard to understand why e cigs have become top priority in the various states, the only think i can think of is that a behind the scenes effort by the pharmaceutical and tobacco companies must be prompting all of this, otherwise why would a device such as this, which has not really become main stream garner such attention?

Vapmiles · March 10, 2011

Email sent. I have no doubt what so ever that this is big tobacco, I am very happy not smoking, breathing much better, more energy and most of all the STINK is gone. Three of my friends have even switched in the short time I've had my ego. Thanks Chris!

Jflo02 · March 10, 2011

e-mail sent

D1G1TALD3ATH · March 10, 2011

As a vape'r myself I want to help stop any bans like this regardless of the state which it might be in question. Being a TN resident I am absolutely on board with spamming the crap out of these guys about this issue. My main concern is where is this coming from? Someone before posted a similar question and Id like to see someone dig in to it more and find where the aggression towards pv's is coming from. If we could find definitive answers to that we could have better ammunition for fighting the bans, I could just be behind on news since i dont make it on the forums enough so just let me know if i am missing anything, If not and anyone has any knowledge or means of uncovering more information please let us know!

Also when you send your emails add read receipts and follow up on them if you can. Some of my emails have shown deleted without being read!

Quickplaya · March 10, 2011

This is the email response I got... He seems like an intelligent individual that openly gives his office number out, so shall we call to try to get the point across?

Thank you for contacting our office. Your input is important to us and we appreciate your comments.

This is indeed an important issue. I will keep this in mind when deciding how to vote on this and please let me know in the future if you have a concern or if I can assist you in any way.

Very Best Regards,

Representative Dale Ford

Tennessee General Assembly

202A War Memorial Building

Nashville, TN 37243

(615) 741-1717

*Adopt from your local animal shelter*

paise · March 10, 2011

Thank you so much for the addresses and the letter, which I edited a bit to make it more personal. I sent my email off just a moment ago.

While I don't live in Tennessee, I do have a very close friend who is like a sister to me that I'm trying to get to switch over to the E-cigs because she is sounding worse and worse as time passes from her smoking analogs. I do hope she will eventually make the switch.

If anyone has any ideas, I would appreciate it: My friend, my best friend and practically my sister, has tried my e-cigarette when she came in for a visit. I have the Ego E-Cig now. I began with a Janty Dura-C, then moved to the Janty Stick, and now the Ego. This past week, I finally had the money to get one of the cone atomizers with the T-tank cartridges, which I find sooooooo convenient. It's great not to have to constantly drip every few minutes or so.

I have had my friend/surrogate sister give my Ego a try; however, it seems as if it has too much of a throat hit to it. My daughter seems to have the same problem but you have to take into account my daughter has only been smoking for the last several months now and she only smokes about 3 cigarettes a day and those are ultra-lights - or rather they were. She and her new husband have both ordered the Ego E-Cigarette. I sent them with samples of e-liquid I've received and tried in order to keep them in some liquid as they are still catching up on everything as well as trying to finish furnishing the home they have together now. She was at college and her new husband was at home with his mother so they have rather bare walls but they do have plenty of furniture thanks to donations from our family (her father's family and me; I'm estranged from my parents to the point where our youngest child believes my birth father to be dead when in truth, he is an abusive alcoholic who refuses to stop drinking. I've heard his days are numbered as the alcohol has now caused cirrhosis of the liver on top of heart problems - also brought on by his excessive drinking. Normally, I do not believe in lying to my children; however, I believe it's kinder for our youngest to believe/presume my father is dead than to realize he's alive yet won't get sober and stay that way in order to be a part of the lives of his grandchildren; I raised my younger brother for most of his life & brought him home with me after a legal guardianship agreement went into place when he was a few years from being a teenager; I got him out as soon as I was able as our birth parents were physically violent toward each other and our birth father was physically violent toward us too though I did pick fights to redirect his attention to me so he would leave my brother alone as hew as not strong enough to have managed to survive those years of bruises, cuts from cords used to beat on me, and it goes without saying he would never have handled the pain from spiral fractures and outright broken bones when the booze was so thick in that b*stard's head he didn't care if he broke bones or not. I fear if I had not stepped in all those years, my little brother might have contemplated suicide, which I would never have been able to deal with emotionally... so for the greater good, I keep the little white lie going. It is only a matter of time before that man will be dead and buried. He's making it too easy to get there. I do believe the day he's dead, I will feel completely and totally safe for the first time in my life and I'm sure my brother will feel the same.) But I digress...

