Lawmakers blast Juul over the company’s role in teen vaping ‘epidemic’
CNBC: Meredith, Caleb, and Philip testified about Juul’s advertising and teens’ addiction to the products.
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House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee Hearing on E-Cigarettes
C-SPAN: Members of the PAVe Community testify about JUUL before the US Congress on July 24, 2019. Watch testimony from Meredith, Dorian, Caleb, and Phillip.
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PAVe Team in CNBC’S Documentary "Vaporized" on July 19 at 7 pm
CNBC: Carl Quintanilla investigates the rapidly growing and controversial e-cigarette industry, a market expected to hit $9 billion by the end of 2019.
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CEO of Juul apologizes to parents for teen vaping epidemic.
Good Morning America - Cover Story featuring Meredith Berkman of PAVe
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Vaping is hurting teenage athletes, dashing their future in sports.
NBC News - Cade Beauparlant and his mom, PAVe’s MA advocate Kristin, speak out about Cade’s battle against JUUL dependence/nicotine addiction.
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High Point 16-year-old turns JUUL addiction into anti-use advocacy
WGHP Fox 8 - Luka Kinard, son of PAVe’s Kelly Kinard, is featured in this story on WGHP Fox 8. "Addiction to JUULing, it was right away,” Luka said.
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San Francisco Bans Sale of Juul and Other E-Cigarettes
PAVe's Christine Chessen quoted in the New York Times: “There are so many young people, including one of my own, who are being affected by this,” she said of e-cigarettes. “They are having a very hard time quitting.
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Juul: One Nation Under Pod
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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19 groups urge Albany County to pass flavored tobacco, e-cig ban
Times Union - More than a dozen public health and children's advocacy groups have signed a memo urging the Albany County Legislature to pass a proposed ban on flavored tobacco and e-cigarette products.
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In battle against vaping, AG sues national retailer, alleging it targets underage consumers
The Boston Globe: In her latest battle against the e-cigarette and vaping industry, Attorney General Maura Healey is suing a national retailer for allegedly violating Massachusetts law that regulates the sale and advertisement of tobacco, saying the company targeted underage people for sales of its nicotine products.
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Vaping: The Next Epidemic
Podcast: Meredith Berkman, the co-founder of Parents Against Vaping E-cigarettes, joins us today to expose the truth about the real harm that E-cigarettes are causing, in particular, the brand Juul.
She talks about the chemistry of the new nicotine compounds, the very shrewd and insidious marketing to kids, and what her foundation is doing to get the production halted on flavored cartridges.
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Teens Say They Don't Vape, They JUUL, Making E-Cigarette Use Hard to Track
The San Francisco Chronicle: 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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Opinion - How Big Tobacco Got a New Generation Hooked
The New York Times: They’re doing it again, but in a new, slick, high-tech guise that is harder to combat. And ad agencies, which had mostly left Big Tobacco’s side, are aiding the effort, lured back in by increasing fees for the work and decreasing fears the public will judge them for it.
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Study: E-cigarette maker JUUL triggers nicotine 'arms race'
CNN: The use of e-cigarettes has become controversial due to a lack of evidence on their efficacy as anti-smoking aids and warnings about possible long-term health effects.
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When your child vapes, what's a parent to do?
CNN: When Sonya Kennedy learned that her 12-year-old son, Ryder, had tried vaping, she was mortified. "He honestly didn't think that there was anything wrong," Kennedy said. "He told me that almost all the grade-sevens were doing it."
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Vaping has created teen nicotine addicts with few treatment options
CBS News: The FDA is holding a hearing Friday morning to address the alarming spike inteen vaping and how to help those who want to kick the habit. According to the National Youth Tobacco Survey, more than 20 percent of high school students admitted to using an electronic cigarette within the last 30 days – up more than 77 percent since 2017.
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Cuomo budget will include plan to ban flavored e-cig liquids
The New York Post: Gov. Cuomo is moving to ban flavored e-cigarettes that are widely viewed as targeting youths. His budget plan to be unveiled Tuesday will include a provision that gives the state Health Department authority to pull the plug on flavored e-cig liquid.
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Keep Children Away From E-Cigarettes Shows
The New York Times: To the Editor: The latest numbers are staggering: More than 3.6 million adolescents are using flavored nicotine-delivery systems like JUUL, with a 78 percent increase for high school students and 48 percent among middle school students since last year alone.
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Youth Use of E-Cigarettes Jumped 78%, Government Study Shows
The Wall Street Journal: Vaping helped drive the use of tobacco products up 38% overall among high-school students and by 29% among middle school students between 2017 and 2018, reversing declines reported over the past several years...
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