Wyden wants to tax e-cigarettes The hits keep coming for e-cigarettes.
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The 805 cases include people who used THC e-cigarettes and nicotine-based e-cigarettes.
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E-cigarettes typically heat a solution that contains nicotine, which makes cigarettes and e-cigarettes addictive.
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Some cities have banned flavored e-cigarettes, and earlier this summer San Francisco banned e-cigarettes altogether.
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Moderate evidence: E-cigarettes with nicotine are more effective than e-cigarettes without nicotine for smoking cessation.
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This year's outbreak of lung injuries associated with e-cigarettes shows how pervasive e-cigarettes have become.
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The agency said that it still does not know what in e-cigarettes is causing the health problems, but that the cases have occurred in people using nicotine-based e-cigarettes and THC e-cigarettes.
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In addition to possible federal action on flavored e-cigarettes, several states are moving to ban e-cigarettes altogether.
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The CDC said Thursday that it still does not know what in e-cigarettes is causing the health problems, but that the cases have occurred in people using nicotine-based e-cigarettes and THC e-cigarettes.
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Conley discussed how e-cigarettes are a safer alternative to cigarettes and why he thinks having flavored e-cigarettes is important.
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The US Food and Drug Administration has warned that e-cigarettes' fun flavors make e-cigarettes more appealing to young smokers.
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There is yet another policy option to ensure the continued attraction of vaping devices to smokers seeking to quit and reducing the appeal of e-cigarettes to young people — allowing e-cigarettes manufacturers to market e-cigarettes as smoking cessation products.
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Others champion e-cigarettes as a harm reduction device and are less worried about the traditional tobacco companies getting involved in e-cigarettes.
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E-cigarettes are not harmless Like regular cigarettes, most e-cigarettes contain nicotine, an addictive drug that harms the developing brains of teens.
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It also stated the Trump administration's policy on flavored e-cigarettes "is an important step" in preventing usage of e-cigarettes by kids.
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And there's the "conclusive evidence" that e-cigarettes can explode and burn people, and that the liquids in e-cigarettes can be fatally poisonous.
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Some patients say they modified their e-cigarettes to smoke THC or cannabinoids, while other individuals reported they only used e-cigarettes with nicotine.
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Ten years after e-cigarettes became available, governments and scientists know enough to assure smokers that e-cigarettes are safe enough for smokers to switch.
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The public is still divided over whether outlawing flavored e-cigarettes or all e-cigarettes is a good idea, according to data from Kaiser Family Foundation.
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In 2011, at least four years after e-cigarettes hit the US market, just over 3 percent of 6th through 12th graders had tried e-cigarettes.
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E-cigarettes only comprise a fraction of Altria's sales, so they have much less to lose than a company like Juul, which only makes e-cigarettes.
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As the case count rose, companies like Walmart decided to stop selling e-cigarettes, and major media companies decided to stop showing ads relating to e-cigarettes.
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India outlawed the production, sale, import, and advertising of e-cigarettes, citing the need to stop the "impact of e-cigarettes on the youth," BuzzFeed News reported.
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Public Health England, for one, declared e-cigarettes 95 percent safer than regular cigarettes, and the Royal College of Physicians endorsed e-cigarettes to help smokers quit.
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Weaver and his team plan to continue studying how perceptions of smoking and e-cigarettes affect smokers' decisions and patterns of use of e-cigarettes, as well as how smokers are reacting to newer types of e-cigarettes and possible new tobacco and e-cigarette regulations from the FDA.
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E-cigarettes: Doctors are suing the Food and Drug Administration, claiming the agency's decision to delay regulating e-cigarettes leaves teens and young adults vulnerable to tobacco addiction.
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The flawed assumption central to FDA's proposal is that young people primarily get e-cigarettes from convenience stores — where minors are allowed and most e-cigarettes are sold.
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Proponents claim such taxes would prevent youths from using e-cigarettes, but even if that were true, there's no evidence e-cigarettes pose a significant public health problem.
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Seventh graders were nine times more likely to use e-cigarettes than conventional cigarettes, while their 8th grade schoolmates were 6 times as likely to use e-cigarettes.
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The dangers of e-cigarettes E-cigarettes work by heating a pure liquid called e-juice -- composed of flavorings, propylene glycol, glycerin and often nicotine -- until it vaporizes.
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E-cigarettes There's more concern about the safety and regulation of e-cigarettes after the death of a sixth person in the US from vaping-related lung disease.
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Preliminary federal data indicates more than one-quarter of high school students are using e-cigarettes, prompting the Trump administration to ready a ban on flavored e-cigarettes.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officially acknowledges that e-cigarettes are safer than tobacco cigarettes, yet has undercut that message by stressing concerns about e-cigarettes.