Is there a way for my daughter and my surrogate sister/best friend to use the e-cigs without getting so much of a throat hit? My e-liquid generally stays around 24mg w/extra flavoring in the exotic flavors from My Freedom Smokes though I do have a separate bottle of liquid I use with a heavier nic dose in it to handle the heavy craving times such as upon waking (well if I slept it would be upon waking but I have chronic insomnia and have for as many years as I can remember), after meals, before bed (or resting as I don't sleep), and when out with friends when we go out to have drinks together as well as at family functions over the holidays. It was odd this past year that I wasn't smoking a tobacco cigarette at our family get-together for Thanksgiving! I had my e-cigarette but still, it felt funny because I have a BIL, DH's uncle, and a nephew who all smoke so it felt strange not having to go outside as the BIL's house where we had Thanksgiving does not smoke nor do they allow smoking in the house so we were always banished to the porch or the fire pit fireplace out back to get our smoke on, so to speak but with the e-cigarette, I was welcome to vape indoors. My SILs, both of them, could not believe the pleasant smell from the vapor as I use marshmallow flavor as my staple but I do have other flavors like sweet apple, cream, vanilla, black cherry, regular cherry, etc... Even my DH who used to piss me off, esp after he gave up dipping Skoal after he had an abscess he SWORE was cancer and I assured him it wasn't (I was right, it was just a canker-type sore on his tongue toward the back where he'd bit the area in his sleep making it look so bad) but you couldn't tell him anything. He stopped dipping then jumped down my throat for smoking and the fact I wouldn't go outside to smoke. I was adamant about the fact that I PAID THE MORTGAGE and I WASN'T ABOUT TO GET PNEUMONIA FROM STANDING OUTSIDE IN THE FREEZING WEATHER, INCLUDING RAIN, ICE, OR SNOW FOR ANYBODY - NOT EVEN HIM! He's come through our front door for several yrs with the same BS statement of, "Is something burning or on fire in here? It smells like something's burning?" I'd be so pissed by then that I'd tell him that yes there was something burning and it was my cigarettes and if he didn't like it he could turn right around and go back to his Mommy's house to live if that's how he felt! I'm sure she'd take care of him; she has for the last 40+ years so she might as well do so until she's dead and then he'd have to grow up or die with her. I know it sounds ugly but when you hear that day after day after day and you can't leave home b/c you can't see well enough to walk let alone to drive and you have no license because of an eye disease, there's no way to blow off all that steam other than getting into an argument until one of us left the house, which was generally him. I'd been me if I had been able to drive. I'd gladly have switched houses with his mother so she could move here and I'd move into her house with our daughter. Our house is much larger than her house but the payments are a bit lower so they could have lived in our house happily ever after for all I cared.

He sniped about the e-cigarette until he couldn't smell it. Then (we share the same doctor, btw) our doctor jumped down his throat with both feet after having been treating me for months after I began using the e-cig (I have monthly Lupus (SLE) and Sjogren's check ups) and told him to shut up and stop bitching because the smoker's cough was gone and I had no rattling or wheezes in my chest. In fact, he said and continues to say that my lungs sound like someone who has never smoked in their life now. I will celebrate my 2nd anniversary of sorts off the analog cigarettes July 7th, 2011. I think that's pretty good and without the bad side effects, I don't have to stop vaping. I gave up so much when I got sick and I lost three separate careers I thoroughly enjoyed because of my health conditions; I can't go out to a bar without a ride with friends and nowadays, our friends are married with children like we have and there's little to no time and even little to no money to go out for drinks over the weekend when we can afford a sitter so I'm stuck behind 4 walls every day with no company except the dog and cat until our 14yo comes homes and while I love her with all my heart, there is only so much of a conversation someone can have with a 14yo.... My surrogate sister/best friend lives in Tennessee, which is why I put my email to use because if I can get her to make the switch, perhaps she can get her husband to make the switch too, which will do wonders for them because even though they don't smoke in the house, there is smoke smell on their clothes and they have a younger son, their 2nd and last child, who was born severely premature, born with heart problems, and has undergone about 5 or 6 surgeries to correct his heart though there is only so much modern medicine can do... He will live with a heart condition for the rest of his life and the smell of smoke does bother him even though they don't smoke inside. If I can get them to switch, it will be great for his parents, of that I have no doubt but even more so, it will be even greater for the son with the heart condition. I just need to figure out how to lower the throat hit to get my friend ON the e-cigarette and keep my daughter and SIL using the e-cigarettes.

