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December 18, 2018 by businessinsider.com.pl

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been cracking down on adolescent tobacco use with new e-cigarette and flavored tobacco product regulations, and a new study reinforces how dangerous these products can be to a person’s health. On December 14, JAMA released an investigative report that looked at potential exposure to harmful toxins in e-cigarettes versus traditional cigarettes and found that both contain high amounts of toxins like nicotine, lead, cadmium, and pyrene.

December 18, 2018 by oregonlive.com

Imagine a world in which you were not allowed to tell the truth, make art, or use descriptive words for a legal product that can save lives. By law.

Couldn’t happen here—not in Oregon, right?

But it has.

That’s effectively what the state of Oregon is doing to small business owners like me. I am the owner of a 21-and-over vape shop in Portland, and most of my customers are people just like me: people who have used e-cigarettes to kick a cigarette habit. E-cigarettes are currently the most popular and effective method of quitting smoking.

December 17, 2018 by theverge.com

E-cigarette users’ pee contains more heavy metals as well as signs of exposure to carcinogens and other irritating chemicals than the pee of non-vapers, hinting that the habit might come with serious health risks. At the same time, vapers who switched completely from cigarettes still had lower levels of these substances in their urine than their smoking peers [...] researchers led by Maciej Goniewicz [...] analyzed questionnaires and urine samples submitted by more than 5,100 people between 2013 and 2014 to try to spot patterns of chemical exposures in their pee.

December 17, 2018 by wsj.com

Employees at Juul Labs Inc. were accustomed to puffing away on the sleek e-cigarettes that made the startup an overnight success. So their boss had to acknowledge some awkwardness on Tuesday when he delivered the message: No vaping in the office.

Juul’s chief told employees across the U.S. that, starting immediately, they could no longer use its products inside at work and that future vaping at San Francisco headquarters must happen outside under a tent to be erected specifically for the purpose.

December 13, 2018 by oregonlive.com

The owner of two Portland vaping stores is asking a judge to throw out a state list of banned words and pictures on vaping liquid packages, saying the state’s “ridiculous” rules defy logic.

For instance, Paul Bates says in his lawsuit, the packages can’t use the words “apple” or “strawberry” even to describe the apple- or strawberry-infused products he sells for e-cigarettes. The same goes for pictures of apples or strawberries. [...]

December 13, 2018 by bostonherald.com

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is urging men who use e-cigarettes to avoid vaping liquids containing prescription drugs used to treat erectile dysfunction.

The watchdog agency in October sent a warning letter to China-based e-cigarette company HelloCig to stop selling the illegal products, saying there would be stiff consequences if the company did not comply, including “seizure or injunction.”

December 13, 2018 by registerguard.com

The Federal Drug Administration is cracking down on flavored e-cigarettes products in an effort to head off a new teen tobacco use epidemic but the department may hinder some adults trying to quit smoking. Eric Pinnell, the owner of Oregon Vape Society in Springfield doesn’t object to the idea of restricting sales of flavored e-liquids, but he does have some concerns that the federal government will take it one step further and ban flavored e-liquids all together.

December 04, 2018 by azcentral.com

Regular cigarettes are out. E-cigarettes are in.

That's one of the main findings in the 2018 Arizona Youth Survey, which asks, among other things, which illicit substances Arizona's eighth-, 10th- and 12th-graders gravitate toward. 30 days. The Arizona Youth Survey didn't ask students about e-cigarettes until 2016, but usage among high school seniors within 30 days of when they were asked jumped from 17.6 percent in 2016 to 26.1 percent in 2018.

November 27, 2018 by foxsanantonio.com

If you are a parent, pay close attention, there are vaping devices small enough for school kids are taking them to school [...] "They're easy to hide, they look like a flash drive but they're a vaping device, the most popular called a Juul pen, which is normally filled with liquid nicotine," DEA Agent Wendell Campbell said. "But kids are misusing it, filling it with marijuana extract to get a secret high many times while in school."

THC, or tetrahydrocannabinol, is the main chemical responsible for most of marijuana's psychological effects.

November 27, 2018 by journalgazette.net

The increased popularity of e-cigarettes has reversed years of progress by educators, parents and doctors to turn young people away from nicotine, local health experts said Monday.

Fewer of middle school and high school age are smoking but use of e-cigarettes – which look like USB drives, are marketed as alternatives to smoking and contain nicotine, the addictive ingredient in tobacco – is rising, health officials said, and the harmful chemicals in the devices can affect heart and brain function.