Take Action to Protect Kids from Flavored E-Cigarettes
The FDA’s authorization of new fruit-flavored e-cigarettes is a dangerous step backward in the fight to protect young people from nicotine addiction. Parents, advocates, and community members can use their voices to push back and recognize the leaders who have already taken action to protect our kids.
Every action makes a difference. Please consider taking one or more of the actions below:
Tell the FDA: Flavored E-Cigarettes Put Kids at Risk
The FDA’s recent authorization of flavored e-cigarettes continues to put kids at risk. As parents navigate youth vaping, the FDA authorizing fruit flavored products like mango and blueberry, making them more appealing, easier to start, and harder to quit - is not only perplexing, but alarming.
Hundreds of parents, grandparents, educators, and advocates have already sent messages to the FDA urging stronger protections for children, but we need even more voices to be heard.
If you haven't taken action yet, please add your voice today and urge the FDA to reverse course and stop green-lighting flavored nicotine products that threaten to addict a new generation of kids.
Thank the State Attorneys General Who Took Action
Attorneys General play an important role in holding agencies and companies accountable when young people’s health is at risk. Recently, a bipartisan coalition of Attorneys General took action on flavored e-cigarettes, pushing back against decisions that make it easier for youth-appealing nicotine products to stay on the market.
If you live in any of these states please send a message thanking your Attorney General for standing with families and helping protect kids from nicotine addiction.
Arizona 8. Maryland 15. North Carolina
California 9. Massachusetts 16. Oregon
Connecticut 10. Minnesota 17. Pennsylvania
Delaware 11. Nebraska 18. Rhode Island
Hawaii 12. New Jersey 19. South Dakota
Illinois 13. New Mexico 20. Vermont
Maine 14. New York 21. Wisconsin
Thank the Senators Who Took Action
Six U.S. Senators are demanding answers from Big Tobacco after raising concerns that political donations and lobbying may have influenced recent FDA decisions on flavored e-cigarettes and nicotine products. Their letters call for greater transparency and accountability, underscoring the need to keep politics and industry influence out of public health decisions that impact our kids.
If you live in one of these states, please take a moment to thank your Senator for standing up for children and fighting to hold the tobacco industry accountable.
Connecticut
Illinois
Massachusetts (both Senators signed)
Oregon
Rhode Island
Thank the U.S. Representatives Who Took Action
Recently, 65 Congress members spoke out against the FDA’s decision to authorize flavored e-cigarettes and called for stronger oversight of youth-appealing nicotine products. See the full list here.
To find out if your Representative signed onto this effort, please fill out the brief form below. If they did, it will send them a quick message, thanking them for standing up for kids and encouraging them to continue fighting for policies that protect youth from nicotine addiction.
