Washington Post: The need for additional measures is urgent. Data from the 2019 National Youth Tobacco Survey shows that about 5 million young people in grades six to 12 had tried e-cigarettes in the past 30 days — an increase from about 3.6 million in 2018. And more of these teens are becoming regular users, with nearly 1 million vaping daily. That’s how addiction crises take root. Casual use turns into constant use, and before you know it, a new generation of kids is hooked on nicotine.
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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.
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FDA: 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.
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American 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.
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ABC 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.
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Pasack 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.”
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North 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.
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NJ.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.
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The 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.
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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.”
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