NJ Bans vaping on Thursday!!!

[Spikey]

EDIT AGAIN: OKAY--I THINK WE'VE GOT IT NOW! PLEASE TRY AGAIN! THESE HAVE TO GO OUT NOW!

NO TIME TO WRITE NOW!!! We have to CALL!!!!!!!!


Guys... emails are not going to matter at this point... it is too late.. we MUST start calling! Choose the spot on the list (alphabetical order) where the first letter of your first name is and start calling or you can call them randomly. If you don't know what to say... read the script below.

Thanks for your help everyone! This would be the first full state with a clear ban and we NEED to stop it now or it will spread like a virus!!!!

Repost this wherever you can!!! It is now or never! The vote is tomorrow afternoon 12/10/09!!!


"I am calling in reference to S3053 on electronic cigarettes. I would like to know where the Senator stands. I am strongly opposed to this bill in it's current form and although I support restricting the age of sales to 19 and over, I STRONGLY oppose including it under the indoor clean air act as it does not produce smoke. Thank you for your time today"

Senator Diane B. Allen (609) 239-2800
Senator Bill Baroni (609) 631-9988
Senator Christopher Bateman (908) 526-3600
Senator James Beach (856) 489-3442
Senator Jennifer Beck (732) 933-1591
Senator Anthony R. Bucco (973) 627-9700
Senator Barbara Buono (732) 205-1372
Senator Gerald Cardinale (201) 567-2324
Senator Andrew R. Ciesla (732) 840-9028
Senator Richard J. Codey (973) 731-6770
Senator Christopher J. Connors (609) 693-6700
Senator Sandra B. Cunningham (201) 451-5100
Senator Michael J. Doherty (908) 835-0552
Senator Nia H. Gill, Esq. (973) 509-0388
Senator John A. Girgenti (973) 427-1229
Senator Robert M. Gordon (201) 703-9779
Senator Philip E. Haines (609) 654-1498
Senator Sean T. Kean (732) 974-0400
Senator Thomas H. Kean, Jr. (908) 232-3673 or (908) 918-0414 or (908) 232-2073
Senator Joseph M. Kyrillos, Jr. (732) 671-3206
Senator Raymond J. Lesniak (908) 624-0880
Senator Fred H. Madden, Jr. or 
Senator Kevin J. O'Toole 
Senator Steven V. Oroho or 
Senator Joseph Pennacchio 
Senator Dana L. Redd 
Senator Ronald L. Rice 
Senator M. Teresa Ruiz(973) 484-1000
Senator Nicholas J. Sacco 
Senator Paul A. Sarlo 
Senator Nicholas P. Scutari 
Senator Robert W. Singer 
Senator Bob Smith 
Senator Brian P. Stack or 
Senator Stephen M. Sweeney 
Senator Shirley K. Turner 
Senator Jeff Van Drew or or 
Senator Joseph F. Vitale (732) 855-7441
Senator Loretta Weinberg 
Senator Jim Whelan 

You MUST write to these assholes and tell them they have no right to ban vaping because it doesn't harm anyone and that they can't ban it just because it "looks like" smoking!!!

Here are the email addresses... you can copy and paste them into the email and write one email to all of them... you MUST do it in the next 30 hours or it will be too late!!! Even if you only write one line saying... "please don't take away my choice to vape" or "please don't kill me by sending me back to cancer sticks!" or somethng simple...

You can include things like...
There is no tobacco
There is no burning

Explain that you might never have found out about e-cigarettes if you hadn't seen someone using it indoors and then you woud still be a smoker!

PLEASE do something!!!

The bill number is S3053. Put S3053 or electronic cigarettes in the subject of the email.

