PR Week: Meredith Berkman cofounded PAVE in 2018, along with Diana Alessi and Dorian Fuhrman, after she discovered her son was part of that whole new generation getting hooked on nicotine. Berkman and Fuhrman have been building on their grassroots campaign since an unauthorized JUUL representative came into their sons’ ninth-grade classroom and promoted the product as “totally safe.”
Read MoreBuzzfeed News: A bipartisan letter to the White House is slamming President Trump for backing off a proposed ban on flavored e-cigarettes thought to be driving the teen vaping epidemic.
Read MorePress Release: “I'm hoping President Trump cares more about children than he does about lobbying pressure from Big Tobacco and Big Vape companies,” Durbin said. “At stake is the health of more than five million kids who are now vaping in America. This epidemic demands action now, and the President must stick with his September promise to remove kid-friendly flavors—including mint and menthol—from the market immediately.”
Read MoreThe Guardian: School districts in states including Missouri, Kansas, Arizona, New York and California have filed lawsuits against Juul and other vape companies, seeking to recoup financial losses incurred while attempting to manage the exploding number of students using e-cigarettes.
Read MorePeople Magazine: Walker McKnight’s brief vaping habit may not have killed him, but the five months he spent in an Orlando, Fla. hospital, connected to a respirator as doctors fought to keep him alive, destroyed his left lung and both his kidneys.
Read MoreCBS New York: The NYC Council approved a ban on most flavored e-cigarettes amid growing concerns over the deadly vaping crisis. The vote came just days after the second vaping-related death in the city.
Read MoreThe Hill: We're sick of business models built around addicting kids - to traditional cigarettes in the past, for example, and now to nicotine-packed e-cigarettes. We are outraged that highly addictive e-cigarette products have been cynically or illegally targeted at teens, hiding the health risks behind flavors like fruit, mint and menthol.
Read MoreUSA Today: Federal regulators this year stepped up efforts to protect young children from a deadly vaping threat: accidents involving liquid nicotine in bottles with enticing candy colors and flavors.
Read MoreThe Brookings Institution: Teen vaping has gained a significant amount of media attention since President Trump expressed concern about vaping’s public health effects in a September meeting with the FDA. While Trump had suggested a ban on flavored e-cigarettes, it seems that he has backed away from that idea due to political fallout among voters.
Read MoreU.S. News and World Report: Meredith Berkman, A New York City mother of four, began to suspect something was amiss when more than once her teenage son Caleb Mintz had friends over and she heard the "ping" of his bedroom window alarm, signaling it was being opened.
Read MoreCNBC: President Donald Trump raised his concern about possible negative consequences of banning flavored e-cigarettes during a sometimes hostile meeting on Friday with vaping industry executives and public health advocates.
Read MoreCNN Opinion: When I started using Juul -- the leading e-cigarette maker -- three years ago, I was hooked by the familiar flavor of mint and the sleek, high-tech device that first gave me a quick buzz — and then an addiction I couldn't shake. I was 14 years old.
Read MoreScholastic Choices: The e-cigarette company says its products are for adults, but behind the smokescreen is the truth: It’s been after YOU—and your money—all along.
Read MoreUSA Today: Vapers, who often see the devices as safer and healthier than cigarettes, are potentially inhaling a toxic stew of atomized oils, an aircraft de-icing chemical and toxic heavy metals leaching from the heating elements used to create the "smoke."
Read MoreInside Edition: A medical scare and 39 days spent in an inpatient rehabilitation facility more than 2,000 miles away from his home in High Point, North Carolina, would help bring Luka back to desperately worried family, but others in similar circumstances have not been as lucky.
Read MoreTime 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 MoreBusiness Insider: On the heels of new research released this week suggesting that mint and mango are the most popular flavors among high school students who use Juuls, the e-cigarette giant has announced it will stop selling its mint-flavored refillable cartridges.
Read MorePolitico: President Donald Trump's nominee for FDA commissioner declined at his confirmation hearing Wednesday to promise to move forward with an e-cigarette flavor ban that the administration has put on hold.
Read MoreFox 35 Orlando: Last week, Kyle Boyd’s family said he went to sleep and never woke up. His mother and stepfather found the 28-year-old unresponsive and unable to breathe in his room.
Read MoreUSA Today: Vapers, who often see the devices as safer and healthier than cigarettes, are potentially inhaling a toxic stew of atomized oils, an aircraft de-icing chemical and toxic heavy metals leaching from the heating elements used to create the "smoke."
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