VOX: There’s a robust literature on what works — and what doesn’t — to help youth get off cigarettes. Krishnan-Sarin says for now, she and other tobacco and addiction experts are extrapolating from that research to help patients who want to quit vaping. But there’s a twist: The experience of quitting nicotine vaping may actually turn out to be quite different from stopping smoking. Quitting vaping may actually be harder.
Read MoreFDA: On Dec. 20, 2019, the President signed legislation amending the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, and raising the federal minimum age of sale of tobacco products from 18 to 21 years. It is now illegal for a retailer to sell any tobacco product—including cigarettes, cigars and e-cigarettes—to anyone under 21.
Read MoreCBS19 News: More than two dozen members of the U.S. Senate, including Tim Kaine, are criticizing a new policy they say won't address certain flavored e-cigarettes or flavored e-liquids that are not in cartridges.
Read MoreMedical News Today: A team at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, has uncovered another electronic cigarette health concern. This time, it relates to stroke risk.
Read MoreNJ.com: New Jersey could soon outlaw flavored e-cigarettes, as state lawmakers Monday gave final approval to a bill banning certain vaping products in the midst of a national health crisis.
Read MoreNorthJersey.com: Flavored vaping products could soon be outlawed in New Jersey after lawmakers voted Monday to prohibit their sales and cap the amount of nicotine in vaping liquids.
Read MoreAmerican Journal of Public Health: The “95% safer” estimate is a “factoid”: unreliable information repeated so often that it becomes accepted as fact. Public health practitioners, scientists, and physicians should expose the fragile status of the factoid emphatically by highlighting its unreliable provenance and its lack of validity today.
Read MoreInsider NJ: Time is running out. NJ Lawmakers Must Act NOW to end the sale of ALL flavored tobacco products in New Jersey including flavored e-cigarettes, cigars & menthol cigarettes!
Read MoreABC 7 - WJLA: A ban on most flavored vaping products announced by the Trump administration Thursday has left few on either side of the contentious policy dispute satisfied as the president attempts to navigate a compromise between the demands of public health advocates and the needs of a growing American industry.
Read MorePasack Press: Dorian Fuhrman and Meredith Berkman, two of the co-founders of Parents Against Vaping e-cigarettes (PAVe), provided the information about vaping dangers and gave insight to help empower parents to discuss those dangers with their children to keep them from getting “fooled into JUUL.”
Read MoreNorth Jersey.com: Committees in the Senate and Assembly approved a group of bills that ban the sale of flavored e-cigarette products and menthol cigarettes, increase taxes on vaping products and set a framework for oversight of vaping retailers. The bills prompted hours of discussion as lawmakers expressed an urgent need to address a public health issue, while also hearing concerns that a ban could hurt businesses that sell to adults or could create a black market.
Read MoreUS News & World Report: Candy, cocoa and chocolate, as well as any other flavor of e-cigarette, are among the flavors New Jersey lawmakers sought to prohibit on Thursday, along with a separate ban on menthol-flavored traditional cigarettes.
Read MoreNJ.com: New Jersey should ban the sale of all flavored vaping products — including menthol — and prohibit the online sale of e-cigarettes, according to a task force Gov. Phil Murphy appointed to address a wave of severe lung diseases that have killed 18 people in the nation, including a woman in the state.
Read MoreNBC News: The first study on the long-term health effects of electronic cigarettes finds that the devices are linked to an increased risk of chronic lung diseases, according to research published Monday in theAmerican Journal of Preventive Medicine.
Read MoreNY Post: New York will require all private and public health insurance companies to fully cover costs related to quitting vaping, the state Department of Financial Services said Thursday.
Read MoreThe Atlantic: Branded “IQOS,” which is widely believed to be an acronym for “I Quit Original Smoking,” the device is the first in what’s expected to be a new class known as “heated tobacco” or “heat not burn” products. They’re not vaping or smoking, but another way of inhaling the addictive stimulant nicotine.
Read MorePR 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.
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