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.
OHIO IN ACTION
Cincinnati, Ohio: PAVe advocate Courthney Calvin in action! She is the Public Health Educator/Tobacco Free Living Coordinator at the Cincinnati Health Department.
The Columbus Dispatch: As a mom and a pharmacist, I am aware of the dangers of nicotine on young bodies and minds - nicotine that will become a scourge on them and our society over a lifetime.
DAYTON, Ohio (WKEF): Interview with PAVe advocate, Bruce Barcelo.
NEWS
NBS News 4: The percentage of high school students who vape in Ohio is double the national average, recently published data shows.
NBC4: The Ohio Senate voted to override Gov. Mike DeWine’s veto on a provision prohibiting local governments from enacting regulations on the sale of tobacco — including by banning flavored tobacco products. The policy, which will go into effect in three months, means that newly-enacted flavored tobacco bans in Columbus, Worthington and other central Ohio cities cannot be enforced.
The Miami Student: Did you know there are 17 vape and smoke shops in Oxford? Because I sure did not. When I first heard this number, I thought it was a joke. Unfortunately, it’s true that Oxford houses more vape shops than it does cafes.
Cleveland.com: A majority of American adults approve of banning the sale of all tobacco products, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The Columbus Dispatch: As a mom and a pharmacist, I am aware of the dangers of nicotine on young bodies and minds - nicotine that will become a scourge on them and our society over a lifetime.
Yahoo! News: A Clark County student won second place in an anti-vaping video contest and received a $5,000 scholarship.
WEBSITES
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Truth Initiatives’s This is Quitting Program
N-O-T: Not On Tobacco—Proven Teen Smoking and Vaping Cessation Program
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