I've already explained that they didn't need to inhale the vapor because they will still get the nicotine as if they inhaled as one does with an analog cigarette. I don't know what else to add to help. It just came naturally to me.

I'm glad to have helped and hope it helps and it works for those in Tennessee and any ideas on how to help my friend (who lives in TN btw, as well as my daughter) is greatly appreciated.

Paise

Alright folks we shot the Utah ban down now Tennessee is at it.

This is the bill that will affect everyone in Tennessee. Let's help them out! Please send out those emails!

It is an offense to distribute or sell any product or device containing or
delivering nicotine intended or expected for human consumption that is not a tobacco
product, as defined in § 39-17-1503, unless such product or device has been approved
by the United States food and drug administration for sale as a tobacco use cessation or
harm reduction product or for other medical purposes and is being marketed and sold
solely for that approved purpose.

A. violation of subsection A. is a Class B. misdemeanor. Each day a violation
occurs constitutes a separate offense.

C. In addition to the penalties prescribed in subsection B. the district attorney
general for the county in which the violation occurred may apply for an order compelling

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compliance with this section. In any such proceeding, the court may impose a civil
penalty in an amount not to exceed ten thousand dollars ($10,000) for each violation.
SECTION 19. This act shall take effect July 1, 2011, the public welfare requiring it.

Direct Link to Bill: Click Here

Pre Made Email to send: Click Here (Will only work with email client. Others will have to copy and paste)

Direct links to Vape Bans with email link information: Click Here

Special Thanks to Spiky and Vape Bans. DON'T LET THEM PASS THIS BILL! And for god sakes don't vote in anyone that votes for this bill.

Here is a list of addresses for those that need to email manually.

Christopher · March 10, 2011

Great work guys keep it up.

I'd also like to know where a lot of this is coming from..

mmseng · March 10, 2011

Apparently not. This is your opportunity to send the bill in question and perhaps educated this person on electronic cigarettes.

I think this deserves more of our attention. If these legislators don't even know what they are voting for, then we need to make them aware of it. I propose a secondary official email writeup Basically saying "WTF you need to know about this and here's why". I know the original email has links and stuff, but this is kind of enraging, having to email the people who vote on our behalf to explain what they are voting for. It's like, did you even READ that list of things Big Tobacco sent you, or were you just going to copy n paste onto the ballot?

Edited March 10, 2011 by mmseng

AngelCruz · March 10, 2011

My E-mail has been sent along with my mom as well to everyone thats not a Tennessean Thank you! To lose our rights to choose is very disheartening we have moved back to that Good Ole boy politics here and it is sad not just on bills like this, there are others that take other basic Health choices away . Keeps our fingers Crossed it is rescinded !

What is sad in a 2 mile radius of my home there are in actual fact Ten (10) places of business that you can purchase analog cigarettes !!!!!!!!!!!

Edited March 10, 2011 by AngelCruz

Vaponaut · March 10, 2011

I put a read receipt on my email and it is very interesting how many replies I got saying the following:

Subject: OPPOSE SB0910 /HB1729: Electronic Cigarettes/ Nicotine

Vaporizers

Sent: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 01:49:10 -0600

was deleted without being read on Thu, 10 Mar 2011 12:16:02 -0600

ThaLadyD · March 10, 2011

with all the things effecting our nation currently i find it very hard to understand why e cigs have become top priority in the various states, the only think i can think of is that a behind the scenes effort by the pharmaceutical and tobacco companies must be prompting all of this, otherwise why would a device such as this, which has not really become main stream garner such attention?

