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Online vape retailers ignore rules meant to protect minors, UCSD study finds
1 month, 1 week ago

Online vape retailers ignore rules meant to protect minors, UCSD study finds

LA Times  

Public health researchers at UC San Diego tested whether 78 online retailers complied with federal and local rules on flavored vaping products. The results of the study, which were published online Monday by the Journal of the American Medical Assn., showed that more than two-thirds of the buyers successfully obtained flavored vapes, including almost 70% of the buyers in the …

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It’s easier than you might think for teens to buy restricted e-cigarette devices online
1 month, 1 week ago

It’s easier than you might think for teens to buy restricted e-cigarette devices online

CNN  

CNN — Although sales of tobacco products have been restricted in hundreds of municipalities across the US, a new study is highlighting some loopholes that allow children to bypass online regulations to buy e-cigarettes. To regulate these purchases, the researchers suggest “routine surveillance of online retailers” that “may identify opportunities to strengthen the implementation of existing public health laws designed …

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Unveiling the hazards: The truth about vaping and hookah smoking
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Unveiling the hazards: The truth about vaping and hookah smoking

Hindustan Times  

Our society has long battled with the dangers of tobacco smoking, but now faces an additional threat as vaping and hookah use among young adults surge. The addictive nature of nicotine in many vaping products increases the likelihood of dual addiction to both vapes and conventional cigarettes, posing a threat of lifelong dependency among young users. Hookah smoking, often perceived …

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WHO report highlights e-cigarette crisis: Big tobacco companies target kids to replace lost smokers
6 months, 3 weeks ago

WHO report highlights e-cigarette crisis: Big tobacco companies target kids to replace lost smokers

Hindustan Times  

The WHO warns vaping gives tobacco companies a way to replace dead smokers. According to the report, big tobacco companies have arranged their messaging and products to target kids in an attempt to replace the millions of customers who die from their products each year. In a 'vaping public health crisis' In 2018-2019, public health officials in the US acknowledged …

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Vaping may increase risk of lung cancer
7 months ago

Vaping may increase risk of lung cancer

The Hindu  

Published : May 23, 2024 22:52 IST - 3 MINS READ People who quit smoking and then took up vaping were more likely to develop lung cancer than those who did not vape, according to the study conducted in South Korea. “This is the first large population-based study to demonstrate the increased risk of lung cancer in e-cigarette users after …

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California banned the sales of flavored tobacco products, but researchers say online sales have boomed
1 year, 1 month ago

California banned the sales of flavored tobacco products, but researchers say online sales have boomed

LA Times  

Gamer Aghajani, left, and Mampreh Zadoorian visit the Garden on Foothill hookah lounge in Tujunga in 2021. Despite California’s efforts to stop the sale of flavored tobacco products, UC San Diego researchers say consumers have discovered a loophole: online shopping. In 2022, Senate Bill 793 went into effect, prohibiting the sale of flavored tobacco products — making California the second …

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Free vapes for children to be banned
1 year, 6 months ago

Free vapes for children to be banned

The Telegraph  

Rishi Sunak has announced a ban on rogue firms who target children with colourful free samples of vapes. “I am deeply concerned about the sharp rise in kids vaping and shocked by reports of illicit vapes containing lead getting into the hands of school children,” he said. “We should continue to encourage smokers to swap to vaping as the lesser …

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EXCLUSIVE Inside Britain's child vaping epidemic
1 year, 8 months ago

EXCLUSIVE Inside Britain's child vaping epidemic

Daily Mail  

EXCLUSIVE: Our probe shows how vapes are being sold next to sweets With shelves packed full of lollipops and chocolate, you'd be forgiven for assuming this was just a sweet shop. House of Candy in Oxford Street where half of the store is American sweets and the other has vapes up for sale in neon light displays Also called Candy …

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Putting vapes in plain packaging ‘reduces their appeal to children’
1 year, 9 months ago

Putting vapes in plain packaging ‘reduces their appeal to children’

The Independent  

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E-cigarettes sold in the playground, as Queensland inquiry looks at how kids get vapes. This is what the law says about vaping
1 year, 9 months ago

E-cigarettes sold in the playground, as Queensland inquiry looks at how kids get vapes. This is what the law says about vaping

ABC  

Is this the vaping generation? Queensland's health minister says teachers are "begging" for help with students vaping. Children are buying e-cigarettes online, over-the-counter — and even on-selling them to each other at a mark-up, according to Mark Pegram, the principal of Gold Coast's Pacific Pines High School. "The other scary thing is these young people are then on-selling at a …

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Australia has a vaping problem, but no easy health or political solution
1 year, 10 months ago

Australia has a vaping problem, but no easy health or political solution

ABC  

Depending on who you listen to, it's either a public health solution, or a public health crisis. The head of the TGA, Professor John Skerritt, has warned that vaping is "emerging as one of Australia's most significant public health problems". While Australia has pursued a prescription-only model, New Zealand allows nicotine vapes to be sold to people over 18 in …

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Juul Labs settles litigation in the United States
2 years ago

Juul Labs settles litigation in the United States

CNN  

New York CNN Business — E-cigarette maker Juul Labs said Tuesday that it has settled litigation it faced in the United States, resolving a substantial amount of legal issues for the company. “The global resolution covers more than 5,000 cases brought by approximately 10,000 plaintiffs against Juul Labs and its officers and directors,” the company said in a news release. …

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FDA authorizes first e-cigarette, cites benefit for smokers
3 years, 2 months ago

FDA authorizes first e-cigarette, cites benefit for smokers

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — For the first time, the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday authorized an electronic cigarette, saying the vaping device from R.J. Reynolds can help smokers cut back on conventional cigarettes. “Today’s authorizations are an important step toward ensuring all new tobacco products undergo the FDA’s robust, scientific premarket evaluation,” said Mitch Zeller, director of the FDA’s tobacco center, …

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California will impose new vaping tax to curb teen use, fund public health programs
3 years, 2 months ago

California will impose new vaping tax to curb teen use, fund public health programs

LA Times  

TSA agent Pierre Tuble enjoys a quick vape on a break at LAX last year. Gavin Newsom on Monday approved a new 12.5% excise tax on electronic cigarettes to be paid by California consumers to boost public health and education programs. “We know that vaping products are more likely to be used by teens and young people than other forms …

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Vaping on film looks less glamorous than the Hollywood smoking of yesteryear
3 years, 5 months ago

Vaping on film looks less glamorous than the Hollywood smoking of yesteryear

Salon  

The murder investigation hits another dead end. Since these early examples of e-cigarette use on screen, the global tobacco industry has become heavily invested in vaping products and their promotion. Exposure to vaping depictions and imagery on social media platforms is rife and includes paying high profile users to promote e-cigarettes and tobacco products. From glamour to gritty In contrast …

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Tracing the history of vaping on screen in Hollywood films and TV: From glamour to grit and addiction
3 years, 5 months ago

Tracing the history of vaping on screen in Hollywood films and TV: From glamour to grit and addiction

Firstpost  

The tobacco and entertainment industries have long and tangled histories — including product placement in movies, television sponsorships and promotional relationships with glamorous Hollywood stars. Since these early examples of e-cigarette use on screen, the global tobacco industry has become heavily invested in vaping products and their promotion. Exposure to vaping depictions and imagery on social media platforms is rife …

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