Michigan Health Watch: A three-judge panel of the Michigan Court of Appeals upheld a Court of Claims preliminary injunction against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s September public emergency that banned flavored vaping products — products that Whitmer and the state’s health department argued lured young people into unhealthy, addictive habits.
Read MoreThe Daily Mining Gazette: The U.S. Congress on April 22, 2021 introduced a proposal to to establish the first federal e-cigarette tax in history, while at the same time, raising the tobacco tax.
Read MoreUniversity of Michigan News: Banning menthol flavors in cigarettes could reduce smoking by 15% by having smokers giving up tobacco products altogether or switching to e-cigarettes and other nicotine vaping products—avoiding 16,250 tobacco-related deaths per year by 2060, according to a new University of Michigan study.
Read MoreThe State News: Michigan State students who are struggling to quit vaping might be in luck.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreNew 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.
Read MoreScienceDaily: Research confirms unique community of bacteria and immune responses among people who use e-cigarettes.
Read MoreSciTechDaily: Research confirms unique community of bacteria and immune responses among people who use e-cigarettes.
Read MoreEurekAlert: New research published in Circulation gives insight into what happens to the cardiovascular system of adolescents when they vape
Read MoreABC News: Queensland man Peter Hansen died of a severe lung injury which was probably caused by a decade of vaping.
Read MoreVA 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.
Read MoreIndependent: 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.
Read MoreSenator Durbin: US Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois urges immediate action on the vaping epidemic.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreCNN: Nearly 60% of recent former smokers who were daily e-cigarette users had resumed smoking by 2019, a new study found.
Read MorePolitico: To users, these vapes are identical. But because of an obscure loophole, they skirt the FDA’s regulatory umbrella.
Read MoreBusiness 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.
Read MoreCT 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.
Read MoreCNN: The American Lung Association's "State of Tobacco Control" report calls for an end to manufacturing flavored tobacco.
Read MoreUS 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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