Fox5: Federal health officials on Thursday ordered Juul to pull its electronic cigarettes from the U.S. market. It's the latest blow to the company widely blamed for sparking a national surge in teen vaping.
NYT: The proposal would put the United States at the forefront of global antismoking efforts by taking an aggressive stance at significantly lowering nicotine levels. Only one other nation, New Zealand, has advanced such a plan. The headwinds, though, are fierce.
NPR: The Food and Drug Administration has issued a marketing denial order to Juul, telling the company to remove its e-cigarettes from the U.S. marketplace — a decision that promises to shake up the vaping market.
New York Times: The agency ruled against the company’s application to stay on the market, a decisive blow to a once-popular vaping brand that appealed to teenagers.
FDA.gov: Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued marketing denial orders (MDOs) to JUUL Labs Inc. for all of their products currently marketed in the United States. As a result, the company must stop selling and distributing these products.
Los Angeles: PAVe advocate, Dianne Moore, and her son provide testimony at the L.A. press conference on June 1, 2022 before the council meeting that resulted in an unanimous vote to eliminate the sales of flavored e-cigarettes, including menthol e-cigarettes, and flavored cigars.
INSIDER - One tobacco giant — Reynolds American — is actively spreading millions of dollars to hundreds of state-level political candidates and political action committees, according to an internal corporate governance document reviewed by Insider.
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.
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
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.
LA Times: Using the specter of Floyd’s tragic death and the social justice protests it inspired, Harris suggested that prohibiting menthol cigarettes would increase policing in Black communities and create a new layer of racism in America.
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.