Really, don't they have better things to do?

Who else would have the money and resources to keep lobbying for all these bills that keep popping up. It's just never enough for big tobacco.

paise · March 10, 2011

I advocate a lot for various programs such as ending domestic violence, stricter rules regarding the removal of children and the jailing of parents, grandparents, legal guardians, & even foster care takers with regards to child abuse as I was a child of abuse who couldn't get out of the situation b/c back then there was a group known as the "Good Ole' Boys' Club" and never would they stomp on any toes of those who voted for them (part of why my birth father got away w/practically beating my brother and I (mostly me as I stepped in even if it meant picking a fight to keep him off my brother) close to death, stricter laws to protect service dogs (I have a guide dog although he's partially retired but we still work together some; hwr, he's slowed down a lot due to his age; he's most certainly an old man now), doing what I can to stop puppy/kitten mills, spay/neutering programs (low cost programs to make easier for people to spay/neuter their pets), raise awareness of the no-kill shelters, etc...

Personally, I think the reason there is so many wanting to do away with the ability to buy PVs and Liquids is because it is cutting into the tobacco money big time and they are probably screaming like banshees because of it. I'm sure they have something on the drawing board, which isn't worth a hill of beans because of the low-cost of using PVs and buying e-liquids the way we do now. I'd bet dollars to doughnuts they want to put out their own line but can't because of the individual smaller companies' ability to undercut the prices they want to sell their own product at but can't because they wouldn't be making those billions of dollars a year they were making prior to the e-cigs coming into the market and stealing their revenue and being safer than their own products, which are killing people.

The last carton of cigarettes I bought a week prior to getting my first e-cig was $55. I smoked anywhere from 1-2 packs a day or more accurately, within a 24-hr period as I don't sleep due to chronic insomnia. When I look at what I have been saving over nearly 2 years, I can't believe it! Imagine $55 plus tax x 4 (5 on a 5-week month but we'll just go with 4 for this purpose), that comes to $236.50 each month or averaged out to 12 months then divided by 52 weeks it comes to $256+per month because the last year I smoked, there was a jacked up tax put on cigarettes here in NC, in the state that grows and exports more tobacco than any other state in the United States. Hell, tobacco money built Duke University as well as Duke University Medical Center, the clinics for various health problems including the pediatric offices, pediatric specialties, the eye center, and it built the hospital a town or two over from where I live yet despite the fact that tobacco money build these hospitals and colleges, and if there had been no tobacco money they wouldn't exist, the hospitals have the audacity to now forbid anyone from smoking ON THE PREMISES! That's total BS considering where the money came from that put them in business to start with and that pisses me off. It makes me wish the tobacco companies founders would take their money back and then see just how far those hospitals and their fancy clinics would go then... I know it sounds cruel but I can't stand hypocrites and that is all the executives and stockholders are, they are a bunch of bald-faced lying hypocrites who make sure they get their billion dollar bonuses each year yet they overcharge every patient that walks through the door! They won't get them anymore healthcare than to stabilize the people then kick them out the door. There's videos on Youtube where hospital staff members are seen pushing patients out of the hospital, some in their hospital gowns and some of those in hospital gowns in freezing weather with snow on the ground while they call a taxi to come get them but won't pay the bill. That is downright immoral but it's done more often than the public realizes and yet nobody has taken these jerk-offs and chomped them off at the knees by hitting them in the wallet. I truly hope that the National Health Care program goes into effect. At least then EVERYONE who is a US citizen can get assistance and health care regardless and without draining the family savings and IRA retirement funds or even worse, causing them to file for bankruptcy. It's a proven fact that most cases that go before the bankruptcy board are the result of medical bills of a loved one who is dying or has already died.

