LA Times: Two months after key lawmakers sidetracked a proposed ban on the sale of flavored tobacco products in California, an influential state legislator has quietly introduced a less restrictive measure that some health groups say is designed to protect electronic-cigarette makers.
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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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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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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.
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.
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.
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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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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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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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.