Do it NOW fuckers!!! If the entire STATE of NJ bans vaping... your state might be next!

senallen@njleg.org,senbaroni@njleg.org,senbateman@njleg.org,senbeach@njleg.org,
senbeck@njleg.org,senbucco@njleg.org,senbuono@njleg.org,sencardinale@njleg.org,
senciesla@njleg.org,sencodey@njleg.org,senconnors@njleg.org,
sencunningham@njleg.org,sendoherty@njleg.org,sengill@njleg.org,
sengirgenti@njleg.org,sengordon@njleg.org,senhaines@njleg.org,senkean@njleg.org,
Senkean@njleg.org,senkyrillos@njleg.org,senlesniak@njleg.org,
senmadden@njleg.org,senotoole@njleg.org,senoroho@njleg.org,
senpennacchio@njleg.org,senredd@njleg.org,senrice@njleg.org,senruiz@njleg.org,
sensacco@njleg.org,sensarlo@njleg.org,senscutari@njleg.org,sensinger@njleg.org,
senbsmith@njleg.org,senstack@njleg.org,sensweeney@njleg.org,
senturner@njleg.org,senvandrew@njleg.org,senvitale@njleg.org,
senweinberg@njleg.org,senwhelan@njleg.org

Senator Diane B. Allen Republican
senallen@njleg.org

Senator Bill Baroni Republican
senbaroni@njleg.org

Senator Christopher Bateman Republican
senbateman@njleg.org

Senator James Beach Democrat
senbeach@njleg.org

Senator Jennifer Beck Republican
senbeck@njleg.org

Senator Anthony R. Bucco Republican
senbucco@njleg.org"

Senator Barbara Buono Democrat
senbuono@njleg.org

Senator Gerald Cardinale Republican
sencardinale@njleg.org

Senator Andrew R. Ciesla
senciesla@njleg.org

Senator Richard J. Codey Democrat
sencodey@njleg.org

Senator Christopher J. Connors Republican
senconnors@njleg.org

Senator Sandra B. Cunningham Democrat
sencunningham@njleg.org

Senator Michael J. Doherty Republican
sendoherty@njleg.org

Senator Nia H. Gill, Esq. Democrat
sengill@njleg.org

Senator John A. Girgenti Democrat
sengirgenti@njleg.org

Senator Robert M. Gordon Democrat
sengordon@njleg.org

Senator Philip E. Haines Republican
senhaines@njleg.org

Senator Sean T. Kean Republican
senkean@njleg.org

Senator Thomas H. Kean, Jr.
Senkean@njleg.org

Senator Joseph M. Kyrillos, Jr. Republican
senkyrillos@njleg.org

Senator Raymond J. Lesniak Democrat
senlesniak@njleg.org

Senator Fred H. Madden, Jr. Democrat
senmadden@njleg.org

Senator Kevin J. O'Toole Republican
senotoole@njleg.org

Senator Steven V. Oroho Republican
senoroho@njleg.org

Senator Joseph Pennacchio Republican
senpennacchio@njleg.org

Senator Dana L. Redd Democrat
senredd@njleg.org

Senator Ronald L. Rice Democrat
senrice@njleg.org

Senator M. Teresa Ruiz Democrat
senruiz@njleg.org

Senator Nicholas J. Sacco Democrat
sensacco@njleg.org

Senator Paul A. Sarlo Democrat
sensarlo@njleg.org

Senator Nicholas P. Scutari Democrat
senscutari@njleg.org

Senator Robert W. Singer Republican
sensinger@njleg.state.org

Senator Bob Smith Democrat
senbsmith@njleg.org

Senator Brian P. Stack Democrat
senstack@njleg.org

Senator Stephen M. Sweeney Democrat
sensweeney@njleg.org

Senator Shirley K. Turner Democrat
senturner@njleg.org

Senator Jeff Van Drew Democrat
senvandrew@njleg.org

Senator Joseph F. Vitale Democrat
senvitale@njleg.org

Senator Loretta Weinberg Democrat
senweinberg@njleg.org

Senator Jim Whelan Democrat
senwhelan@njleg.org

[eplanet]

Spikey, is this a total ban??? you have got to be fucking kidding me....I will email my ass off.....can we do 1 email to all the addresses? F them!!! lets get on the emails everyone!!!