DH runs his mouth and about how the US has the most advanced health care system in the world; I tell him that while that may be true, what good is it when the 98% of us at the bottom can't gain access to it since our last names are Kennedy, Rockefeller, Bush, Rice, etc... And since when did it become okay to put a price tag on someone's life? We are guaranteed the RIGHT to LIFE, LIBERTY, and the PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS; however, we aren't given the RIGHT TO LIFE b/c the hospitals would rather we die as would the health insurance companies because then they don't have to waste time and resources fighting to prevent giving care so someone who is fortunate enough to get health insurance yet the health insurance companies do whatever they can to NOT pay what they PROMISED while people are dying or are sent home to die despite the fact there is treatment for so many conditions but insurance companies don't want to pay out the money b/c that cuts into their billion dollar in bonus money each year. It's disgusting and I'm ashamed of people like that. I wish the tables could turn and they had to have the same insurance and fight against paying their policy amounts just as they fight to prevent paying benefits that clearly should be covered yet they fight it.

As a vape'r myself I want to help stop any bans like this regardless of the state which it might be in question. Being a TN resident I am absolutely on board with spamming the crap out of these guys about this issue. My main concern is where is this coming from? Someone before posted a similar question and Id like to see someone dig in to it more and find where the aggression towards pv's is coming from. If we could find definitive answers to that we could have better ammunition for fighting the bans, I could just be behind on news since i dont make it on the forums enough so just let me know if i am missing anything, If not and anyone has any knowledge or means of uncovering more information please let us know!

Also when you send your emails add read receipts and follow up on them if you can. Some of my emails have shown deleted without being read!

DarkCutlass · March 10, 2011

Only harms businesses...If this type of law spread this forum would be gone. In fact most forums would close up. (Who do you think pays for ECF, Vapor Talk, Nu Vapor etc) You have to remember if these types of laws spread to other sites and countries suppliers will start dropping like flies. eCig factories in China will likely close up shop. (In the long run)

Many people seem to think that if businesses in the states close it's no big deal. They'll just order it from China. China wants big money not 70 bucks for a starter kit. No profit and they'll move to the next latest and greatest thing.

Also keep in mind this would likely be updated at a later date. These small "oversights" can be updated quite easily. That argument also wouldn't hold much weight in court.

This bill doesn't harm business, it harms everyone.

Think my post might of got misconstruted a little bit. I was not trying to pass forth the impression that its 'no big deal' whatsoever. Was just nit picking the bill, like I love to do with all laws. But is understandable where the small 'oversights' can be easily fixed, where all they got to add to the existing law is 'possess'

Of course I hope that no laws ever get passed, because once passed, its an even bigger hurdle to get them removed, and can be a gateway to worse things happening.

paise · March 11, 2011

I sent an email to Kay Hagan ®, Of NC. She responds with a canned message as if I WAS AGREEING WITH HER VIEW on the topic in question! That royally pissed me off!

It's difficult to realize just how ignorant these people are when you write to them to oppose their actions yet they respond in a manner as if you wrote them stating you agreed with their barbaric actions. And people wonder why we as parents are so dissatisfied with the school systems today? It's because children are not receiving the education they need to learn in order to make viable changes in their futures that will protect the country as a whole and that doesn't mean throwing money down the toilet on private militaries with their contractors who are making 10x what the soldier who should be doing that job makes yet that soldier's family back home are barely making ends meet and many are even becoming homeless to boot. there is something seriously wrong in this country and it didn't start until Bush decided to start a "Wag the Dog" war that continues to cost "US = as in WE THE PEOPLE" trillions of dollars while our sons, brothers, fathers, mothers, sisters, and daughters are dying along with innocent Iraqis and then the torture ordeal, which anyone with a brain knows is illegal in a war because of the little document know by all as the Geneva Convention. I wish someone would have water-boarded Bush and Cheney then continued with McCain and Palin!

