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.
TheBostonGlobe: Massachusetts’ highest court issued a ruling Friday upholding a groundbreaking bylaw in Brookline that bans anyone born in the 21st century from buying tobacco in town, likely opening the door to other communities to pursue similar rules.
Mass.gov: Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell today joined attorneys general from across the country to announce a $462 million multistate settlement, including $41 million for Massachusetts, with JUUL Labs Inc. (JUUL) for their role in contributing to the youth vaping epidemic nationwide.
Lohud: In proposing to ban the sale of menthol cigarettes and other flavored tobacco products in New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul aims to curtail the tobacco industry’s most pernicious tactic for targeting and addicting kids, Black people and other 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.
The Daily News: Massachusetts banned the sale of flavored and menthol cigarettes and vaping products more than two years ago, but those products are still getting into the state through the underground market.
Government Technology: Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Medical School are working on an app for teens that would engage them with texts from peers who quit using e-cigarettes and reward them with points, similar to a game.
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.
Guidelines for Treating Adolescent Patients Age 14 & Older from Boston Children’s Hospital
This module provides an understanding of the inner workings of e-cigarettes, the content of the aerosols they produce, and thirdhand smoke. It's broken down into 5 units, each of which explore e-cigarettes in-depth.
Many youth are now using and becoming addicted to electronic vape products, which often contain nicotine and other chemicals that harm the developing adolescent brain. These chemicals are linked to other adverse health conditions, including serious lung injuries.
