Cuomo budget will include plan to ban flavored e-cig liquids
The New York Post: Gov. Cuomo is moving to ban flavored e-cigarettes that are widely viewed as targeting youths. His budget plan to be unveiled Tuesday will include a provision that gives the state Health Department authority to pull the plug on flavored e-cig liquid.
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Keep Children Away From E-Cigarettes Shows
The New York Times: To the Editor: The latest numbers are staggering: More than 3.6 million adolescents are using flavored nicotine-delivery systems like JUUL, with a 78 percent increase for high school students and 48 percent among middle school students since last year alone.
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Youth Use of E-Cigarettes Jumped 78%, Government Study Shows
The Wall Street Journal: Vaping helped drive the use of tobacco products up 38% overall among high-school students and by 29% among middle school students between 2017 and 2018, reversing declines reported over the past several years...
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JUUL Readies for Regulatory Showdown (Podcast)
Bloomberg News: The e-cigarette maker JUUL has seen stratospheric sales since early 2017, making it one of the buzziest startups in Silicon Valley. But now a backlash over the company’s popularity with teenagers could jeopardize that. This week on Decrypted, Olivia Zaleski and Pia Gadkari trace the company’s story from its origins. JUUL says it only ever wanted to help adults quit smoking. Instead, it’s become a social media sensation. And critics fear teen vaping is nothing short of a new public health crisis in the making.
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Youth Vaping Has Soared in 2018, New Data Show
The Wall Street Journal: Number of high schoolers who used e-cigarettes in the past 30 days has risen some 75% in 2018. Teen use of e-cigarettes has soared this year, according to new research conducted in 2018 that suggest fast-changing youth habits will pose a challenge for public-health officials, schools and parents.
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JUUL, e-cigarette Popular Among Teens, being Investigated by FDA
CBS News: The Food and Drug Administration says it is preparing to launch a campaign to discourage teens from using e-cigarettes, also known as vaping. The FDA is also investigating the marketing strategies and impact.
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Teens Say They Don't Vape, They JUUL, Making E-Cigarette Use Hard to Track
Bloomberg News: For the first time, public health officials will ask about JUUL by name in an annual youth tobacco survey. A language gap is making it harder for U.S. health officials to measure a teen-vaping epidemic. For some young people who use the popular vaping device sold by JUUL Labs Inc., “JUULing” is a verb in its own right
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In Washington, JUUL Vows to Curb Youth Vaping. Its Lobbying in States Runs Counter to That Pledge.
New York Times: For months, JUUL Labs has had a clear, unwavering message for officials in Washington: The e-cigarette giant is committed to doing all it can to keep its hugely popular vaping products away from teenagers.
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FDA: Dozens of seizures reported after vaping, mostly by young people
USA Today: At least 35 people reported seizures after using electronic cigarettes over the past decade, the Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday.
FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said the agency is investigating the incidents, which primarily involved youth and young adults and were discovered in its "adverse event" reporting system.
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As Kids Get Hooked on Vaping, Parents Are Desperate for Treatment That Doesn't Exist
Time: Jami Scheetz knew that her 15-year-old son, Devon, needed help. His grades were slipping and he had been caught vaping at school so many times that he was on the brink of being expelled. Last fall, at the start of his freshman year, Devon’s school even sent him to the hospital for drug testing after getting in trouble once again. In the emergency room, Devon finally admitted it: He was addicted. “He said to me, ‘Mom, I can’t quit on my own. I need help,'” Scheetz says.
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Two common e-cigarette flavors found to "destroy lung function"
The New York Post: Two chemicals found in two popular vaping flavors could destroy lung function, experts have warned.
The Harvard scientists’ findings have suggested that inhaling the popcorn- and caramel-flavored e-cigarette liquids could increase a vaper’s risk of respiratory diseases.
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The Dangerous Flavors of E-Cigarettes
New England Journal of Medicine: Nicotine is amazingly addictive. About 20 years ago, researchers in a nearby laboratory were studying the effects of cigarette smoke on lung function in mice. To expose a mouse to cigarette smoke, the mouse is placed in a plastic tube, head out. The tube is positioned in a stream of smoke, which the mouse then breathes.
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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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