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We call on lawmakers to act swiftly to enact laws to turn the tide on this growing epidemic – raising the legal purchase of all tobacco products, including e-cigarettes to 21, adding e-cigarettes to the states smoke free air law and taxing e-cigarettes the same as regular combustible cigarettes.
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Research shows that the aerosol produced by heating up e-cigarettes can contain "a lot of harmful substances" and additives in e-cigarettes can "pose health risks," said Mao.
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Why it matters: The FDA in September called the use of e-cigarettes among minors an epidemic — preliminary government data shows 77% of high schoolers have used e-cigarettes.
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Since almost all the world's e-cigarettes are made in China's Guangdong province, current and potential vapers will face higher prices for choosing to quit smoking using e-cigarettes.
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Altria has invested in e-cigarettes in recent years through its Nu Mark subsidiary, which sells devices such as the MarkTen e-cigarettes in convenience stores and tobacco shops.
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Sure, e-cigarettes can help a lot of adults: one study found that switching every American smoker to e-cigarettes over the next decade could save 6.6 million lives.
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"This study actually does support the harm reduction potential of e-cigarettes," Andy Tan, an assistant professor at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute who has studied e-cigarettes, told Time.
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Newsom has asked California lawmakers to send him legislation banning the sale of flavored e-cigarettes, and asked officials to consider taxing e-cigarettes the same as traditional ones.
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Nearly 28503 percent indicated they would start to source their e-cigarettes and e-liquids from a non-licensed vendor, and so fuel a black market trade in e-cigarettes.
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Federal law prohibits the sale of e-cigarettes to people under the age of 18, yet one in five high school students uses e-cigarettes, according to the surgeon general.
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"Considering the seriousness of the impact of e-cigarettes on the youth, the cabinet has approved an ordinance to ban e-cigarettes," Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman told a news conference.
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"Considering the seriousness of the impact of e-cigarettes on the youth, the cabinet has approved an ordinance to ban e-cigarettes," Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman told a news conference.
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The FDA was expected to ban e-cigarettes last year, but it instead pushed for e-cigarettes to be sold only in parts of stores that are closed-off to teenagers.
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"There's a legitimate role for e-cigarettes in reducing tobacco harm, but only when done in concert with appropriate regulations to reduce demand for e-cigarettes, particularly among youth," Rees says.
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The FDA was expected to ban e-cigarettes last month, but it instead pushed for e-cigarettes to be sold only in parts of stores that are closed-off to teenagers.
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Outcry over e-cigarettes has angered adults who turn to vaping to help quit smoking, even though e-cigarettes haven't been reviewed or approved by the FDA as smoking cessation devices.
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We'll start with vaping news... Walmart to stop selling e-cigarettes Walmart announced Friday it will stop selling e-cigarettes as federal and state governments crack down on the vaping industry.
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Meanwhile, e-cigarettes are increasingly popular among younger people: A recent surgeon general's report noted that the use of e-cigarettes among high school students increased by 900% from 2011 to 2015.
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Indian vendors told BuzzFeed News that the trendy e-cigarettes are flying off their shelves, at high prices, amid a lack of regulatory clarity around e-cigarettes in general in the country.
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The United States has announced plans to remove flavoured e-cigarettes from stores, citing alarming growth in teenage use of the products India also discontinued the sale of e-cigarettes in September.
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The ban in question applies to the sale and distribution of e-cigarettes, with supervisors also voting to "endorse a ban on manufacturing of e-cigarettes on city property," according to SFGate.
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E-cigarettes have only been in the United States since 2006 and remained unchecked until May 2016 when the FDA was deemed to have authority to regulate e-cigarettes as tobacco products.
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The maker of Gauloises and West cigarettes had so far only developed e-cigarettes, which use nicotine liquid, and said on Tuesday that despite the tests, e-cigarettes would remain its focus.
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More than 2 million middle and high school students were current users of e-cigarettes in 2017, the FDA said, and e-cigarettes were the most commonly used tobacco product by youth.
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Because of spikes in the use of e-cigarettes among minors, the Food and Drug Administration is expected to announce measures soon that could involve banning most flavored e-cigarettes, including mint.
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And their interest is being piqued: Even among students who never used e-cigarettes, 39 percent said they were curious about using e-cigarettes and 37 percent were curious about traditional cigarettes.
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The bill would outlaw any flavored tobacco products, including mentholated cigarettes and flavored nicotine-based e-cigarettes, and put a 75% excise tax on non-flavored e-cigarettes sold in the state.
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In the e-cigarette graph, the net difference attributable to tobacco products other than e-cigarettes is calculated by subtracting the percentage consuming e-cigarettes from the percentage consuming any tobacco product.
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Making E-cigarettes less accessible and spreading views that do not encourage E-cigarette use may help, but just as cigarettes are a cultural problem E-cigarettes will need to be resolved similarly.
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They said doctors should only recommend e-cigarettes when an FDA-approved treatment fails, and that if doctors do suggest e-cigarettes, they should manage their use like they would with other products.