I hope I don't offend anyone here but if I do, I do but I don't want any person tortured in my name. I've studied enough psychology in college to know that when you're beating beaten and drowned then beaten and drowned again and again on top of all the other atrocities that happened at Gitmo as well as what we "don't know that happened at Gitmo," it makes me sick to my stomach and I know for a fact that if I were in that situation, I'd likely tell them any lie just to stop the torture, anyone would do the same and I dare others to say they wouldn't. My step-dad's a former Marine and if you could make it to where we live, I'd have him set up a water-boarding demo to find out just what you would say if you had to endure such abuse.

It feels to me at least, that the government, current congress for the most part, has began to think of themselves as our parents and they believe they can run our lives. Well, that last time I checked, I was well over 21 years of age and it is legal for me to smoke, drink, and go out to nightclubs as well as do many other things that adults do. I don't need congressional members acting as if they are my parents. I have children of my own and with regards to my own parents, we have been estranged for a great long time because it didn't take me that long to figure out I was smarter than they were and ultimately less dysfunctional, which is why I got my brother out of that house before he reached the point of no return and I immediately got him into therapy. I'm proud of the fact that he is a loving husband and doting father and he works in a career he's been doing since the summers after he turned 16 years old and then worked with my DH and finally after DH sold his company, we got him in with another contract company although he is an employee, not a contractor and has been with the company for some 15+yrs; within 2 years, he made supervisor. That's more than we can say about our parents.

I had parents and they were two people that should never have procreated or allowed to procreate; I sure as #$^#$%^#^ don't need another set of parents and I most certainly don't need those parents to be the congress of this country! They need to take care of business that is a priority, which is bringing our troops home, getting them the medical help they need so their children don't suffer the same abuse I did thanks to Vietnam.... and then put a stop to the bailing out of companies whose CEOs are still taking billion dollar bonuses while tanking their companies and expecting the public to pay for their stupidity; our schools need to have their budgets switched with the military budget for a while. It's long overdue for the children of this country to begin to climb up the ladder of education when compared to other countries not continue to fall and fail.

Both of my children are/were (oldest should graduate from 3rd degree this spring and she's married and in her own home w/plans to return to college in the fall for another degree) but she along with her younger sister are split-taught. The school teaches what they do and then we have teaching sessions at home where I teach the kids what they need and what the school system seems to have forgotten. Children go to school to learn how to learn first and foremost and then they are taught or should be taught, about history, science, biology (and more than simply abstinence-only - Didn't do Palin much good did it? I can't believe they chose a woman whose teenage daughter was knocked up. Palin should have been home raising those children rather than off gallavanting around the country getting federal money she claimed they did not need yet she took anyhow not to mention the fact she can't name newspapers she reads on a daily basis - talk about an easy question & she flopped on it! Then there's the fact that this woman, who could have very well been president if there had not been such a windfall victory for Obama, thought Africa was a country instead of a continent! I mean is this really a woman who needs to be in politics making decisions for our children and their education? I think not!... So, I made/make sure the girls get the best education I can give them, which must be working b/c our youngest is 2 grade levels ahead of her class-mates and her older sister, who had a learning disability and had to work for every grade she earned, had employers chasing her before she even graduated high school because she was not only a member of HOSA (Health Occupational Student Association), she was an officer, and she had the chance and took it so she could get her state licenses as a certified nursing assistant. She received her grade and certification two weeks before the graduation ceremony for her high school diploma. I could not have been more proud of her than I was already. Out of about 10 companies, she chose one and worked for them for years until she had to change colleges and then gas become so high, even with her Mazda 3, 2006 model fresh off the showroom floor as a graduation present, which she traded in about a year ago for a 2010 model, another Mazda, and has immaculate credit says a lot about her sense of responsibility. She's worked in the public since she 15 years old, paid her own car insurance, bought and paid for her own cell phone, she even bought her 1st car with her money although her dad helped her pick it out to make sure she wasn't taken advantage of because she was so young.

Of the 25 students who could have taken the state board exam the instructor who was also an RN and worked as a teacher at the local college and arranged it so her students could take the test for their state boards, only 3-4 actually took the test and out of those, only 2 passed with flying colors - my daughter with the highest of the grades despite having ADD and a heart condition though she isn't medicated for the ADD; we found a psychologist who uses behavioral modifications. He starts with medication but once the behavior mods are in place and working, they wean off the meds and never go back on them. She's never needed to back on the meds or have a refresher on the tools she must use to keep her ADD in check.

