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.
CALIFORNIA IN ACTION
KCAL News: PAVe Advocate Dianne Shumway shares her story and her disappointment in the FDA for their lack of action.
CityHealth: From San Francisco to Sacramento, California cities took action to ban flavored tobacco and end the e-cigarette epidemic. Their leadership started a movement that rippled through hundreds of California cities and counties, ultimately resulting in the voter-approved passage of Proposition 31 that ended the sale of flavored tobacco in the state.
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.
NEWS
The Stockton Record: At the June 20 Stockton City Council meeting, city leaders adopted an ordinance that will ban the sale of flavored tobacco products and regulate the growth of smoke and vape shops in the city.
The Sacramento Bee: Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, D-Sacramento joined other Black leaders on Thursday to host a “funeral” for menthol products, which they say have resulted in thousands of deaths in their communities.
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.
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.
Good Day LA: Parents Warn of Sale of Candy-Flavored Tobacco Products
WEBSITES
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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
This snapshot of U.S. e-cigarette regulations was prepared by the Public Health Law Center.
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