Dakota Vaping Association

02/19/2025

HB 1069 is a backdoor va**ng ban designed to wipe out small businesses, limit consumer choice, and hand the market over to Altria (Philip Morris) and RJ Reynolds. This bill isn’t about safety—it’s about corporate greed and rigging the system to force va**rs back to ci******es.

02/13/2025

HB 1069 has now moved to the Senate, but the fight is far from over. The bill was amended to remove the 2/3rds majority requirement, lowering the threshold for passage. However, some Representatives mistakenly thought they were voting on our amendment—HB 1069B, which would have enforced the PACT A...

02/07/2025

Today, the House Health and Human Services Committee passed HB 1069 with a 7-5 vote, sending it to the House floor for a final decision. If passed, this bill will destroy independent v**e retailers, force South Dakotans back to smoking traditional ci******es, and hand control of the industry over to...

02/04/2025

HB 1069 ties state law to the FDA’s Premarket To***co Product Application (PMTA) process, a system that has been widely criticized as broken and biased. The PMTA process requires manufacturers to submit expensive and complex applications for every va**ng product, including e-liquids and devices. S...

08/31/2020

The VTA, CASAA, and small v**e manufacturers NEED OUR HELP!

A citizens petition has been filed with the FDA to request a 180 day extension to the PMTA (Pre-Market To***co Application) deadline for small, open-system manufacturers that are already in the process of submitting a PMTA and are compliant with other FDA deadlines for regulating v***r products.

These small manufacturers are among us across every state in the nation, and some of them you know and love as your hometown local e-juice and hardware manufacturers across South Dakota. This same extension has already been granted to cigar manufacturers, and we believe that the same accommodation should be granted for small manufacturers of open-system e-juice and hardware products. Many of the Dakota Va**ng Association's members and affiliates fall under this description, and due to complications and delays during the current political climate they have been struggling to complete the PMTA process for their small businesses, same as the majority of open-system v**e manufacturers across the country.

Your access to the products manufactured locally that you have come to love and that have been instrumental in helping you live a smoke-free life hinges on the FDA's every move. We're asking each and every one of you to take the time to ask the FDA to consider the same extension that they have already given to certain combustible to***co products, when va**ng has been demonstratively shown to be safer and should absolutely be granted the same accommodation.

Please click on the link below and get your comment submitted as soon as possible, there is only a short amount of time left for this comment period. CASAA has some sample comments that you can use, but are highly recommending that you customize their samples or write your own so the FDA's system doesn't flag it as spam.

This fight continues, let's show the FDA what we stand for in South Dakota!

Support a Citizen's Petition to FDA for delaying the PMTA deadline for certain small v***r manufacturers! A Citizen's Petition has been filed with the FDA requesting that the agency seek a 1

04/29/2020

We couldn't help but notice that not one of the FDA's warning letters mentioned in this article or any of the supporting links was sent to an age restricted adult oriented v**e shop. Seems the vast majority of youth access to ENDS (and to***co) products at the point of sale overwhelmingly falls into the hands of convenience, to***co and grocery type companies.

Seems to me that carrying age restricted adult products makes a company responsible for maintaining the legal trade of those products and keeping them out of the hands of our youth, and the data continues to prove that the mom and pop brick and mortar v**e shops run responsibility circles around everyone else.

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FDA issued warning letters to retailers/manufacturers who sell flavored, cartridge-based ENDS, saying selling them without marketing authorization is illegal.

04/23/2020

Great news!

PMTA DEADLINE EXTENDED TO SEPTEMBER 9, 2020 BY COURT ORDER. Judge Grimm has entered the order extending the PMTA deadline to 9/9/20.
Read more: https://bit.ly/PMTADeadlineXtended

04/05/2020

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2650771945247332&id=1562626430728561?sfnsn=mo

VTA UPDATE - FROM THE TRENCHES. This week: PMTA Deadline Movement; New York Flavor Ban; Florida Flavor Ban, and more. We break down the week's federal, state and news updates: https://mailchi.mp/v***rtechnology.org/from-the-trenches031320-1318597

03/23/2020

DVA Covid-19 closure updates,

Rapid City quickly reacted to Governor Noem's press conference citing community spread occurring in Beadle County yesterday by holding a special council meeting last night at 6pm.

This meeting was to address an emergency ordinance advised to the city by it's primary medical advisor, Monument Health, to take restrictive action beginning this upcoming week. Rapid City passed the ordinance to follow the CDC Guidelines restricting or closing certain businesses. Legally, there needs to be a second reading of the ordinance, which is scheduled this Friday, March 27th, at which time they will likely vote to begin closing non-essential businesses.

District 32 House Representative Scyller Borglum commented on behalf of small businesses, stating the irreversible economic impact this quick ordinance would have, and that they can do this right by developing a plan for Rapid City before shutting the city down and losing the small business economy.

It sounds like most retail is excluded from the non-essential businesses list, though v**e lounges are specifically mentioned along with cigar bars, casinos, etc.

Huron SD already has these non-essential business closure orders in place, and Sioux Falls will have a meeting on the 24th to discuss potential action.

We encourage any v**e shop in South Dakota that has been able to remain open, and especially those in the Rapid City area, to implement the following recommendations on top of our earlier recommendations:

Discontinue all use of any lounge areas.

Discontinue on-site consumption.

Limit 5 customers in the shop at one time.

Discourage loitering of any kind.

Limit the amount of time for each transaction.

Provide hand sanitizer for customers and employees.

V**e shops need to take every precaution to continue to be considered an essential business. Many retail stores (gas stations, grocery stores, etc.) that will be considered essential carry large amounts of to***co products and a much smaller amount of v**e supplies. If v**e shops are forced to close, to***co use will likely increase and our communities will be cut off from the life-saving technology our businesses promote. We need to take every step we can to stay safe and stay open by following every recommendation from our local and state officials.

We will stay current on this issue and let everyone know updates as we get them.

03/22/2020

This! It really has been one of the things that has been "grinding my gears" as of late. Don't use big scary words to define something much different than it really is unless you're willing to look the true definition in the face and still say it's the same thing.

To be clear a much more real crisis to the word "epidemic" is not something anyone wanted, but it sure has put some things into perspective.

Stay safe out there everyone.

The agency's scaremongering about e-ci******es undermined its credibility on the eve of a true public health crisis.