About VTA
Fighting for Science-Based Policies that Ensure The Continued Availability of Less Harmful Vaping Products
For nearly a decade, the Vapor Technology Association has been at the forefront of defending the American vapor industry and the rights of adult Americans to choose their preferred vaping alternatives to cigarettes. We engage directly with policy makers and the media to shape the future of vaping and nicotine policy in Washington DC and throughout the country.
The History of the VTA
Around 2010, vapor products emerged as a safer alternative to smoking and gained popularity among consumers. Regulators took notice and were quick to initiate sweeping regulations. Hoping to create a clear voice for thoughtful regulation in Washington, DC, the Vapor Technology Association (VTA) was founded by a group of concerned U.S. vapor companies in 2015.
Since then, VTA grew to become a leading national trade association defending the U.S. industry. VTA advocates for rational science-based regulation of the alternative nicotine products industry to ensure that we achieve the twin goals of preserving adult access to a wide variety of nicotine products while at the same time preventing youth access.
VTA has been on the forefront of every issue confronting the industry and we are committed to continue our efforts to create a rational, transparent and fair market place for our members to operate.
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Send InquiryVTA is run by a group of dedicated professionals with a unique blend of government affairs, public policy, legal and communications experience. We are committed to ensuring the vapor industry continues to thrive and innovate.
Tony Abboud
Executive Director, VTA
Tony is a government relations expert and litigator with 25 years experience in grassroots organizing, politics, state lobbying and the courtroom. Tony has spent the past decade defending vapor companies and companies in other heavily regulated industries against government over-reach.
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VTA’s Executive Director, Tony Abboud, was quoted in the @TobaccoReporter: “The VTA now looks forward to continuing its constructive engagement with Acting FDA Commissioner Kyle Diamantas and whoever is ultimately selected to permanently lead the agency moving forward,” Abboud
Gottlieb comments on the Glas authorization and the new enforcement discretion policy at the end. It remains to be seen how the FDA will apply their requirement that flavored vape PMTAs include "data necessary to evaluate whether the product is…
VTA’s Executive Director, Tony Abboud, was quoted in a piece from the @NYTimes’s @By_CJewett: “I think there’s clearly an openness to flavors,” said Tony Abboud, executive director of the Vapor Technology Association, which represents foreign and domestic e-cigarette makers,
Read VTA's statement on the departure of FDA Commissioner Marty Makary:
@VaporTechAssoc on Makary ouster at FDA: "While our engagement with the Commissioner was brief, we believed he was beginning to recognize that the current system requires substantial reform and that progress is needed to move more quickly."
ICYMI: VTA’s Executive Director, Tony Abboud, appeared on @RegWatchCanada. He talked about the need for immediate changes to the FDA’s approval process that allow for a fair and safe American marketplace. Watch Tony’s interview here:
RENEGADE REGULATOR | FDA Chief Blocks White House Push for Flavors | RegWatch @NannyFreeState @INNCOorg @GFNicotine @GrimmGreen @LegionVaping @VaporTechAssoc
VTA’s Executive Director, Tony Abboud, was featured on @RegulatorWatch last week. He talked about his hope that the FDA is working towards a clear, science-based standard that allows for a safe and fair marketplace for American companies and echoed his…
The New Republic and @RepDeSaulnier mocked RFK Jr. for saying vapes help ppl quit smoking. The largest evidence review to date agrees with RFK Jr. via @ReasonFdn
VTA is leading the fight to protect the flavored vaping industry. Join us today to take action!
VTA’s newsletter – VTA Insider – gives you an inside look at what we’re doing to defend the U.S. flavored vaping industry. Join us today to get it directly in your inbox:
"The public health benefits from reducing ECIG sales via flavor restrictions may be offset by the public health costs of consequent increases in cigarette consumption."
DUE TODAY: Manufacturers seeking to have their products included on Pennsylvania’s ENDS Directory must submit certification of compliance TODAY. Learn more here:
New! Using 2010-21 national data, @mikepesko & @rachelylfung find no meaningful evidence that e-cigs crowd out NRT sales, cessation prescriptions, quitline calls,or smoking quit attempts, suggesting e-cigs reach smokers not interested in quitting otherwise.https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/739173
ICYMI: Great piece from @gbentley1 on the recent release of the 2025 #NYTS data. Bentley: “The FDA’s selective relationship with its data isn’t just hypocritical; it affects policy at the federal and state levels. There are 28 million Americans who…
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So in USA in 2025, 3.8% of high school students used tobacco/nicotine products frequently (20+ days out of the last 30 days). Almost all of this was e-cigs (3.1%). Nicotine pouches very low at 0.6%. Cigarettes down to 0.3% !!…
Great piece from @gbentley1, who is right on target – the FDA can’t continue to hide behind the specter of a nonexistent youth vaping epidemic when its own data shows that the youth vaping rate continues to fall.
VTA Insider is your go-to source for the latest news impacting the vapor industry. Join us today to receive weekly insights on our efforts to save vaping at the state and federal levels, right in your inbox:
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