I put a read receipt on my email and it is very interesting how many replies I got saying the following:

Subject: OPPOSE SB0910 /HB1729: Electronic Cigarettes/ Nicotine
Vaporizers
Sent: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 01:49:10 -0600

was deleted without being read on Thu, 10 Mar 2011 12:16:02 -0600

Hurricane · March 11, 2011

I would love to send the email, but it asked me which program to open. I only have Windows Live Mail. When I chose that, it opened up the email client, but no premade email message with the addresses showed up. Any other suggestions? Thanks in advance.

mmseng · March 11, 2011

I would love to send the email, but it asked me which program to open. I only have Windows Live Mail. When I chose that, it opened up the email client, but no premade email message with the addresses showed up. Any other suggestions? Thanks in advance.

Use the copy n paste method.

Open the copy n paste link in a new tab in your browser. Compose a new email in Windows Live Mail. Copy the list of email addresses from the page you opened into the new email's To: field, then copy the message subject and body accordingly. Don't forget to sign.

paise · March 11, 2011

Go to this link: http://www.vapebans.com/TNSenandAsscommitteeshtml.html

Then copy the email addresses either with a semi-colon or the next set that uses commas depending upon which one your email client accepts when adding multiple addresses. You can find out which it takes by going to the help section and checking the context area that tells how to add multiple addresses (add semi-colon or add comma between each email address)

Email addresses separated by semi-colons (Copy and paste these in your TO: Section):

sen.jack.johnson@capitol.tn.gov; sen.mike.faulk@capitol.tn.gov ; sen.charlotte.burks@capitol.tn.gov; sen.mae.beavers@capitol.tn.gov; sen.dolores.gresham@capitol.tn.gov; sen.steve.southerland@capitol.tn.gov; sen.eric.stewart@capitol.tn.gov; sen.reginald.tate@capitol.tn.gov; sen.jamie.woodson@capitol.tn.gov; rep.eddie.bass@capitol.tn.gov; rep.sheila.butt@capitol.tn.gov; rep.jeremy.faison@capitol.tn.gov; rep.john.forgety@capitol.tn.gov; rep.andy.holt@capitol.tn.gov; rep.kelly.keisling@capitol.tn.gov; rep.steve.mcdaniel@capitol.tn.gov; rep.bill.sanderson@capitol.tn.gov; rep.johnny.shaw@capitol.tn.gov; rep.terri.lynn.weaver@capitol.tn.gov; rep.john.windle@capitol.tn.gov; rep.frank.niceley@capitol.tn.gov; rep.dale.ford@capitol.tn.gov; rep.curtis.halford@capitol.tn.gov

Email addresses separated by commas (Copy and paste these in your TO: section if requires comma btw multi-email addresses):

sen.jack.johnson@capitol.tn.gov, sen.mike.faulk@capitol.tn.gov , sen.charlotte.burks@capitol.tn.gov, sen.mae.beavers@capitol.tn.gov, sen.dolores.gresham@capitol.tn.gov, sen.steve.southerland@capitol.tn.gov, sen.eric.stewart@capitol.tn.gov, sen.reginald.tate@capitol.tn.gov, sen.jamie.woodson@capitol.tn.gov, rep.eddie.bass@capitol.tn.gov, rep.sheila.butt@capitol.tn.gov, rep.jeremy.faison@capitol.tn.gov, rep.john.forgety@capitol.tn.gov, rep.andy.holt@capitol.tn.gov, rep.kelly.keisling@capitol.tn.gov, rep.steve.mcdaniel@capitol.tn.gov, rep.bill.sanderson@capitol.tn.gov, rep.johnny.shaw@capitol.tn.gov, rep.terri.lynn.weaver@capitol.tn.gov, rep.john.windle@capitol.tn.gov, rep.frank.niceley@capitol.tn.gov, rep.dale.ford@capitol.tn.gov, rep.curtis.halford@capitol.tn.gov

