Time Magazine: To a remarkable degree, a single company is front and center in one of the biggest public-health crises facing the country: the sharp rise in vaping among teenagers and young adults.
Read MoreNew York Times: More than three-fourths of those sickened are male, health officials said, and half are under 25. Missouri reported the eighth death linked to vaping during this summer’s crisis.
Read MoreCNBC: Juul has not complied with a Congressional probe, a House panel wrote in a letter to the company Wednesday.
Read MoreNBC News: Doctors, major health groups and concerned parents reacted with shock and gratitude to the Trump administration's surprise announcement Wednesday that it plans to ban flavored electronic cigarettes.
Read MoreNew York Times: New York’s former mayor has committed $160 million to ban flavored e-cigarettes amid a series of efforts designed to increase oversight of the industry.
Read MoreNY Daily News: Legislation wafting around the City Council would prohibit the sale of fruity, saccharine e-cigarette flavors. It’s got merit.
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Federal health authorities are urging people to stop using electronic cigarettes and other vaping products while they investigate the deaths of three more people from a mysterious vaping illness that researchers say may have affected 450 people around the U.S.
Read MoreNew York Times: Indiana announced a third death linked to the illness on Friday, and Minnesota a fourth. State and federal health officials are working urgently to understand the causes.
Read MoreCommon Sense Media: Amid a Rising Addiction Epidemic Among Young People, Advocacy Group Will Push for Local, State, and Federal Legislation and Wage a National Public Education Campaign
Read MoreNew York Times: A surge of severe lung ailments has baffled doctors and public health experts.
Read MoreNew York Times: With Altria’s investment in Juul, a combination of the tobacco giants would dominate the international market for e-cigarettes.
Read MoreVice: The e-cigarette giant and the federal government aren't reacting quickly enough to signs vaping carries risks, critics charge.
Read MoreReuters: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday it had identified 193 potential cases of severe lung illness tied to vaping in 22 states as of Aug. 22, including one adult in Illinois who died after being hospitalized.
Read MoreNY Times: Sixteen states have now reported 153 cases of serious, vaping-related respiratory illnesses in the past two months, and many of the patients are teenagers or young adults.
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Kids used to duck into the school bathroom to sneak a drag on a cigarette. But with the electronic kind, they are becoming increasingly daring, often vaping right under their teachers’ noses.
Read MoreCDC: The U.S. Center for Disease Control is providing consultation to the departments of health in Wisconsin, Illinois, California, Indiana, and Minnesota about a cluster of pulmonary illnesses linked to e-cigarette product use, or “vaping,” primarily among adolescents and young adults.
Read MoreWashington Post: State and federal health officials are investigating almost 100 cases of mysterious lung illnesses linked to vaping and e-cigarette use in 14 states, many of them involving teens and young adults.
Read MoreFDA: The FDA has become aware that some people who use e-cigarettes have experienced seizures, with most reports involving youth or young adult users.
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