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October 08, 2019 by reuters.com

Kroger Co and Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc said on Monday they would stop selling e-cigarettes at their stores, amid heightened regulatory scrutiny of the product and reports of lung disease and some deaths linked to vaping.

Their move comes weeks after Walmart Inc said it was pulling the plug on e-cigarette sales, citing growing federal, state and local regulatory complexity and uncertainty. Kroger said it would discontinue sales of e-cigarettes at its stores and fuel centers after selling through its current inventory.

October 08, 2019 by youtube.com

Dr. Sally Satel, addiction psychiatrist and Yale University School of Medicine lecturer, joins "Squawk Box" to discuss vaping health risks as more deaths are reported.

October 07, 2019 by wsj.com

New Yorkers think the use of e-cigarettes is a serious public health problem and support a ban on flavored e-cigarette products, according to a poll released Monday.

The Siena College Research Institute found that 78% of the 589 New Yorkers surveyed in late September believe that vaping is a somewhat serious or very serious public health problem. Sixty-one percent of those polled supported a temporary ban on the sale of flavored e-cigarette and vaping products, while 52% said they supported banning the sale of all e-cigarettes [...]

October 04, 2019 by qeios.com

In November 2018 the US Food and Drug Administration announced restrictions on e-cigarette manufacturers in response to a perceived epidemic of e-cigarette use among high school students. The stimulus was headline figures from the 2018 National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS). We analyse e-cigarette use and dependence in the NYTS in relation to lifetime history of use of tobacco products.
Design and setting: Nationally representative survey of high school students in 2017 and 2018.

October 04, 2019 by time.com

According to the National Youth Tobacco Survey, more than 20% of US high schoolers vaped in 2018—an alarming increase of 78% over the previous year. Preliminary data from this year’s survey suggest a continued rise in youth e-cigarette use. Recent studies suggest that young people who vape are more likely to become smokers. Public health officials warn of an epidemic, the full consequences of which are not yet known. But the most dangerous aspect of vaping might not be what it does to the body, but rather what it does to the body politic.

October 03, 2019 by filtermag.org

The feds have been publicly finessing their approach to vaping, amid national outcries over both an outbreak of lung disease and the impact of bans of vape flavors on former smokers. But what do their words indicate in practice?

The latest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data on the outbreak of lung disease popularly associated with “vaping” indicate that 77 percent of over 800 reported cases⁠ [...] involve patients who used unregulated cannabis-derived products. Just 16 percent of the patients reported using only nicotine-containing products.

October 03, 2019 by dailymail.co.uk

Washington will become the fourth state to ban flavored vaping products amid the slew of mysterious lung illnesses that have sickened hundreds across the country.

Governor Jay Inslee signed an executive order on Friday asking the state's Board of Health to issue the emergency rule at its next meeting, scheduled for October 9. 

The ban, slated to last four months, will apply to products containing nicotine as well as THC, the main psychoactive ingredient in marijuana. 

October 02, 2019 by sciencedaily.com

Published in the September-October issue of the Journal of Pediatric Nursing, the study is one of a few to examine the perception adolescents have of e-cigarettes and where these youth receive information about the products. In the wake of recent vaping-related illnesses and deaths, teenage perceptions of the products are crucial to guiding the development of interventions, says Eunhee Park, PhD, lead investigator and assistant professor in the UB School of Nursing.

"E-cigarette use is an emerging health issue," said Park. [...]

October 01, 2019 by filtermag.org

New York has joined a wave of bans on sales of flavored vape products that’s spreading across US cities and states—with the threat of a national ban to follow. On September 17, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that an emergency ban on flavors will take effect on October 4.

While the voices of wealthy white parents concerned about youth use have been centered in the vaping debate, those of former smokers who now vape—who overwhelmingly come from marginalized populations, and most of whom used flavors to quit cigarettes—have been ignored.

September 29, 2019 by theguardian.com

Up until a month ago, it sometimes seemed like everybody vaped, from international celebrities to local teens. Now, it can feel as if everybody is trying to quit. “They’ve been touted as safer than cigarettes, even to the extreme of being safe, period,” said John Maa, a past president of the San Francisco Marin Medical Society. “But we don’t really know what the effects of chronic vaping is on your lungs.”