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
Texas Tribune: Caught off guard by the increase in teen vaping, schools are grasping every tool at hand, including expulsions and suspensions. In some districts, students can face harsh discipline and jail time for having a vape pen in their backpack.
KXVA-TV: Hendrick Cancer Center and the ATEMS High School Student Council have teamed up to create an educational program to leverage peer pressure for good to encourage youth to avoid electronic cigarettes and other tobacco-related products.
Newsweek: The leader of Texas A&M University System announced Tuesday that vaping and smoking e-cigarettes will be banned on "every square inch" of each campus throughout the state.
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.
El Paso Times: While the world is currently focused on the global public health crisis being caused by the coronavirus, just over a year ago we were facing a different lung concern: e-cigarette and Vaping Related Lung Injury. This disease, though very different from COVID-19, did show the lungs vulnerability to vaping devices.
WEBSITES
This time, try something different. We can help you become an expert in living tobacco-free. We’ve been doing this for 25 years, so believe us when we tell you we can help double your chances of quitting for good. Anyone can get help from our free Texas Quitline service and Web-based program.. The Texas Tobacco Quitline can help you quit all forms of tobacco, including e-cigarettes.
Learn more about vaping and how to talk with teens
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
This snapshot of U.S. e-cigarette regulations was prepared by the Public Health Law Center.
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