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The randomized trial on e-cigarettes showed people who were randomly assigned to use e-cigarettes quit smoking at almost double the rate of people who were randomly assigned to nicotine replacement therapy.
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Published in December, the study found that using e-cigarettes alone is safer than smoking traditional cigarettes, but using both e-cigarettes and traditional cigarettes is the most dangerous (and most common) choice.
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The FDA has proposed rules that would limit the sales of flavored e-cigarettes to age-restricted, in-person locations, and require a heightened age verification process for online retailers selling e-cigarettes.
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Use of E-Cigarettes by Young People Is Major Concern, Surgeon General Declares E-cigarettes are now the most commonly used tobacco product among youths, surpassing tobacco cigarettes, according to a new report.
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The bill to ban the sale of e-cigarettes at stores in the city, as well as the delivery of e-cigarettes purchased online for delivery to San Francisco addresses, still requires final approval.
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Other "technical improvements in [e-cigarettes] over time," they said, may also explain why people who recently quit smoking and switched to e-cigarettes were less likely to relapse than those who quit earlier.
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"In general, indoor pollution due to e-cigarettes is lower than by cigarettes, but, as for inhalation, e-cigarettes produce compounds that combustible cigarettes don't, with unknown health effects," Jordt told Gizmodo by email.
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The use of e-cigarettes has spiked The use of e-cigarettes has spiked: the percentage of US adults who smoke e-cigs rose to 8.5 percent in 2013 from 3.3 percent in 2010.
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While only 11 percent of those who never tried e-cigarettes at the initial survey later tried smoking, 40 percent of those who had already tried e-cigarettes went on to try a cigarette.
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As the Verge reports, the FDA will look at e-cigarettes' marketing and ingredients, plus whether e-cigarettes affect the likelihood that tobacco users will quit smoking and the likelihood that nonsmokers will smoke.
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But they did not show that using e-cigarettes caused teens to move on to tobacco, only that the use of e-cigarettes was associated with later smoking of at least one traditional cigarette.
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Her organization, and most other public health groups also support a flavor ban on e-cigarettes and excise taxes on tobacco and e-cigarettes, which have been shown to reduce sales, especially to youths.
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Compared with youth who never viewed ads, middle school students who said they saw newspaper ads for e-cigarettes "most of the time" or "always" were 87 percent more likely to use e-cigarettes.
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A spike in teen use of e-cigarettes has prompted the Trump administration to draft new rules that would temporarily remove all flavored e-cigarettes from the market until the FDA can review their safety.
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WASHINGTON, Sept 12 (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is considering a ban on flavored e-cigarettes in response to an "epidemic" of young people using e-cigarettes, the agency's leader said on Wednesday.
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Because of year-over-year spikes in the use of e-cigarettes among minors, the Food and Drug Administration is expected to soon announce measures that could involve banning most flavored e-cigarettes, including mint.
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It asserts that e-cigarettes are only 5 percent as harmful as traditional cigarettes, a conclusion that some American experts say has been lost in the United States in the rush to condemn e-cigarettes.
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Much of the confusion stems from public health agencies and nonprofits that peddle misleading or outright incorrect information about the threat e-cigarettes represent, often lumping e-cigarettes in with much more dangerous tobacco products.
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The positive answers were particularly prevalent when it came to using e-cigarettes as a smoking cessation tool: when specifically asked about quitting smoking, 54 percent of doctors mentioned e-cigarettes as a potential option.
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To this end, we should allow that experimenting with conventional e-cigarettes is almost certainly less harmful than experimenting with illegal drugs, while also helping teenagers understand that using e-cigarettes is not without risks.
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But these studies did not show that using e-cigarettes caused teens to move on to tobacco, only that the use of e-cigarettes was associated with later smoking of at least one traditional cigarette.
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TOBACCO VS E-CIGARETTES Juul Labs, in which tobacco giant Altria Group Inc owns a 35% stake, is facing increased scrutiny in the United States, its home market, as teen use of e-cigarettes surges.
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Related: Flavored e-cigarettes sweetly lure kids into vaping and also mislead them to dismiss danger, studies suggest The FDA is currently updating the list to include ingredients that might be found in e-cigarettes.
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At the very minimum, all flavored e-cigarettes, including mint and menthol, should be removed immediately because we know one of the primary reasons youth use e-cigarettes is because they come in enticing flavors.
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US regulators are considering whether to ban all flavored e-cigarettes, which some consider particularly attractive to young users, after nine deaths and 530 cases of lung injury were linked to vaping and e-cigarettes.
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Would you ever work in the industry again, in e-cigarettes?
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Those in favor of e-cigarettes say this renormalization is unlikely.
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And conventional cigarettes left 10 times more nicotine than e-cigarettes.
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E-cigarettes are more popular than conventional cigarettes, the report found.
