Be Grateful

Today all that is needed is to be grateful for the fights that we win. Alabama defeated the e-liquid tax today. You can read all about it on facebook: (Click Here)

If you know a council member, committee member, representative, senator, governor, etc. that has supported anti-vaping laws, take a minute to thank them. If you know a vaping advocate that is working their tale off fight for your rights, thank them.

Momma Vape wants to thank YOU for your efforts to be a daily advocate.
Until tomorrow.......
~ Momma Vape

Profile Picture Day

The folks at Breath Easier Alliance of Alabama (click here for their facebook page) are asking vapers around the world to show your support for them and anyone else fighting sin taxes on vape products by changing your profile picture on facebook, twitter, instagram, google, and any other social media sites you participate in. Feel free to add a #alleg to the comments on your picture. See the picture below for the picture they are requesting we all use. It doesn't matter where you live, everyone is a member of the vaping community, and Momma Vape hopes you all are able to show support for one another.

My friend Bennie, from ECig Lounge in Waite Park, MN calls all of us vaping advocate Ninjas. It makes me very proud to stand up with all of you for our rights and the rights of all smokers who want to quit. Ninja Powers Unite!

~ Momma Vape

Alabama Tweet Fest!

Our Vaping Brothers & Sisters in Alabama are facing a potential nasty tax on their e-cig products during this week's special session. Let's give them a hand and tweet a special message to their Representatives, Senators, and Governor. Please keep it civil, factual, & professional! Also, please include #alleg in your tweets! Find me on twitter @imaracingmom (click here) . Feel free to retweet my tweets or come up with your own. If you have characters left in your tweet, please add @GovernorBentley.

If you live in Alabama, they are having a rally at the capitol on Aug. 4th. (Click here for facebook rally page). If you can't make it to the rally, be sure you are e-mailing and calling your representatives and senators!!!

You can also find more information at the Breath Easier Alliance of Alabama (Click Here) facebook page

Good Luck Alabama, we are all standing with you!!!!
~Momma Vape

Lend Me An Ear

Some of you are becoming convinced you really DO have time to advocate daily. This all started with a bet, that we can find time to advocate almost every day. We defined Advocacy as doing an activity advocating for vaping, or raising awareness about vaping, or educating ourselves / others about vaping.

Are some of you still finding it a struggle to participate in a daily activity? Problem solved with today's project. Today, you can multi-task. All you have to do is LISTEN! Yep, hop on that exercise bike and listen, fix supper and listen, cuddle a baby and listen, open your mail and listen, or dust the living room and listen. Easy Peasy Momma Vape likes to say!!!!

There are many vaping podcasts our there. Many of them are live shows which are then put online to listen to at anytime. So if you are too busy to DO something, then take a few minutes to listen while  you go about your day. You'll learn things, you'll hear things that make you go "hmmmm", you'll ponder things, and you will still be accomplishing our (almost) daily goal.

I'll give you 2 shows to start with, I'm sure we'll add to our list in a future blog.
Vape Politics (click here)
Attainable Advocacy (click here)

If you end up with an extra minute, Momma Vape would love some "LIKES" on our facebook page The Daily Advocate (click here)

Sending you all a Momma Vape Hug!
~ Momma Vape

Momma Needs a No Juice Jar

Today is July 31st. It's really one of those "once in a blue moon" days! The second full moon of the month. Our 13th day of trying to Advocate Daily.

Momma Vape has a confession for you all. I have the worst habit of calling my e-liquid "juice". Do you share this habit with me? I'm making a vow beginning to day to stop calling it "juice" and start calling it e-liquid, or liquid. We fight the constant battle of those who oppose what we do (help people quit smoking and save lives) saying we are marketing to kids. Saying our liquid is poison to kids. I started thinking "Juice" is not a good word for our liquid. It sounds like something someone should drink. It sounds like something that would appeal to kids. You and I both know that influencing kids to vape is NOT what we are trying to do, it's not what the manufacturers of the products we use are trying to do, but it is what some twist and lie about and accuse us of.

Momma Vape is going to Boss Vape's shop in a few hours. I'm going to make myself a "no juice" jar. I spend a lot of hours hanging out at my son's vape shop. I want everyone who comes into the shop to help me break my "juice" habit. Every time you hear me call E-Liquid "juice" I want you to bust me. Each time I am busted, I will put a quarter in the No Juice Jar. That money will be donated to a vaping advocacy organization. I invite all customers who come into the store to also break the "juice" habit and throw in a quarter if they get busted.

Anyone who catches me calling e-liquid "juice" after today in this blog or on facebook, twitter, etc. is welcome to bust me and another quarter will go in the no juice jar.

I invite ALL of you to create your own no juice jar. Let's all refer to the products we use in adult terms, not something somebody can use against us, and definitely not a term a child could misinterpret.

And there you go, another project crossed off the list!
~ Momma Vape

FDA and HR2058

Quick project today, Please complete the CTA (Call to Action) put out by those hard working folks at CASAA Support HR2058 (click here). Time to project small businesses all across the USA and your right to vape, and the right of millions of smokers to try vaping as a tool to help them win the battle to quit smoking!!!!!!

 We can't win if we don't try. It is time to turn our attention to the FDA.

~ Momma Vape

Learn a Little, Share a Lot

Sometimes I find myself tongue tied when I have to speak or write a letter or make a phone call. I listen to misinformation about vaping being passed around and my mind goes blank. I think I need to make myself a little cheat sheet of counter points, the truth, so I have it handy when I need to refer to it. I've been working on that project for a couple of days, and then I ran across this blog post by Aspire "17 Untrue E-cigarette Myths BUSTED" (click here) and it covered some of the points I was trying to cement in my head for future reference. Go ahead, give it a read, share the link with others. We could all use a little more truth in our lives!

Loving all of us discovering it is easy to be an advocate!
~ Momma Vape