NEWS
UNIVISION: Interview with PAVe Advocate Veronica Tomor on Univision Dallas - Forth Worth
WPTV: A new law took effect in Florida in July 2022 that allows counties and cities to ban smoking at their beaches and parks.
INSIDER - One tobacco giant — Reynolds American — is actively spreading millions of dollars to hundreds of state-level political candidates and political action committees, according to an internal corporate governance document reviewed by Insider.
WFLA: Dr. Anthony Sochet with Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital discusses the negative effects of vaping on heart and lungs with Bloom Heart Walk Edition co-host Stacie Schaible.
WFLA: Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody has a warning for parents: Teenagers who vape may be exacerbating the COVID-19 crisis and could be more vulnerable to increased risk of complications.
Fox35 Orlando: A college cheerleader who became hooked on vaping at the age of 18 said he almost died.
WFTV-9: Seventh graders at Millennium Middle School may already know what vaping is, but on Thursday, they got to see the negative impact it can have. The school district on Thursday rolled out a new campaign called “It Won’t Be Me" to teach students about the dangers of things like vaping.
People 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.
WEBSITES
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Truth Initiatives’s This is Quitting Program
CATCH My Breath’s peer-led teaching approach empowers students with the knowledge and skills needed to make informed decisions about e-cigarettes and resist social pressures to vape.
N-O-T: Not On Tobacco—Proven Teen Smoking and Vaping Cessation Program
This snapshot of U.S. e-cigarette regulations was prepared by the Public Health Law Center.
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