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The truth about e-cigarettes will take longer to tease out.
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Their research on e-cigarettes could enhance vapour products for pot.
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Outlawing e-cigarettes will just drive people to the black market.
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"No one should use e-cigarettes or any other tobacco product."
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E-cigarettes are thought to be generally safer than traditional cigarettes.
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Other brands of e-cigarettes are called MyBlu, KandyPens, and Suorin.
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After that study, the FDA banned the sale of e-cigarettes.
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It could also bring forward its plans to regulate e-cigarettes.
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E-cigarettes were the most commonly used type of flavored tobacco.
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What are the toxicants in e-cigarettes that aren't in cigarettes?
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Studies that group all e-cigarettes together may therefore be misguided.
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This doesn't mean e-cigarettes will go away anytime soon, though.
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The new evidence doesn't mean cigarettes are safer than e-cigarettes.
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Since 2013, I've had some degree of success with e-cigarettes.
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Last year, Beijing banned the sale of e-cigarettes to minors.
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JUUL is one of the hottest e-cigarettes on the market.
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She claimed teens using e-cigarettes were already smoking conventional cigarettes.
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The impulse to remove e-cigarettes from the market is understandable.
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Brazil, Singapore and Thailand, among others, have banned e-cigarettes outright.
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That increase is mainly due to the popularity of e-cigarettes.
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Gottlieb has changed his stance on e-cigarettes in recent months.
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Many teens and adults use e-cigarettes as well as cigarettes.
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Public health advocates should give consumers the facts about e-cigarettes.
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And reports of a possible nationwide ban on some e-cigarettes.
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There were other attempts at early e-cigarettes over the years.
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In addition, "dual use" of cigarettes and e-cigarettes is troubling.
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The administration has separately recommended that people not use e-cigarettes.
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Meantime, public health groups say flavors attract kids to e-cigarettes.
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Advocates of e-cigarettes compare them to nicotine gum and patches.
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E-cigarettes have existed in a regulatory gray area for years.
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Currently, there are no authorized e-cigarettes on the U.S. market.
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However, e-cigarettes would later prove attractive and addictive to teenagers.
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Debbie and Len are urging kids to stop using e-cigarettes.
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But e-cigarettes still contain highly addictive nicotine and many toxins.
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People can generally use their e-cigarettes without worry of explosions.
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Many consumers are confused about the health implications of e-cigarettes.
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The first won't sell you e-cigarettes unless you are 21.
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One in 5 high schoolers use e-cigarettes, the CDC reported.
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E-cigarettes may not be as harmless as many people think.
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The military has banned e-cigarettes from the exchanges on bases.
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Roughly 10% of the patients reported using just nicotine e-cigarettes.
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E-cigarettes vaporize nicotine or other liquid substances that users inhale.
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The most common combination was e-cigarettes and traditional combustible cigarettes.
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Findings: This year, NYTS asked teens why they smoked e-cigarettes.
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New Jersey's law makes disposable e-cigarettes illegal to sell. Gov.
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"If they use e-cigarettes regularly, that's probably similar," he said.
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The Trump administration is readying a ban on flavored e-cigarettes.
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The company announced it would stop selling e-cigarettes in October.
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Go deeper: Trump administration plans ban of most flavored e-cigarettes
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Regulators are now looking to tighten the rules governing e-cigarettes.
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And among high school vapers, 68% reported using flavored e-cigarettes.
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The lung illness, however, is related to e-cigarettes in general.
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It's unclear what role e-cigarettes have played in the illnesses.
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Overall, research on e-cigarettes' health effects is still highly incomplete.
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Several states passed legislation prohibiting the sale of flavored e-cigarettes.
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Multiple studies have already proven e-cigarettes provide significant health gains.
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It wasn't clear whether e-cigarettes would catch on with smokers.
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Altria introduced its MarkTen e-cigarettes and acquired the GreenSmoke brand.
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Some health advocates still think there's an opportunity for e-cigarettes.
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Tobacco companies claim flavored e-cigarettes help adults quit traditional cigarettes.
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Trump was asked about the rise of e-cigarettes and kids.
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Vaping The Trump administration is working to ban flavored e-cigarettes.
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But that's not who has been buying e-cigarettes in mass.
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The great vape debate The world is divided over e-cigarettes.
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Iqos technology is different from the e-cigarettes conceived in Shenzhen.
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The FDA was slated to start reviewing e-cigarettes last summer.
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An effort to ban flavored e-cigarettes failed earlier this year.
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E-cigarettes can help smokers to switch and quit smoking cigarettes.
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The CDC still advises that people should avoid using e-cigarettes.
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"Nicotine [in e-cigarettes] does the same thing as [combustible] cigarettes," said Neal Benowitz, a professor of medicine at the University of California San Francisco who's been studying the link between e-cigarettes and heart health.
