The New York Times: Meredith Berkman and Dorian Fuhrman, two of the co-founders of Parents Against Vaping, recently met with Mr. Zeller and some of his staff to discuss their concerns. They believe that waiting for survey data about disposables, from the next annual youth tobacco survey, will result in more youths becoming addicted to nicotine.
Read MorePatch.com: Gov. Phil Murphy has signed 153 bills into law, including one that makes New Jersey the first state in the nation to impose a permanent ban on flavored vape products.
Read MoreKaiser 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.
Read MoreTime: 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.
Read MoreTobacco21: By the time Juul’s co-creator stood before a tech audience in April 2016, ads for the e-cigarette aimed to distance the product from a toxic past: “Our company has its roots in Silicon Valley, not in fields of tobacco.”
Read MoreWKBW ABC Buffalo: On a satellite media tour PAVe Co Founder Meredith Berkman and President of American Academy of Pediatrics Dr. Sara Goza speak to reporters about the youth Vaping Crisis.
Read MoreWPHM 1380: PAVe co-founder Meredith Berkman spoke along with Dr. Sally Goza about the heightened risks associated with e-cigarette use.
Read MoreSenator 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.
Read MoreWashington 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.
Read MoreVOX: There’s a robust literature on what works — and what doesn’t — to help youth get off cigarettes. Krishnan-Sarin says for now, she and other tobacco and addiction experts are extrapolating from that research to help patients who want to quit vaping. But there’s a twist: The experience of quitting nicotine vaping may actually turn out to be quite different from stopping smoking. Quitting vaping may actually be harder.
Read MoreFDA: 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.
Read MoreCBS19 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.
Read MoreMedical News Today: A team at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, has uncovered another electronic cigarette health concern. This time, it relates to stroke risk.
Read MoreNJ.com: New Jersey could soon outlaw flavored e-cigarettes, as state lawmakers Monday gave final approval to a bill banning certain vaping products in the midst of a national health crisis.
Read MoreNorthJersey.com: Flavored vaping products could soon be outlawed in New Jersey after lawmakers voted Monday to prohibit their sales and cap the amount of nicotine in vaping liquids.
Read MoreAmerican 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.
Read MoreInsider NJ: Time is running out. NJ Lawmakers Must Act NOW to end the sale of ALL flavored tobacco products in New Jersey including flavored e-cigarettes, cigars & menthol cigarettes!
Read MoreABC 7 - WJLA: A ban on most flavored vaping products announced by the Trump administration Thursday has left few on either side of the contentious policy dispute satisfied as the president attempts to navigate a compromise between the demands of public health advocates and the needs of a growing American industry.
Read MorePasack Press: Dorian Fuhrman and Meredith Berkman, two of the co-founders of Parents Against Vaping e-cigarettes (PAVe), provided the information about vaping dangers and gave insight to help empower parents to discuss those dangers with their children to keep them from getting “fooled into JUUL.”
Read MoreNorth Jersey.com: Committees in the Senate and Assembly approved a group of bills that ban the sale of flavored e-cigarette products and menthol cigarettes, increase taxes on vaping products and set a framework for oversight of vaping retailers. The bills prompted hours of discussion as lawmakers expressed an urgent need to address a public health issue, while also hearing concerns that a ban could hurt businesses that sell to adults or could create a black market.
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