Smoking in United States of America
In the United States of America, smoking is allowed but tobacco products should follow some regulations. Under these regulations, health warnings on tobacco packaging including cigarettes are mandatory, the minimum legal age for their sales is 21 years, and there are no federal legal restrictions on smoking in public places. While tobacco advertising is regulated, not all forms of their advertising are banned. An excise tax of 32.16% with a total taxation rate of 37.36% is applied on cigarettes. Cigarettes can legally be sold with authorised documents. They may also be purchased through vending machines as well as through online channels. Importing cigarettes for trade is allowed with an appropriate import license. Despite these control measures, prevalence data show that smoking remains an important public health issue in the United States. There were 39.8 million current smokers in the country in 2024. This represents an overall adult smoking prevalence of 14.1%, with higher prevalence among men (17.1%) than among women (11.1%). In comparison, the overall current smoking prevalence was 12.3% in 2022. The adult daily smoking prevalence was recorded to be 10.01% in 2020. Smoking-related mortality also remains significant in the country. In 2021, smoking resulted in 360,370 deaths, including 216,986 male deaths and 143,383 female deaths. This shows that smoking accounted for 10.38% of all deaths in the United States in 2021, with a higher rate among men (11.9%) than among women (8.7%).
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October 11, 2019 by sciencedaily.com
E-cigarettes, tobacco and cannabis products are littering high schools
High schools in the San Francisco Bay Area are being contaminated by plastics and toxic litter from e-cigarettes, cannabis products and combustible tobacco products such as cigarettes and cigarillos, a new study by researchers at UC San Francisco has found. "We're in the midst of an epidemic of teen e-cigarette use that is causing substantial toxic waste contamination at some high schools from teens discarding these products on the ground," said first author Jeremiah Mock, [...]
"But e-cigarettes are not the only problem," Mock said. [...]
October 10, 2019 by bloomberg.com
Juul Is the New Big Tobacco
In 2004, Stanford grad students Adam Bowen and James Monsees set out to reinvent the tobacco industry. In 2015 their company, Juul Labs Inc., began selling e-cigarettes and flavored nicotine pods that were twice as potent as many competing vape rigs. By the following winter, “Juuling” was a verb. The two men, former smokers, said their goal was to save millions of lives a year by helping smokers switch. “Fifty years from now, nobody’s going to be smoking cigarettes,” Bowen said in a promotional video. [...]
October 10, 2019 by cnn.com
NYC files federal lawsuit accusing 22 online sellers of targeting young with flavored e-cigarettes
October 10, 2019 by reuters.com
Alibaba to stop sales of e-cigarette components in United States
Chinese e-commerce firm Alibaba said on Wednesday it will stop selling e-cigarette components in the United States, amid growing regulatory scrutiny and reports of lung disease and some deaths linked to vaping.
The move follows announcements by Kroger Co and Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc this week that they would stop selling e-cigarettes at their stores, in line with a similar decision by Walmart.
Alibaba said it already had a long-standing policy in place to not sell complete e-cigarette products in the United States.
October 10, 2019 by filtermag.org
Older Smokers Are the Forgotten Victims of Our Vaping Wars
You might have seen the recent article about an 18-year-old who vaped for two years and was told by a doctor that he now has the lungs “of a 70-year-old lifetime heavy smoker.”
What caused this and other vaping-related cases of lung damage became clearer in the past week, when the FDA announced that the majority of such cases were due to adulterants in illicit “products containing THC.” The conflation of these illicit THC vape products with nicotine-containing products has likely left many people confused.
October 10, 2019 by youtube.com
Flight attendant union decries "catastrophic" fire risk from e-cigarettes on planes
The president of the largest flight attendant union wants the FAA to ban e-cigarettes from planes because their lithium-ion batteries could be a fire hazard. Lithium-ion batteries power virtually everything we travel with -- but the concern about vaping devices stems from the fact they're often powered by cheaper batteries, raising fears they're more likely to fail. [...]
October 09, 2019 by vapingpost.com
Understanding A “Temporary” Vaping Ban
Prohibition is a tough pill to swallow. When a regulatory framework advances to the point that a certain type of behavior or product must be prohibited, the outcomes almost always fail. [...] During the push to prohibit substance abuse during the earlier years of the last century, the politics of prohibition amplified prejudices against many marginalized communities. This also is the case for the broader population that drank alcohol for the sake of community or to cope with the hardships of the time.
October 09, 2019 by filtermag.org
New York’s Vape Flavor Ban Has Been Blocked—For Now
In a victory for vapers and vape shop owners, a state appellate court imposed a temporary restraining order on New York’s intended ban on flavored vaping products on October 4—a day before it was due to take effect.
The lawsuit that secured this stay of execution was filed by the trade group Vapor Technology Association, and by Benevolent ELiquids Inc. and Perfection Vapes, two local businesses. “We are very pleased with the New York State Appellate Division’s decision, which acknowledges the strength of our claims about the State’s executive overreach, [...]
October 08, 2019 by thehill.com
Health advocate predicts Trump administration won't follow through on vaping measures
One health advocate is predicting that the Trump administration won’t ultimately follow through on its crackdown to ban flavored e-cigarettes.
Linda Richter, a Director of Policy Research and Analysis at the nonpartisan Center on Addiction, on Monday pointed to a recent Los Angeles Times report that found that Obama-era officials had nixed a similar ban on child-friendly vaping flavors in 2015 because the economic impact at the time outweighed the supposed negative health effects.
October 08, 2019 by cnn.com
New bill aims to cap nicotine levels in e-cigarettes
US Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi announced new legislation Monday that would put a cap the concentration of nicotine in e-cigarette products. The newly introduced bill would restrict nicotine content to no more than 20 milligrams per milliliter "to make them significantly less addictive and appealing to youth," according to an announcement Monday by Krishnamoorthi's office. [...] Experts say that high nicotine concentrations have played a role in what they describe as an epidemic of vaping among youth. [...]