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The agency is expected later this week to announce a ban on sales of flavored e-cigarettes in convenience stores and gas stations and strengthen the requirements for age verification of online sales of e-cigarettes.
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The report recommends that e-cigarettes be incorporated into existing smoke-free policies, including preventing youth from accessing e-cigarettes, implementing price and tax policies that discourage use and encouraging federal regulation of e-cigarette marketing.
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"It allows the commonly-understood language of Congress's 30-year old no-smoking statute to be stretched into a ban on e-cigarettes — even though e-cigarettes involve no combustion and produce no smoke," he said.
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While they found no direct evidence that e-cigarettes prompted more people to make the decision to try and quit, the team did find that as more people used e-cigarettes, more people also successfully stopped smoking.
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E-cigarettes sales grew to an estimated $3.5 billion in 2015 In April 2014, the FDA first proposed bringing e-cigarettes and other nontraditional tobacco products under its authority, including cigars, hookahs, nicotine gels and pipe tobacco.
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It also calls on the Food and Drug Administration to implement its authority and regulate the manufacturing, marketing, and distribution of e-cigarettes and to include e-cigarettes in policies and programs related to conventional cigarette smoking.
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On Tuesday, Michigan became the first state to ban sales of all flavored e-cigarettes in an effort to stop teen vaping, and San Francisco voted to end sales and distribution of all e-cigarettes in June.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a formal warning on Friday against the use of e-cigarettes, recommending users do not buy bootlegged e-cigarettes or modify vaping products or substances, per a press release.
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They failed to scientifically demonstrate, as required by federal law, that benefits for adult smokers who may quit thanks to e-cigarettes are not offset by a new generation of nonsmokers becoming addicted to smoking e-cigarettes.
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Federal law prohibits the sale of e-cigarettes to people under the age of 18, but more than 2 million middle and high school students were current users of e-cigarettes in 2017, according to the FDA.
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Federal law prohibits the sale of e-cigarettes to people under the age of 18, but more than 2 million middle and high school students were current users of e-cigarettes in 16.23, according to the FDA.
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Regulatory authority over e-cigarettes Since e-cigarettes entered the market in Europe in 2006, demand increased from those hoping to quit cigarettes to those who have never smoked, including an unusually high number of young people.
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"We don't know what Americans now think about e-cigarettes," he says.
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E-cigarettes can have different flavoring and solvents, as well as nicotine.
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One trial compared e-cigarettes with nicotine patches for helping people quit.
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But e-cigarettes are strongly associated with smoking in these age groups.
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This made e-cigarettes a cheaper option than traditional cigarettes, Till said.
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By contrast, fewer than 5 percent of adults currently use e-cigarettes.
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Gottlieb believes in e-cigarettes as a way to help adult smokers.
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Doctors have consequently continued to wonder how truly helpful e-cigarettes are.
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E-cigarettes are new, so information about their effects is still scarce.
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Since e-cigarettes like the Juul contain nicotine, they're actually highly addictive.
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The FDA said it would delay regulation of e-cigarettes until 2022.
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Today's study is part of a vigorous debate about e-cigarettes' safety.
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An earlier study also linked e-cigarettes to changes in oxidative stress.
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Research has showed that e-cigarettes have become a problem for children.
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Kids are vaping, and Juul is the biggest source of e-cigarettes.
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The FDA is targeting retailers of e-cigarettes, along with the manufacturers.
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Of course, as "cool" as JUULs may look, they're still e-cigarettes.
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He declined to comment on whether GSK is developing any e-cigarettes.
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The role of e-cigarettes as potential cessation devices is still debated.
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E-cigarettes are taking on TV, with the JUUL in the foreground.
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Researchers tracked 28,000 adults to tease out whether e-cigarettes exacerbate wheezing.
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Juul's e-cigarettes contain nicotine, the substance that makes cigarettes highly addictive.
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So while people stopped smoking cigarettes, they were still using e-cigarettes.
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On March 13, the FDA released its proposed guidelines for e-cigarettes.
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"This is not an outright ban on e-cigarettes," the statement reads.
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According to the CDC, 3 million teens used e-cigarettes last year.
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Countries around the world have banned e-cigarettes because of their concerns.
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However, the FDA said it's unclear whether e-cigarettes caused the seizures.
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In some instances, people were using e-cigarettes for the first time.
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It's unclear whether using e-cigarettes causes these seizures, the FDA says.
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In the meantime, the use of e-cigarettes is on the rise.
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Separately, city lawmakers in California also took aim at e-cigarettes Tuesday.
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Proponents of e-cigarettes claim the dangers of their products are minimal.
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They greatly discounted the potential for what e-cigarettes could be then.
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Of course, I'd rather no adolescents use either conventional or e-cigarettes.
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A federal ban on flavored e-cigarettes is reportedly in the offing.
