When your child vapes, what's a parent to do?
CNN: When Sonya Kennedy learned that her 12-year-old son, Ryder, had tried vaping, she was "mortified."
"He honestly didn't think that there was anything wrong," Kennedy said. "He told me that almost all the grade-sevens were doing it."
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JUUL’s Convenient Smoke Screen
The New York Times: JUUL Labs, the company behind the insanely popular vaping device, has a message for the nation’s estimated 37.8 million adult smokers: It really, really, really cares about them. And it wants them (and onlythem — got that, teens?) to try vaping instead.
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Teen Vaping Has Created Addicts With Few Treatment Options
The Wall Street Journal: Luka Kinard started vaping shortly after he entered high school in 2017. Many other students were using a kind of e-cigarette called a JUUL—and he thought he would give it a try.
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The Price of Cool: A Teenager, a JUUL and Nicotine Addiction
The New York Times: E-cigarettes may help tobacco smokers quit. But the alluring devices can swiftly induce a nicotine habit in teenagers who never smoked. This is the tale of one person’s struggle.
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F.D.A. Seeks Restrictions on Teens’ Access to Flavored E-Cigarettes and a Ban on Menthol Cigarettes
The New York Times: Warning that teenage use of electronic cigarettes has reached “an epidemic proportion,” the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday gave JUUL Labs and four other makers of popular vaping devices 60 days to prove they can keep them away from minors.
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WSJ: Youth Use of E-Cigarettes Jumped 78%, Government Study Shows
The Wall Street Journal: Warning that teenage use of electronic cigarettes has reached “an epidemic proportion,” the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday gave JUUL Labs and four other makers of popular vaping devices 60 days to prove they can keep them away from minors.
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How JUUL's plan to teach students about vaping went up in smoke
CNN: The leading maker of e-cigarettes, JUUL Labs, attempted to roll out an anti-vaping curriculum in schools earlier this year, offering school districts thousands of dollars and new technologies to implement it.
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United States Senate Letter to F.D.A.
U.S. Senate: Today, more than two million middle and high-schools are using e-cigarettes, making them the most popular form of tobacco product among youth.
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F.D.A. Targets Vaping, Alarmed by Teenage Use
The New York Times: The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday declared that teenage use of electronic cigarettes has reached “an epidemic proportion,” and it put makers of the most popular devices on notice that they have just 60 days to prove they can keep their devices away from minors.
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Inside JUUL Labs — how the vaping giant hooked its users and became a $15 billion company
CNBC: JUUL looks like a sleek USB flash drive, its flavor pods are packed with nicotine and it is the latest trend in e-cigarettes. In the past year, San Francisco-based JUUL Labs has rapidly overtaken the U.S. e-cigarette market.
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Did JUUL Lure Teenagers and Get ‘Customers for Life’?
The New York Times: The e-cigarette company says it never sought teenage users, but the F.D.A. is investigating whether JUUL intentionally marketed its devices to youth.
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Teens Hooked by Vaping: FDA Weighing a Ban on Flavored e-Cigarette Liquids
USA Today: Teen vaping is at the tipping point before possible epidemic levels, federal officials and public health advocates agree, but they're feuding over how fast and far to go to rein in the booming electronic cigarette industry.
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JUUL To Launch A Bluetooth-locked Vape To Detect Underage Smokers In International Markets
Newsweek: Vape titan JUUL said the company will launch a Bluetooth-linked vape in some Western European countries and Israel to bar student smokers. The redesigned JUUL, initially designed to track former smokers’ nicotine intake, could verify a user’s age to prevent minors.
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JUUL Lawsuits Could Change e-Cigarette Marketing
Consumer Safety: Many of us grew up hearing that smoking cigarettes is bad for your health. They cause 80% to 90% of lung cancer cases, raise your blood pressure and increase your chances for developing heart disease.
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Users Sue JUUL For Addicting Them to Nicotine
WIRED Magazine: JUUL LABS, THE San Francisco-based e-cigarette company, is under pressure from parents, schools, public health advocates, lawmakers, and the Food and Drug Administration for its popularity with younger users, who have gravitated to JUUL’s discrete rechargeable vaping device.
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The Promise of Vaping and the Rise of JUUL
The New Yorker: If I get addicted to vaping,I thought, in March,I will always remember this Texas strip mall.I was walking out of a store called Smoke-N-Chill Novelties, in Southwest Austin, holding a receipt for $62.95 and two crisp, white shrink-wrapped boxes.
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