Defending Your Right to Vape in South Dakota Since 2017.
DAKOTA VAPING ASSOCIATION
The Fight Continues!
Thanks to your outreach and continued support, SD House Bill 1064 has been defeated! This radical bill would have criminalized the sale and possession of flavored vape products and resulted in drastic unintended consequences. While it is exciting our legislators are listening, the fight is far from over. The DVA still needs your help sending a loud and clear message to our state government.
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About Us
Established in 2017, the Dakota Vaping Association is a nonprofit 501(c)6 South Dakota trade association made up of vape shops, e-liquid manufacturers, hardware manufacturers, distributors, and the vaping community. With the support of our members and communities, we actively engage in advocacy on both the state and local level to fight against regulations that impact the vaping community and industry.
Our Mission
The Dakota Vaping Association is dedicated to public education, building community, legislative advocacy, and membership support to defend the rights of the vaping community and industry.
Every year, nearly 480,000 Americans and 1,100 South Dakotans die from tobacco-related illnesses. We are organized to promote the businesses that provide healthier nicotine alternatives in the form of electronic cigarettes to tobacco users throughout South Dakota.
The DVA is committed to preventing underage youth from accessing vapor products. We support effective legislation, guidelines and regulation to prevent the purchase of vapor products by minors.
The Dakota Vaping Association is a proud member of the Vapor Technology Association.
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NEWS
Yale Study: Ban on Flavored Vaping Products Led to More Teen Smoking
NEW HAVEN, CT — When San Francisco voters overwhelmingly approved a ballot measure banning the sale of flavored tobacco products in 2018, public health advocates celebrated. After all, tobacco use poses a significa ...
Congress Will Take Up Federal Marijuana Legalization Soon
New bills that would federally legalize cannabis will be introduced soon in both houses of Congress, with the House bill coming as early as next week. Marijuana Moment reports that the House bill is an updated vers ...
FDA’s PMTA List Is Here, and It’s Really, Really Long
The FDA today has finally posted the “legal product” list it promised before last September’s PMTA submission deadline. The list published today includes all vaping products allowed to remain on the market du ...
Medical Weed Approved in Alabama, Cancelled in Mississippi
Governor Kay Ivey signed into law a medical marijuana bill Monday, making Alabama one of just three Deep South states with legal cannabis. Alabama becomes the 37th state to approve a comprehensive medical marijuana ...
FDA Has Sent 103 Warning Letters to Vape Companies This Year
Since our last update on March 12, the FDA has issued 35 additional warning letters to small vape manufacturers and distributors that have not submitted Premarket Tobacco Applications (PMTAs) for some or all of the ...
Another Challenge to FDA Could Be Heard by the Supreme Court
A group of small vaping companies has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to review its lawsuit challenging the validity of the FDA’s vaping regulations, after the action was rejected previously by a federal distri ...
PMTA Confusion Update: FDA “Clarifies” One-Year Sales Extension
Update April 29 Following attorney Azim Chowdhury’s discussion with the Center for Tobacco Products ombudsman (described in the article below) and a letter to CTP Director Mitch Zeller from pro-vaping British c ...
FDA Will Ban Menthol Cigs: Will There Be Flavored Vapes to Switch To?
The FDA Center for Tobacco Products will begin the process of banning menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars—more than a decade after Congress passed the Tobacco Control Act and tossed the menthol hot potato in t ...
Montana Legislature Approves Bill to Block Local Flavor Bans
The Montana legislature has passed a bill that would prevent local governments in the state from imposing flavor bans or otherwise restricting the sales of vaping products. The bill will now go to Governor Greg Gia ...
Durbin Introduces Bill to Tax Vapes Like Cigarettes
Congressional Democrats have introduced a bill that would impose the first federal tax on vaping products, and increase other tobacco taxes for the first time in a decade. Currently, about half of U.S. states have ...
Indiana Passes a Vaping Tax Without Public Input
The Indiana budget bill being passed today will include a tax on vaping products that was negotiated by the state legislature and governor without any opportunity for public input or debate. The state house has alr ...
Commenting on the USPS Vape Mail Regulations (March 22nd Deadline!)
Last week, the American Vaping Association teamed up with the Consumer Advocates for Smoke-Free Alternatives Association to present a webinar on how and why both consumers and businesses should respond to the United Sta ...
Are Big Tobacco’s RJ Reynolds, Altria, and Lorillard deliberately killing vaping?
In May 2016, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released new deeming regulations that essentially reclassified vaping devices as tobacco products. This action allowed the FDA to regulate vapes the same as th ...
Did you know cigarette smoke (not e-cig vapor) contains deadly carbon monoxide?
According to the U.S. Centers from Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), approximately 50,000 people every year visit the emergency room for accidental carbon monoxide poisoning. During last week’s cold snap throug ...
Public Health England Reiterates Its Support of Vaping for Quitting
As dangerous misinformation about vaping spreads around the world, Public Health England steps in to clear the air. Public Health England’s (PHE) seventh independent report on vaping in England, carried out by rese ...