FDA Weighs Oversight Changes After Formula, Juul Troubles
US News: The head of the Food and Drug Administration is asking for a review of the agency’s food and tobacco programs.
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FDA issues more than 100 warnings over new synthetic nicotine law
Axios: The FDA said it has issued warnings to two manufacturers for marketing synthetic vaping products without authorization and sent 107 other warning letters to retailers for illegally selling such products to underage buyers in recent days.
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Association Between Exposure to Tobacco Content on Social Media and Tobacco Use
JAMA Network: A systematic review and meta-analysis of 29 studies showed that participants who were exposed to tobacco content on social media, compared with those who were not exposed, had greater odds of reporting lifetime tobacco use, past 30-day tobacco use, and susceptibility to use tobacco among never users.
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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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