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Such measures are not guaranteed to prevent teenagers from getting e-cigarettes.
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Research on the long-term health effects of e-cigarettes is limited.
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They are in smartphones, laptops, electric cars, airplanes and even e-cigarettes.
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The F.D.A. did not regulate e-cigarettes as tobacco products until 2016.
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However, they mistakenly believe e-cigarettes are "cool" and "safe," he added.
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More than 3.5 million teenagers said they used e-cigarettes in 2023.
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Our city recently took on the makers of e-cigarettes and won.
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It shows the percent of high school students who use e-cigarettes.
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C, the San Francisco measure to overturn a ban on e-cigarettes.
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It is different from e-cigarettes, which use a nicotine-laced liquid.
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The vapor produced by e-cigarettes contains no dangerous chemicals or carcinogens.
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"Juul is a new company and only sells e-cigarettes," said Soneji.
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As for e-cigarettes, If anything, use seems to be flattening out.
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When e-cigarettes contain nicotine, they can be addictive like traditional cigarettes.
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Tariffs on e-cigarettes aren't just an act of economic self-harm.
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"The users of [e-cigarettes] are exposed to several toxicants," Goniewicz said.
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Opponents say they attract kids and mask the harms of e-cigarettes.
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There's no data, however, on the long-term effects of e-cigarettes.
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In the absence of e-cigarettes, they, and others, may just smoke.
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The non-profit organisation will back the end to flavoured e-cigarettes.
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Juul says these features make its e-cigarettes satisfying for former smokers.
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The effort to ban flavored e-cigarettes has started picking up momentum.
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Potential threats to reproductive health are another recent strike against e-cigarettes.
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Limited evidence: E-cigarettes may be effective aids to help quit smoking.
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"Who are the smokers who could benefit" from e-cigarettes, he said.
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The company sells blu e-cigarettes, which come in various fruity flavors.
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They shrug off health concerns that are being raised about e-cigarettes.
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Key points for Wednesday night: don't bring backpacks, e-cigarettes or alcohol.
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E-cigarettes can also be used to deliver marijuana or other substances.
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Changing over to e-cigarettes, specifically Juul, allowed me to quit smoking.
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Trump first suggested a federal ban on flavored e-cigarettes in September.
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And a state judge temporarily blocked Michigan's ban on flavored e-cigarettes.
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Both states announced that they will stop sales of flavored e-cigarettes.
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In 2011, a mere 1.5 percent of high schoolers used e-cigarettes.
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Its competitors had nevertheless said they would still sell flavored e-cigarettes.
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Six people in have died from lung diseases linked to e-cigarettes.
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Several states and cities have begun to limit sales of e-cigarettes.
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E-cigarettes have also been linked to asthma, emphysema, and chronic bronchitis.
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AMERICA IS IN the grip of a health scare over e-cigarettes.
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On Wednesday, Michigan became the first state to ban flavored e-cigarettes.
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KROGER IS DISCONTINUING THE SALE OF E-CIGARETTES AT ALL STORES - BLOOMBERG
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He'd occasionally borrow their e-cigarettes in class or in the bathroom.
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Now the federal government is finally planning to ban flavored e-cigarettes.
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This did not include e-cigarettes, which tend to boast fruity flavors.
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Sometimes, K2 comes in liquid form to be vaporized in e-cigarettes.
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Several lawmakers suggested e-cigarettes should be completely removed from the market.
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For teens, e-cigarettes are unsafe and may start life-long addiction.
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The FDA's final rule to regulate e-cigarettes does precisely the opposite.
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Can the FDA's illogical and harmful crusade against e-cigarettes be stopped?
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Meanwhile, there has been a rise in young people using e-cigarettes.
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Juul and other e-cigarettes have been successfully marketed through social media.
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Most patients reported using e-cigarettes containing elements of marijuana, like THC.
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So far, there has never been a confirmed death from e-cigarettes.
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There was just one problem: The laws applied to nicotine e-cigarettes.
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"There is no question that e-cigarettes are not safe," says Fairchild.
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As in traditional cigarettes, the nicotine in e-cigarettes can be addictive.
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Do young people use e-cigarettes in a different way than adults?
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Norway bans the sale of e-cigarettes containing nicotine, as does Australia.
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Still, the use of e-cigarettes by youth is concerning, Gottlieb said.
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Some five million middle and high school students now use e-cigarettes.
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Rather than appear in film, celebrities and influencers regularly use e-cigarettes.
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That's a big jump in use among adolescent use of e-cigarettes.
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Those efforts did not appear to stem teens' appetites for e-cigarettes.
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E-cigarettes have been a divisive topic in the public health community.
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But the study also combined e-cigarettes with counseling and behavioral support.
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In a review of evidence on e-cigarettes commissioned by the government-backed authority Public Health England, experts said e-cigarettes could already be helping some 20,000 UK smokers a year to quit tobacco - and possibly many more.
