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March 25, 2022 by cnn.com

The US Food and Drug Administration gave the official green light Thursday to several tobacco-flavored e-cigarette products from Logic Technology Development LLC. The FDA said it is also "close" to additional decisions about products that make up a larger share of the market.

But public health advocates are frustrated, saying the agency has blown past a September deadline set by US District Court in Maryland to decide what e-cigarette products may remain on the market. Though e-cigarette products have been allowed to remain on the market for years, in 2020, the FDA asked the companies to submit applications to keep products on the market.

March 24, 2022 by ctinsider.com

A push for Connecticut to ban the sale of flavored e-cigarettes, which has drawn fierce resistance from the vaping industry and concern from some lawmakers, faces a key vote in the General Assembly this week. For several years, Connecticut lawmakers have sought to ban flavored vaping products as use has skyrocketed among youth. Previous proposals would have banned all flavored tobacco items, including menthol cigarettes, but this year’s bill would just prohibit the sale of flavored vapes. Gov. Ned Lamont supports the proposal and included a ban on flavored vaping products in his budget plan two years ago that failed to pass.

March 23, 2022 by medium.com

This month, the government made public the 2021 National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS). The results should be cause for celebration.

They have not been. They have been underplayed.

That does not reflect well on the CDC, the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, the Truth Initiative, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Parents Against Vaping E-Cigarettes, and the cancer, lung and heart disease associations that make up the anti-tobacco industrial complex.

March 22, 2022 by regulatorwatch.com

Congress granted FDA the authority to regulate synthetic nicotine in a crass attempt to ameliorate the moral panic over teen vaping.

A problem that many researchers say is waning if it existed at all.

Joining us today for a special LIVE edition of RegWatch is Amanda Wheeler, president of the American Vapor Manufacturers. Learn what happens next for the U.S. vaping industry as it navigates the treacherous path to keep much-needed safer nicotine products on the market.

March 21, 2022 by ctpost.com

As anticipated, the Connecticut Public Health Committee raised Senate Bill 367 recently, which would ban the sale of all flavored e-cigarettes except those that taste like tobacco. This legislation is no surprise: leadership in the Public Health Committee has made a flavor ban a top priority, and Gov. Ned Lamont has been a longtime advocate, even including it in his 2020 budget proposal. He has committed to signing it into law if the Legislature passes it.

March 21, 2022 by reason.com

Sometime in the not-too-distant future, if it hasn't happened already, the first American will likely be sentenced to prison for selling flavored tobacco or e-cigarettes.

It might happen in Massachusetts, where state attorney general Maura Healey announced charges last year against New Hampshire resident Samuel Habib, accused of running "a large-scale illegal marijuana, tobacco, and flavored vaping product distribution operation." The charge of tax evasion, stemming in part from his sale of flavored e-cigarettes that are banned in Massachusetts, carries a sentence of up to five years in prison.

March 18, 2022 by everydayhealth.com

People who smoke e-cigarettes and hookahs may be at a higher risk of inflammation and cancers of the nose, sinuses, and throat because of the way they exhale when using these devices, according to a new study.

Researchers found that vapers and hookah users are more than twice as likely to exhale particles through their nose than people who smoke cigarettes, who typically exhale the emissions from their mouth.

“This matters because the way vapers and hookah smokers use their devices may expose the nose and sinuses to far more emissions than cigarettes, which may in turn increase their risk of upper respiratory diseases,” says the study's lead author, Emma Karey, [...]

March 17, 2022 by filtermag.org

[....] President Joe Biden was about to sign an omnibus spending bill, giving the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the power to regulate synthetic nicotine like any other “tobacco product.” The law will go into effect in 30 days.

It’s possible the FDA—which is in no reasonable position to authorize the applications in that period—could order every single synthetic nicotine product off the market.

Once that date arrives in mid-April, producers of synthetic nicotine vapes and other products like pouches will have 30 additional days to file premarket tobacco product applications (PMTAs) with the FDA. [...]

March 16, 2022 by ctpublic.org

Connecticut raised its tobacco purchase age to 21 back in 2019, but youth advocates and health care experts say that hasn’t stopped flavored vaping and e-cigarette products from winding up in the hands of teens and adolescents.

“A lot of the time, people have older siblings and friends where they get these products from,” said Phoebe Lampos, a junior at Lyme-Old Lyme High School who testified Monday before Connecticut legislators about what she’s observed among fellow students.

“Once these younger students have them from older children, they’ll distribute them in their grades and then soon it just becomes something in their grade,” she said, [...]

March 14, 2022 by reason.com

The pandemic has given Americans ample reason to be skeptical of pronouncements by the Centers for Disease Control Prevention (CDC). A press release the CDC [...] reminds us that the agency's habit of misleading the public began long before anyone had heard of COVID-19.

According to the latest results from the National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS), the CDC says, "about 2.55 million U.S. middle and high school students reported current (past 30-day) use of a tobacco product in 2021." If you have not been paying attention to the CDC's inveterate dishonesty on this subject, it may surprise you to learn that most of those 2.55 million students did not use products that contained tobacco.