Livermore city council approves ban on flavored tobacco and vaping devices
KTVU News: The Livermore city council voted unanimously Monday night to ban all flavored tobacco products and vaping equipment like e-cigarettes. The ordinance requires that all tobacco sales must be at least 1,000 feet away from schools and youth organizations.
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Juul: One Nation Under Pod
Complex Media: Today, we explore the polarizing views on this issue in Juul: One Nation Under Pod, the latest installment of our Complex News Presents docuseries. The episode includes statistics, statements from Juul and tobacco researchers, as well as interviews with vaping advocates and teenage Juul users.
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Teens Say They Don't Vape, They JUUL, Making E-Cigarette Use Hard to Track
Bloomberg News: For the first time, public health officials will ask about JUUL by name in an annual youth tobacco survey. A language gap is making it harder for U.S. health officials to measure a teen-vaping epidemic. For some young people who use the popular vaping device sold by JUUL Labs Inc., “JUULing” is a verb in its own right
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In Washington, JUUL Vows to Curb Youth Vaping. Its Lobbying in States Runs Counter to That Pledge.
New York Times: For months, JUUL Labs has had a clear, unwavering message for officials in Washington: The e-cigarette giant is committed to doing all it can to keep its hugely popular vaping products away from teenagers.
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FDA: Dozens of seizures reported after vaping, mostly by young people
USA Today: At least 35 people reported seizures after using electronic cigarettes over the past decade, the Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday.
FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said the agency is investigating the incidents, which primarily involved youth and young adults and were discovered in its "adverse event" reporting system.
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As Kids Get Hooked on Vaping, Parents Are Desperate for Treatment That Doesn't Exist
Time: Jami Scheetz knew that her 15-year-old son, Devon, needed help. His grades were slipping and he had been caught vaping at school so many times that he was on the brink of being expelled. Last fall, at the start of his freshman year, Devon’s school even sent him to the hospital for drug testing after getting in trouble once again. In the emergency room, Devon finally admitted it: He was addicted. “He said to me, ‘Mom, I can’t quit on my own. I need help,'” Scheetz says.
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Two common e-cigarette flavors found to "destroy lung function"
The New York Post: Two chemicals found in two popular vaping flavors could destroy lung function, experts have warned.
The Harvard scientists’ findings have suggested that inhaling the popcorn- and caramel-flavored e-cigarette liquids could increase a vaper’s risk of respiratory diseases.
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The Dangerous Flavors of E-Cigarettes
New England Journal of Medicine: Nicotine is amazingly addictive. About 20 years ago, researchers in a nearby laboratory were studying the effects of cigarette smoke on lung function in mice. To expose a mouse to cigarette smoke, the mouse is placed in a plastic tube, head out. The tube is positioned in a stream of smoke, which the mouse then breathes.
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When your child vapes, what's a parent to do?
CNN: When Sonya Kennedy learned that her 12-year-old son, Ryder, had tried vaping, she was "mortified."
"He honestly didn't think that there was anything wrong," Kennedy said. "He told me that almost all the grade-sevens were doing it."
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JUUL’s Convenient Smoke Screen
The New York Times: JUUL Labs, the company behind the insanely popular vaping device, has a message for the nation’s estimated 37.8 million adult smokers: It really, really, really cares about them. And it wants them (and onlythem — got that, teens?) to try vaping instead.
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Teen Vaping Has Created Addicts With Few Treatment Options
The Wall Street Journal: Luka Kinard started vaping shortly after he entered high school in 2017. Many other students were using a kind of e-cigarette called a JUUL—and he thought he would give it a try.
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The Price of Cool: A Teenager, a JUUL and Nicotine Addiction
The New York Times: E-cigarettes may help tobacco smokers quit. But the alluring devices can swiftly induce a nicotine habit in teenagers who never smoked. This is the tale of one person’s struggle.
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F.D.A. Seeks Restrictions on Teens’ Access to Flavored E-Cigarettes and a Ban on Menthol Cigarettes
The New York Times: Warning that teenage use of electronic cigarettes has reached “an epidemic proportion,” the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday gave JUUL Labs and four other makers of popular vaping devices 60 days to prove they can keep them away from minors.
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WSJ: Youth Use of E-Cigarettes Jumped 78%, Government Study Shows
The Wall Street Journal: Warning that teenage use of electronic cigarettes has reached “an epidemic proportion,” the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday gave JUUL Labs and four other makers of popular vaping devices 60 days to prove they can keep them away from minors.
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How JUUL's plan to teach students about vaping went up in smoke
CNN: The leading maker of e-cigarettes, JUUL Labs, attempted to roll out an anti-vaping curriculum in schools earlier this year, offering school districts thousands of dollars and new technologies to implement it.
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United States Senate Letter to F.D.A.
U.S. Senate: Today, more than two million middle and high-schools are using e-cigarettes, making them the most popular form of tobacco product among youth.
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F.D.A. Targets Vaping, Alarmed by Teenage Use
The New York Times: The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday declared that teenage use of electronic cigarettes has reached “an epidemic proportion,” and it put makers of the most popular devices on notice that they have just 60 days to prove they can keep their devices away from minors.
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Inside JUUL Labs — how the vaping giant hooked its users and became a $15 billion company
CNBC: JUUL looks like a sleek USB flash drive, its flavor pods are packed with nicotine and it is the latest trend in e-cigarettes. In the past year, San Francisco-based JUUL Labs has rapidly overtaken the U.S. e-cigarette market.
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Did JUUL Lure Teenagers and Get ‘Customers for Life’?
The New York Times: The e-cigarette company says it never sought teenage users, but the F.D.A. is investigating whether JUUL intentionally marketed its devices to youth.
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Teens Hooked by Vaping: FDA Weighing a Ban on Flavored e-Cigarette Liquids
USA Today: Teen vaping is at the tipping point before possible epidemic levels, federal officials and public health advocates agree, but they're feuding over how fast and far to go to rein in the booming electronic cigarette industry.
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