Subject Line (copy & paste into Subject Line of Email):

OPPOSE SB0910 /HB1729: Electronic Cigarettes/ Nicotine Vaporizers

Body of Email (Insert the following by copying and pasting into the body section of your email -- "BE SURE TO ADD YOUR NAME AT THE BOTTOM OF THE EMAIL"--):

Email body: The Email to COPY/Paste is between the dotted lines... The lines are only a guide to show what you need to copy and paste within the body (but don't copy the dotted lines)

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Tennessee Legislator,

After many years of smoking, I now use an electronic cigarette/nicotine vaporizer instead of smoking. I have heard that SB0910 /HB1729 would ban the sale of electronic cigarettes/nicotine vaporizers to adults and I would no longer be able to purchase them in Tennessee. I am sure that you would not want your constituents to start smoking tobacco cigarettes again, but this will be the unintended consequence of the proposed bill.

These devices are the one thing that finally helped me stop smoking after trying so many other ways. Tobacco cigarettes deliver many dangerous chemicals, but electronic cigarettes deliver nicotine without those dangerous chemicals. I can breathe better and I feel better. I don’t cough and I don’t smell awful anymore.

I know that you have been told that e-cigarettes contain dangerous chemicals, but this is not true. The information you have been given has been proven incorrect many times and in the past 12 months additional research (for example http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/centers-institutes/population-development/files/article.jphp.pdf) has shown these products to be a safer alternative to smoking and effective for hundreds of thousands of people as a substitute for traditional tobacco cigarettes. Two federal courts have already told the FDA that the e-cigarette may not be regulated as a smoking cessation product/drug delivery device. (First Case - http://www.vapersclub.com/SEFDAcourtdecision.pdf and Appeal - http://www.vapersclub.com/appealsrulingfdacase.pdf) I would ask you to please get more current information on the product and to educate yourself before voting on this bill.

I am a member of National Vapers Club and while we support bans on sales to minors we cannot support this bill without an amendment. There is a short 8 minute video and a webpage that we can send to our legislators so that they may educate themselves before they vote on such an important issue. Here is a link.

http://www.vapetube.com/video/519/Legislator-Educational-Video-on-electronic-cigarettes

This is the information packet with the studies referred to in the video.

http://vapersclub.com/legislaturepacket.html

We hope that you will take the time to educate yourself so that you can help protect the health of your constituents who use this product as a safer alternative to smoking tobacco cigarettes.

Thank you for your time.

(insert your name here without the parentheses)

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End of email... Don't include the dotted lines as they are nothing more than a marker of where the email body starts and stops; again, REMEMBER TO ADD YOUR NAME TO THE BODY OF THE EMAIL! IT IS IMPORTANT!

FYI: Some email programs will allow you to request a read receipt and a priority setting. I set my Thunderbird (Mozilla Program; it's the email to Firefox's browser; both are free to use, just google Mozilla. Firefox is the browser sort of like MSIE but without the bugs; and Thunderbird is like Outlook Express but without the bugs & more options available as add-ons much like Firefox's add-ons) Email Client to automatically send "read receipt" and listed the priority as "High."

I truly hope this helps you out. It was a bit tricky for me to figure out but only because I'm tired and my eyes hurt although they are basically useless as I use a screen reader software program that reads to me (It's a program for the blind that reads digital print on the net or on the computer as well as alternative text included in graphic images on websites)

Paise

I would love to send the email, but it asked me which program to open. I only have Windows Live Mail. When I chose that, it opened up the email client, but no premade email message with the addresses showed up. Any other suggestions? Thanks in advance.

Kingbtheone · March 11, 2011

i got several positive responses back from them noting from most of them they want to prohibit underage usage, thats pretty much it, it will never pass

Jflo02 · March 11, 2011

Just FYI several (6) of those emails have been changed/deleted. Message from Yahoo Mailer Daemon failure notice:

Hi. This is the qmail-send program at yahoo.com.

I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.

This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.

<sen.reginald.tate@capitol.tn.gov>:

Connected to 170.142.7.28 but greeting failed.