Los Angeles will clamp down on selling flavored tobacco products
L.A. Times: Los Angeles will ban many businesses from selling tobacco products that come in sweet, spicy and minty flavors under new restrictions backed Wednesday by the City Council.
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Use Patterns, Flavors, Brands, and Ingredients of Nonnicotine e-Cigarettes Among Adolescents, Young Adults, and Adults in the United States
JN: Several health and safety concerns that apply to nicotine e-cigarettes may translate to nonnicotine e-cigarettes.
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Study Claims Vapes Have Higher Health Costs Than Cigarettes
Tobacco Reporter: The use of electronic cigarettes costs the United States $15 billion annually in healthcare expenditures—more than $2,000 per person a year
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Potentially dangerous synthetic cooling agents are used at high levels in E-cigarettes and refillable vaping liquids
AAAS: High levels of potentially dangerous coolants like menthol in vaping products.
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Study reveals most effective anti-vaping messages for teens
UNC Lineberger: Effective anti-vaping advertisements geared to teens have the greatest impact when they emphasize the adverse consequences and harms of vaping e-cigarettes, use negative imagery, and avoid memes, hashtags and other “teen-centric” communication styles, according to a first-of-its-kind study by researchers at UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center.
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FDA proposes ban on menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars
CNN Health: The US Food and Drug Administration proposed on Thursday a rule to ban menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars.
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‘A cry for help’: CDC warns of a steep decline in teen mental health
Washington Post: More than 4 in 10 told the health agency they felt ‘persistently sad or hopeless.’
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L.A. County prevails over R.J. Reynolds with its ban on flavored tobacco – 9th Circ
Reuters: Los Angeles County can ban all sales of flavored tobacco products, including vape juice and menthol cigarettes, a divided federal appeals court held Friday in a loss for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco and two sister companies.
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Highlighting the dangers of unregulated non-nicotine flavored e-cigarettes
StanfordTPT: New methods of teen e-cigarette use.
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Why vaping can mean more — not less — stress
Mashable: If you're looking for an effective stress reliever, vaping nicotine ain't it.
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Dispose of e-cigarettes and vapes at hazardous waste facility, says hazmat officials
NBC 11 News: Hazmat officials say the batteries in vape pens and e-cigarettes are hazardous to the environment, and batteries can cause fires.
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RJ Reynolds Loses Challenge to LA County Flavored Tobacco Ban
KFI AM 640: A split panel of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the federal Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act allows the county's ban on certain tobacco products, striking down a challenge by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. and other companies.
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Nicotine Use and Stress
Truth Initiative: Many tobacco users falsely believe tobacco products can relieve stress or anxiety. The idea that tobacco products curb the symptoms of nicotine withdrawal is often misinterpreted as a beneficial effect on mental health, according to research on the effects of quitting smoking on mental health.
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Diabetes warning over e-cigarettes: Vaping devices could raise risk of high blood sugar, scientists say
Daily Mail: E-cigarettes could raise the risk of high blood sugar levels, putting users on the brink of diabetes, scientists warn.
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Vaping May Be Worse Than Smoking for Your Nose and Throat
Health Day: E-cigarette and hookah water pipe users may be at greater risk than tobacco cigarette smokers for cancers of the nose, sinuses and throat, according to a new study.
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Evidence links e-cigarette use with increased odds of prediabetes
Mirage: An analysis of data from a large, nationally representative survey of the US population shows that e-cigarette use is associated with increased odds of prediabetes.
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State reports rise in cross-border vape smuggling
The Daily News: Massachusetts banned the sale of flavored and menthol cigarettes and vaping products more than two years ago, but those products are still getting into the state through the underground market.
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Michigan appeals court sides with vape shop, against flavored vaping ban
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.
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Proposed federal tobacco tax may cost more than it earns
The 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.
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Menthol ban would save 650,000 lives in the next 40 years
University 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.
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