[MidnighToker]

Spikey,

I just tried emailing all of them twice, and both times I got message failures back. Error message was "551: relaying denied (state 17)"

[Treece]

The bill (S3053) would prohibit vaping anywhere smoking is prohibited. We can't back down on this! We want to *encourage* vaping, not make it more difficult!

There's another bill they're voting on that would prohibit sales to minors. Of course we support that.

This covers the entire state of New Jersey, so we've got to be heard.

Here's what I sent:

Dear Senator:

I'm writing to urge you to please vote NO on S3053, the bill that would prohibit the use of electronic "cigarettes" wherever tobacco cigarettes are prohibited. I hope you'll consider this carefully, and that you'll look to science--not politics--to help you make your final decision. Here's what four scientific authorities have to say about banning the use of electronic "cigarettes" in public places (emphasis is mine):

- Dr. David Baron, former Chief of Staff at UCLA Medical Center, appeared in a video about the electronic cigarette, Smoke-Stik: All that's happening is you're heating up a liquid to the point of becoming a vapor. So referring to it as smoke doesn't make sense at all. Therefore, considering it subject to a smoking ban doesn't really make sense, either."

- From Dr. Michael Siegel, Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health, who also has 20 years of experience in Tobacco Control: "There is no existing evidence that e-cigarettes pose a risk for nonsmokers. The nicotine exposure from the exhaled vapor produced is likely to be extremely small and there is no reason to think that it poses a danger for nonsmokers. But there is certainly no evidence to suggest that it poses a hazard."

- From Dr. Carl Phillips, Associate Professor at the University of Alberta School of Public Health: "The claim that the trivial amount of vapor would be much of a risk seems ridiculously far-fetched."

- From Dr. Brad Rodu, Professor of Medicine at the University of Louisville: "Claiming that e-cigarettes are dangerous for non-smokers is about as credible as claiming that air travel is dangerous for people who never set foot in an airplane."

As you can see, banning the use of electronic "cigarettes" in places where tobacco smoke is prohibited has no basis in science and is in direct opposition to any policy truly concerned with public health, which surely should include anything that dissuades people from inhaling tobacco smoke, as electronic "cigarettes" do. S3053 would seem to be opposed to the mere appearance of smoking, which is a political and moral issue--not a public health issue--and as such, oversteps the boundaries of the legislative process.

Thank you for your consideration.

Kind regards,

[Treece]

Originally Posted by MidnighToker

Spikey,

I just tried emailing all of them twice, and both times I got message failures back. Error message was "551: relaying denied (state 17)"

Hold off ... we're trying to figure out the problem!

[Tom09]

"551 relaying denied" Mail Block - Relay Denied (MBRD):
Indicates that the recipient's email server is blocking email from our email server. Perhaps because it looks like spam or recipients server doesn’t allow for list mailings, idk. Also note that the consensed list in Spikey’s post is corrupted. Workaround might be individual mails.

[Treece]

Originally Posted by Tom09

"551 relaying denied" Mail Block - Relay Denied (MBRD):
Indicates that the recipient's email server is blocking email from our email server. Perhaps because it looks like spam or recipients server doesn’t allow for list mailings, idk. Also note that the consensed list in Spikey’s post is corrupted. Workaround might be individual mails.

Thanks Tom. I tried individuals when I realized that my mass mailing had failed--no go.

I'm wondering if they're just getting bombarded w/emails because the gay marriage bill is up and it's a HUGE issue.

Will keep trying ... and if anybody figures this out, by all means let me know.

[Tom09]

Originally Posted by Treece

failed--no go.

Ihdk, but could be that they don’t allow for e-mails originating from outside their “contact” web pages, to prevent spam submissions.

May have to use the official contact formulas, to be found here:
http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/SelectMun.asp

[Treece]

Think it should have been @njleg.org.

Giving it another try!

[yvilla]

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