Tobacco company CEOs face lawmakers' questions on their role in youth vaping epidemic
ABC News: Executives from some of the largest e-cigarette companies defended their business practices on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, amid concerns about their role in the rising rates of nicotine addiction among young people.
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Listen: How Vaping Regulations Are Playing Out In The States
Kaiser Health News: KHN Midwest correspondent Lauren Weber joined Wisconsin Public Radio’s Rob Ferrett on “Central Time” to discuss what’s happening on vaping in the states amid concerns about a vaping lung illness.
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Social Media Helped Juul Dominate the Vaping Market. Now, Teens Are Using It to Help Each Other Quit
Time: In a stark about-face, many of the same people who might have once posted about their #JuulLife are now using social media to urge their friends to quit vaping.
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Congress needs to act against vaping epidemic - San Francisco Chronicle
Senator Dianne Feinstein: San Francisco has already moved to ban e-cigarettes, and the state is also contemplating a flavor ban. But to curb youth vaping nationwide, these issues must be addressed by Congress.
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The FDA got it partially right on e-cigs. Here’s what else needs to be done.
Washington Post: The need for additional measures is urgent. Data from the 2019 National Youth Tobacco Survey shows that about 5 million young people in grades six to 12 had tried e-cigarettes in the past 30 days — an increase from about 3.6 million in 2018. And more of these teens are becoming regular users, with nearly 1 million vaping daily. That’s how addiction crises take root. Casual use turns into constant use, and before you know it, a new generation of kids is hooked on nicotine.
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Newly Signed Legislation Raises Federal Minimum Age of Sale of Tobacco Products to 21
FDA: On Dec. 20, 2019, the President signed legislation amending the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, and raising the federal minimum age of sale of tobacco products from 18 to 21 years. It is now illegal for a retailer to sell any tobacco product—including cigarettes, cigars and e-cigarettes—to anyone under 21.
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Senators Criticize Trump’s E-cig Policy
CBS19 News: More than two dozen members of the U.S. Senate, including Tim Kaine, are criticizing a new policy they say won't address certain flavored e-cigarettes or flavored e-liquids that are not in cartridges.
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Stroke: Smoking both traditional and e-cigarettes may raise risk
Medical News Today: A team at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, has uncovered another electronic cigarette health concern. This time, it relates to stroke risk.
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Invalidity of an Oft-Cited Estimate of the Relative Harms of Electronic Cigarettes
American Journal of Public Health: The “95% safer” estimate is a “factoid”: unreliable information repeated so often that it becomes accepted as fact. Public health practitioners, scientists, and physicians should expose the fragile status of the factoid emphatically by highlighting its unreliable provenance and its lack of validity today.
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E-cigarettes linked to lung problems, first long-term study on vaping finds
NBC News: The first study on the long-term health effects of electronic cigarettes finds that the devices are linked to an increased risk of chronic lung diseases, according to research published Monday in theAmerican Journal of Preventive Medicine.
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New York insurance companies now required to cover costs of quitting vaping
NY Post: New York will require all private and public health insurance companies to fully cover costs related to quitting vaping, the state Department of Financial Services said Thursday.
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The Next Vaping: Big Tobacco claims to have created a safer cigarette. Is unleashing it a big mistake?
The Atlantic: Branded “IQOS,” which is widely believed to be an acronym for “I Quit Original Smoking,” the device is the first in what’s expected to be a new class known as “heated tobacco” or “heat not burn” products. They’re not vaping or smoking, but another way of inhaling the addictive stimulant nicotine.
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Trump Is Giving In To The Vaping Industry On A Flavor Ban, Lawmakers Say
Buzzfeed News: A bipartisan letter to the White House is slamming President Trump for backing off a proposed ban on flavored e-cigarettes thought to be driving the teen vaping epidemic.
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Durbin Sends Bipartisan & Bicameral Letter To President Trump Urging For Final E-Cigarette Flavor Ban
Press Release: “I'm hoping President Trump cares more about children than he does about lobbying pressure from Big Tobacco and Big Vape companies,” Durbin said. “At stake is the health of more than five million kids who are now vaping in America. This epidemic demands action now, and the President must stick with his September promise to remove kid-friendly flavors—including mint and menthol—from the market immediately.”
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More than a dozen US school districts sue Juul and other vape companies
The Guardian: School districts in states including Missouri, Kansas, Arizona, New York and California have filed lawsuits against Juul and other vape companies, seeking to recoup financial losses incurred while attempting to manage the exploding number of students using e-cigarettes.
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Mom Whose Son Was Nearly Killed by Vaping Shames the FDA: 'Where the Hell Were You?'
People Magazine: Walker McKnight’s brief vaping habit may not have killed him, but the five months he spent in an Orlando, Fla. hospital, connected to a respirator as doctors fought to keep him alive, destroyed his left lung and both his kidneys.
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New York Becomes First Large City To Ban Sale Of Flavored E-Cigarettes
CBS New York: The NYC Council approved a ban on most flavored e-cigarettes amid growing concerns over the deadly vaping crisis. The vote came just days after the second vaping-related death in the city.
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Political opposites agree on teen vaping: Get rid of the flavors that lure kids
The Hill: We're sick of business models built around addicting kids - to traditional cigarettes in the past, for example, and now to nicotine-packed e-cigarettes. We are outraged that highly addictive e-cigarette products have been cynically or illegally targeted at teens, hiding the health risks behind flavors like fruit, mint and menthol.
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Vape juice can kill kids. A vaping law’s slow rollout left them at risk of nicotine poisoning.
USA Today: Federal regulators this year stepped up efforts to protect young children from a deadly vaping threat: accidents involving liquid nicotine in bottles with enticing candy colors and flavors.
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The youth vaping epidemic: Addressing the rise of e-cigarettes in schools
The Brookings Institution: Teen vaping has gained a significant amount of media attention since President Trump expressed concern about vaping’s public health effects in a September meeting with the FDA. While Trump had suggested a ban on flavored e-cigarettes, it seems that he has backed away from that idea due to political fallout among voters.
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