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By beginning to buy e-cigarettes 'off the books' from black market traders, consumers will become effectively invisible to legitimate vendors and to health and regulatory authorities that wish to monitor use of e-cigarettes in the population.
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While Michigan will be the first state to ban flavored e-cigarettes, San Francisco became the first city to do so in June, after legislators voted to stop the sale and distribution of all types of e-cigarettes.
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"Nicotine [in e-cigarettes] does the same thing as [combustible] cigarettes," Neal Benowitz, a professor of medicine at the University of California San Francisco who's been studying the link between e-cigarettes and heart health, told Vox previously.
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The US Food and Drug Administration sent a warning letter on Monday to Juul, the leading manufacturer of e-cigarettes, specifically addressing the company's marketing tactics, which have stated e-cigarettes are a safer alternative to regular cigarettes.
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Los Angeles Considering or working on a ban Announced or enacted ban on flavored e-cigarettes Announced or enacted ban on all e-cigarettes Four-month ban on all vaping products By The New York Times In 2015, the agency finally sent its proposed rule — for oversight of all e-cigarettes and tobacco products — to the Office of Management and Budget for final approval.
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With new regulations "beginning to take hold across the nation raising the age of tobacco purchase (including e-cigarettes) to 21, we might see some changes to adolescent use of e-cigarettes and other tobacco products," Barrington-Trimis said.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration must review e-cigarettes before they can be sold, a federal judge has ruled, striking down an agency policy that allowed e-cigarettes to remain on the market until 2022 without government regulation.
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A spate of vaping-related deaths and illnesses and high rates of teen use of e-cigarettes has triggered a ban on the sale of flavouring e-cigarettes in the United States where Imperial makes 13% of its profits.
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The group had tested e-cigarettes and nicotine liquids made by Juul and over a dozen other companies and found levels of formaldehyde, a carcinogen created when e-cigarettes containing certain chemicals are heated, that exceeded the California limit.
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The Trump administration Los Angeles Considering or working on a ban Announced or enacted ban on flavored e-cigarettes Announced or enacted ban on all e-cigarettes Four-month ban on all vaping products Wash. Mont. Ore. Mass. Mich.
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It would follow similar bans by Michigan, which this month became the first state to prohibit the sales of most flavored e-cigarettes, and San Francisco, which in June became the first major American city to ban e-cigarettes.
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The emergency order, which also includes a temporary ban on marijuana-based e-cigarettes, was instituted following a nationwide spate of vaping-related illnesses, in which 278 Massachusetts residents are suspected to have suffered pulmonary injuries from e-cigarettes.
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Gottlieb called the uptick in use of flavored e-cigarettes among teens "astonishing."
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The team found that by 2017, more adults developed feelings about e-cigarettes.
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The use of e-cigarettes and vaping will also be banned inside parks.
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The only thing we extended was the application deadlines on the e-cigarettes.
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The report published last week urged cigarette smokers to switch to e-cigarettes.
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The ordinance also applies to flavored tobacco products in addition to e-cigarettes.
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The survey began to track e-cigarettes for the first time last year.
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In 2018, more than 3.6 million middle and high schoolers used e-cigarettes.
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This could include prescribing medically licensed e-cigarettes to assist smoking cessation efforts.
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It was into this mix that e-cigarettes arrived about a decade ago.
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The legal minimum age to purchase e-cigarettes in the US is 18.
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"Not addressing menthol in e-cigarettes was a huge missed opportunity," she says.
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All the cases involve e-cigarettes, but beyond that, investigators don't know much.
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President Trump even called for the FDA to ban flavored e-cigarettes entirely.
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The companies fought back, saying they weren't actually marketing e-cigarettes that way.
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All that said, e-cigarettes may be significantly less harmful than conventional cigarettes.
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Plus, the findings might not carry over to other brands of e-cigarettes.
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Also, the e-cigarettes in the study did not have nicotine or flavors.
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His death is a sad reminder that e-cigarettes are still largely unregulated.
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The details: The FDA's order targeted both makers and sellers of e-cigarettes.
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And now the same third parties are helping vaping interests protect e-cigarettes.
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E-cigarettes were the most popular tobacco product among the children and adolescents.
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All major tobacco companies sell e-cigarettes as well as the traditional variety.
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But Gottlieb's comments threatening to ban e-cigarettes entirely represent a dramatic escalation.
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Under federal law, sales of e-cigarettes to anyone under 18 is prohibited.
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The company's hometown of San Francisco banned sales of e-cigarettes last month.
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As a family physician, I often have patients ask me about e-cigarettes.
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Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) introduced legislation to restrict flavored e-cigarettes in March.
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Go deeper: Tobacco use is soaring among U.S. kids, driven by e-cigarettes
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E-cigarettes fall somewhere in between, though it's still not entirely clear where.
