REPORT VIOLATIONS
Help us prevent kids from using e-cigarette and tobacco products. Your report may help identify possible violations!
This includes reporting gas stations, convenient stores and smoke shops etc. who sell these products to minors, including counterfeit JUUL pods, sales of open packages (loose pods), free giveaways and sales in non-authorized venues.
NEWS
WORLD: Stephanie Siete is a member of Parents Against Vaping E-cigarettes and the public information officer at Community Bridges Inc., an addiction treatment center in Mesa, Ariz. Siete said parents, youth, and even law enforcement officers tend to be under-informed about the health risks of vaping.
KGUN 9: E-cigarettes were introduced to the U.S. market in 2007 and have steadily gained popularity. A recent health report from Help Advisor and the Center for Disease Control (CDC) shows the state of Arizona ranks second for the sharpest rise in vaping in teens and young adults.
ABC15: A new ordinance, if approved, would ban businesses from selling flavored vape products in Tempe city limits.
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.
White Mountain Independent: For their Samsung Solve for Tomorrow project, the team designed and then constructed a prototype to test low-cost do-it-yourself vaping detectors. The vaping detectors are designed specifically to be installed in common spaces throughout schools.
US News & World Report: Arizona’s attorney general has obtained a $22.5 million judgment against a New Jersey-based vaping company along with a court order permanently barring the company from selling its products in the state.
91.5 KJZZ: In Phoenix, tobacco retailers, as in other cities, are ubiquitous. In Phoenix, there are 16 times as many tobacco retailers as McDonald's restaurants.
Phoenix Business Journal: The tobacco industry moved into new territory and created flavored tobacco and served it up in the form of e-cigarettes, or vaping products. Mango, crème brulee, bubble gum – there are more than 15,000 different flavors of e-cigarettes on the market attracting and hooking kids on nicotine.
Mylocalnews.us: Vaping is not a safe alternative to smoking cigarettes nor marijuana. As much research still needs to be done, it would be premature to discuss the why, but the facts are, that as of March, more than 2,800 lung illnesses related to vaping have occurred in the U.S., with 68 reported deaths.
WEBSITES
My Life, My Quit™ is the free and confidential way to quit smoking or vaping. Text "Start My Quit" to 36072 or click to chat with a Coach. We are here for you every step of the way. It's YOUR LIFE and we're here to help you live it YOUR WAY.
Truth Initiatives’s This is Quitting Program
CATCH My Breath’s peer-led teaching approach empowers students with the knowledge and skills needed to make informed decisions about e-cigarettes and resist social pressures to vape.
N-O-T: Not On Tobacco—Proven Teen Smoking and Vaping Cessation Program
Stop Big Tobacco from targeting Phoenix kids! There’s a public health emergency unfolding right before our eyes — and the cause couldn’t be clearer.
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