Tulalip Tribes sues Juul, claiming e-cigarette maker targeted youth with ‘deceptive’ ads
The Seattle Times: The Tulalip Tribes of Washington are the latest plaintiffs to sue e-cigarette behemoth Juul Labs for targeting adolescents — including tribal youth — with misleading ads that downplayed the product’s addictive properties.
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Experts divided on whether taking Juul off market would dent teen vaping
The Hill: The Food and Drug Administration made international headlines late last month when it stripped vaping giant Juul’s products from the e-cigarette market, drawing praise from anti-tobacco advocates and lawmakers.
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FDA temporarily suspends order banning Juul cigarettes
NPR: The Food and Drug Administration issued an administrative stay Tuesday on the order it issued last month for vaping company Juul to pull its electronic cigarettes from the market.
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UNLV goes completely tobacco-free, starting Aug. 15
(KTNV) — UNLV is becoming a tobacco-free institution starting Aug. 15, 2022 the university announced in a press release on Friday.
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UNLV study finds link between cigarette smoking, risk of bone fractures in men
(KSNV) — A new study out of UNLV has found a link between smoking and cases of bone fractures among men.
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Young adults are underestimating the dangers of nicotine
Truth Initiative: Many young adults aren’t aware of the dangers of nicotine, according to new Truth Initiative research published in BMJ Open.
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Charming e-cigarette users with distorted science: a survey examining social media platform use, nicotine-related misinformation and attitudes towards the tobacco industry
BMJ Open: Public understanding of the harms of nicotine are inextricably linked to harm perceptions of combustable cigarettes posing challenges to health communicators and practitioners.
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Juul is ordered by the FDA to pull all of its vaping products from the U.S. market
NPR: JUUL Labs is no longer allowed to sell or distribute its e-cigarette or vaping products in the U.S. The FDA said its review found Juul products potentially harmful. The company plans to fight back.
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Idaho House narrowly passes bill to regulate vape shops
(KTVB 7) - After over an hour of heated debate, the Idaho House of Representatives narrowly passed a bill regulating e-cigarettes and vape products the same as traditional tobacco.
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Bill raising smoking, vaping age to 21 heads to governor's desk
(IDAHO PRESS) - More than two years after the minimum age for smoking or vaping rose to 21 nationally, a divided Idaho House on Monday narrowly passed a bill to make state law match up; it currently still sets a minimum age of 18. The Senate-passed bill now goes to the governor’s desk.
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Idaho Office of Drug Policy launches a teen vaping prevention campaign aimed at parents
(IDAHO NEWS 6) - The Office of Drug Policy (ODP) is using Be The Parents, the long-running underage drinking prevention campaign, to provide parents and caregivers with facts and prevention tips about teen vaping. The digital campaign launched February 1.
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Tybee Island City Council pass beach wide cigarette ban beginning this summer
(WJCL 22) - Flicking your cigarette butts is a thing of the past as city council decides to ban smoking across the beach.
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'Making the change' | Firefighters getting students as young as 2nd grade to turn in their vapes
(11ALIVE) - The Rome-Floyd County Fire Department educators are going around to schools and sharing the dangers of vaping.
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Smoking in public to be prohibited in Gwinnett County, with few exceptions
GWINNETT COUNTY, GA — Tuesday, May 24th, the Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners passed a countywide smoke free ordinance.
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'No Smoking or Vaping Beyond this Point': Tybee Island's beach ban officially begins
(WJCL 22) - Effective June 1, smoking and vaping is banned on Tybee Island beaches.
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Buford High School twins on a mission to raise awareness among teens , parents of the dangers of vaping
(GWINNETT DAILY POST) - The Borrego brothers took action by creating the Vaping-Attention to Prevention, or VA2P, club at Buford High School to raise awareness among their classmates about the dangers of e-cigarette use.
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Washington, D.C.’s Mayor Signs Flavoured-Tobacco Ban Into Law
On June 29th, the Washington, DC Council voted in favor of a ban on the sale of all flavoured tobacco products, including safer alternatives such as e-cigarettes. As predicted, Mayor Muriel Bowser has now signed the ban into law.
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E-Cigarette use among teens and kids could increase as schools reopen, statistics for the DMV
(WDVM) — School systems and parents have taken precautions to protect students from the COVID-19 pandemic, but with in-person learning ramping back up, there’s another epidemic that parents should be aware of: the e-cigarette epidemic.
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E-Cigarette Maker JUUL To Relocate Headquarters To D.C.
WAMU: JUUL’s move of its headquarters from San Francisco to D.C. puts it closer to lawmakers and regulators whose work will shape the company’s profits and future potential.
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Central Iowa Vapors & Parents Against Vaping E-Cigarettes (VAPE) react to FDA order
KCRG: Several organizations have voiced their reaction to the FDA’s order to remove Juul e-cigarettes from the US market.
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