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If you are a vaper and you aren’t already listening to Click, Bang!, I’d certainly suggest it. It’s a podcast focused primarily on vaper culture and community goings on. The host of the show, one Russell Wishtart, is taking an impressive role in electronic cigarette advocacy that few are willing to take on. Wishtart–with the support of a New York City-based advocacy for smoker’s rights–is suing the city over its ban on public vaping.

I’m not about to pretend to understand the inner workings of the suit — you can listen to the latest episode of Click, Bang! for that. But it sounds like the New York City Council members overstepped their authority by banning the use of electronic cigarettes in all places where smoking too is banned. They even went against public statements differentiating electronic and tobacco cigarettes to do it. Now, there’s an ordinance in place that contradicts previous definitions of what constitutes an illegal act of smoking.

Wishtarts suit is being supported by NYC CLASH (short for Citizens Lobbying Against Smoker Harassment). Till now, CLASH was largely an advocacy group focused on keeping anti-smoking laws from getting out of hand and needlessly discriminating against smokers under the guise of protecting public health. What’s most surprising about this group (and their leader Audrey Silk) is that they’ve won before. They fought smoking bans placed on New York state parks on the basis that the state parks agency needed to approval from lawmakers for the ban — approval which they didn’t have.

But now, they’re taking vapers under their protection because, as Silk puts it, a lot of our members are vapers now. In addition, the group is not as entirely focused on smoker issues as it is on consumer freedom and preventing nanny-state legislation against groups like smokers. Already, the consumer vapers group CASAA has donated to the cause and more are likely to join.

More information and how to donate to the cause can be found right here.