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:54 Nicopure Right to be Smokefree lawsuit update. Judge has ruled in favor of the FDA. 2:24 Next steps in the hands of the legal professionals. 3:11 This outcome was not unexpected but this is why we are using multiple strategies on many fronts. 4:16 CEI VS DOT regulation preventing vaping on airplanes.We were co-plantiffs with the CEI on this lawsuit attempting to address regulatory overreach. The court ruled in favor of the DOT. All of the documentation is at this link and you can even hear some of the oral arguments in this case --> here https://cei.org/litigation/cei-v-dot 7:27 This ruling by the court validates that vaping and smoking are the same. This also takes the power away from the airlines to allow them to adapt and perhaps someday choose to offer the ability to vape to passengers if they so choose to. 12:47 Because this comes from DOT it also stops private planes from allowing people to vape on those flights. 14:37 Govenor Chris Christie from New Jersey signed a tobacco 21 bill into law. This was something that seemed to come from out of left field. 19:02 What makes this shocking to someone living in New Jersey is that Chris Christie has done so well with attempting to remove some shame and stigma from people who might need to seek help for drug rehabilitation. His and the state's willful ignorance of harm reduction for smokers is espically shocking and painful since he had done so much good work on harm reduction in the past. 22:10 The need to make a distinction between antismoking activists and real public health professionals. 22:30 Harm reduction deniers. 24:21 Isolation as a tool to seperate smokers and vapers from society at large. 27:08 This is the third state to pass statewide Tobacco 21 legislation. Hawaii California and now New Jersey have passed these laws. 27:40 Mionnesota seems to be rolling right along with the same program. 28:14 Deleware 5 cents per ml tax passed. On paper this looks like a loss,but this is not as bad as it really could have been. 29:47 VTA confrence update. 33:31 Ohio VTA members doing an amazing job. 35:08 Hill Day. A bit on speaking with your legislators at home and in D.C.