MSU students develop a product to help people quit vaping
The State News: Michigan State students who are struggling to quit vaping might be in luck.
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Michigan drops plans for permanent ban on flavored vaping, seeks new fix
The Detroit News: The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services this week abruptly pulled back rules that would have banned the sale of flavored nicotine products in Michigan.
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The Loophole That’s Fueling a Return to Teenage Vaping
New York Times: Sales are rising of flavored e-cigarettes using synthetic nicotine that evades regulatory oversight, a gap that lawmakers are now trying to close.
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Evidence grows for vaping's role in gum disease
ScienceDaily: Research confirms unique community of bacteria and immune responses among people who use e-cigarettes.
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More Evidence That Vaping E-Cigarettes Contributes to Gum Disease
SciTechDaily: Research confirms unique community of bacteria and immune responses among people who use e-cigarettes.
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Study finds vaping has long-term effect on the heart for adolescent males but not females
EurekAlert: New research published in Circulation gives insight into what happens to the cardiovascular system of adolescents when they vape
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Autopsy finds man most likely died as a result of vaping
ABC News: Queensland man Peter Hansen died of a severe lung injury which was probably caused by a decade of vaping.
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Research roundup: E-cigs aren't safe
VA Research Communications: As a physician with the VA San Diego Healthcare System, Dr. Laura E. Crotty Alexander has heard from more and more patients over recent years that they’re thinking of switching to vaping e-cigarettes as a safe alternative to traditional cigarettes. Not so fast, says the pulmonologist, who is also an associate professor at University of California San Diego. She calls it a “dangerous situation,” with so many people apparently unaware that e-cigarettes come with wide-ranging dangers of their own.
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Teenager addicted to vaping on life support ‘toxic’ e-cigarette chemical damages lungs
Independent: A US teenager addicted to vaping has vowed to never pick up the habit again after a “toxic chemical” in an e-cigarette left her hospitalised and needing life support.
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Durbin Announces Support for FDA Commissioner Nominee, But Urges Immediate Action on Vaping Epidemic
Senator Durbin: US Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois urges immediate action on the vaping epidemic.
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Supporters to mount broad campaign in favor of California’s ban on flavored tobacco products
The Press Democrat: Halting the sale of such tobacco products in California tops the political agenda of the American Lung Association, which is concerned especially about teens’ use of the products and the potential longterm damage to their health.
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E-cigarettes were less effective than gum and other nicotine replacement aids, study says
CNN: Nearly 60% of recent former smokers who were daily e-cigarette users had resumed smoking by 2019, a new study found.
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Synthetic nicotine: Unregulated and increasingly popular
Politico: To users, these vapes are identical. But because of an obscure loophole, they skirt the FDA’s regulatory umbrella.
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The Rise and Fall of Juul
Business Insider: Juul is at risk of being banned by the FDA and faces multi-million-dollar lawsuits for its role in fueling the youth vaping epidemic.
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‘Ready to go.’ Flavored-vape ban on Lamont’s agenda
CT Insider: Gov. Ned Lamont’s warm welcome last year to Phillip Morris, with the relocation of its headquarters from New York City to Stamford, drew quick rebuke from anti-tobacco activists who said the move would be a test of the governor’s support for a ban on flavored vaping products in Connecticut.
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US government fails when it comes to tobacco reduction, American Lung Association report says
CNN: The American Lung Association's "State of Tobacco Control" report calls for an end to manufacturing flavored tobacco.
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Vaping Might Worsen COVID-19 Symptoms
US News: If you vape and catch COVID-19, you may feel a whole lot worse than people who come down with the virus but don't use electronic cigarettes, researchers say.
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That Cloud of Smoke Is Not a Mirage
New York Times: Cigarettes, once shunned, have made a comeback with a younger crowd who knows better.
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Guess Who’s Secretly Backing This ‘Anti-Smoking’ Vape Group
The Daily Beast: The World Vapers’ Alliance has been promoting the health benefits of switching from cigarettes to vaping. Emails reveal the truth of who is behind the effort.
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Introducing ‘nicotinfluencers’, the tobacco industry’s loophole to attract younger audiences
Screenshot Media: [Nicotinfluencers are] a marketing tactic often used by brands to target an audience that is, in general, fairly young—making them harder to reach through traditional advertising channels.
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