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According to the news site, 800 businesses in San Francisco sell e-cigarettes.
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E-cigarettes have also raised safety concerns because of their lithium ion batteries.
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Most of the time, kids got their hands on e-cigarettes at home.
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It did not ask whether they had been around people using e-cigarettes.
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"Such incidents involving faulty e-cigarettes are happening with alarming regularity," Blumenthal wrote.
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E-cigarettes heat nicotine-laced liquid into vapor but do not contain tobacco.
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E-cigarettes are less risky than traditional ones, but bring their own challenges.
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The use of e-cigarettes by youth has increased sharply in recent years.
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The growing use of e-cigarettes has sharply divided American public health experts.
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E-cigarettes deliver nicotine without the harmful tar and chemicals that cause cancer.
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The administration has said the policy would include mint and menthol e-cigarettes.
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Go deeper: Rite Aid to halt sale of e-cigarettes and vaping products
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Meanwhile, English public health authorities actively promote the reduced dangers of e-cigarettes.
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The FDA is in the process of finalizing new rules for e-cigarettes.
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E-cigarettes heat a flavored nicotine liquid that turns into an inhalable vapor.
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E-cigarettes are becoming increasingly popular among young people, especially the brand Juul.
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California's suit alleges Juul illegally marketed to and sold e-cigarettes to minors.
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Ironically, a popular method to quit smoking cigarettes is to use e-cigarettes.
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Some e-cigarettes also produce formaldehyde, a chemical that can cause lung disease.
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E-cigarettes could one day be regulated as an over-the-counter drug.
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E-cigarettes have been a bone of contention in the public health community.
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Unlike a nicotine patch or gum, e-cigarettes are great-tasting and appealing.
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The case suggested that vegetable glycerine in e-cigarettes may be to blame.
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Over-regulating e-cigarettes, she said, could actually push teenagers back to smoking.
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So do e-cigarettes put teens at greater risk for picking up cigarettes?
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Among American teenagers, e-cigarettes are now the most commonly used tobacco product.
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The CDC is urging people to avoid using e-cigarettes amid the outbreak.
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San Francisco in June banned the sale and distribution of all e-cigarettes.
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Heart rates increase from inhaling nicotine in e-cigarettes, as does blood pressure.
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E-cigarettes are electronic devices that produce an aerosol by heating a liquid.
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E-cigarettes contain a small battery and deliver nicotine through an aerosol mist.
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Marijuana and e-cigarettes are now more popular than regular cigarettes among teens.
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Some 4803 million people under 18 reported using e-cigarettes, the agency said.
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E-cigarettes contain far fewer dangerous chemicals than those released in burning tobacco.
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It is the chemical in tobacco and e-cigarettes that binds the user.
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E-cigarettes might help people stop smoking combustible cigarettes, which are demonstrably deadly.
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Remember when e-cigarettes were supposed to be the safer way to smoke?
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Many of the studies on e-cigarettes focus on specific products, Adams said.
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He had hoped e-cigarettes could be a tool to help people quit.
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Many smokers who tried e-cigarettes wound up with sore throats or coughs.
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Federal law prohibits the sale of e-cigarettes to people younger than 18.
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The ban applies to manufacture, import, sale, advertisement, and distribution of e-cigarettes.
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Despite the criticism he faced, Gottlieb has remained largely supportive of e-cigarettes.
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States should not be banning e-cigarettes, but instead implementing strict safety regulations.
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Walmart is not the first major retailer to halt sales of e-cigarettes.
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But it's been three years since the F.D.A. gained jurisdiction over e-cigarettes.
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" — JIMMY KIMMEL "Even e-cigarettes were like 'Trump is having a bad week.
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The FDA regulates aspects of e-cigarettes such as labeling, ingredients and marketing.
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Asking if e-cigarettes are safe in a vacuum is close to meaningless.
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Vaping activists aren&apost just fighting for their right to use e-cigarettes.
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MICHIGAN JUDGE ISSUES INJUNCTION TO BLOCK STATES BAN ON FLAVORED E-CIGARETTES - AP
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Better yet, e-cigarettes seem to boost users' chances of quitting smoking altogether.
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Juul currently does not offer different nicotine levels like some other e-cigarettes.
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The agency also doesn't advise smokers to try using e-cigarettes to quit.
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The age increase will cover cigarettes, e-cigarettes, and all other tobacco products.
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In the United States, many television networks have dropped advertisements for e-cigarettes.
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More than 30 countries ban e-cigarettes outright; India halted sales this month.
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Since arriving in the U.S. in 2007, e-cigarettes have been largely unregulated.
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The hope was that e-cigarettes would rejuvenate sales at a combined company.
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Now, the megastore has revealed it will no longer be carrying e-cigarettes.
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What&aposs more, e-cigarettes don&apost seem to help many smokers quit.
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Dr. Scott Gottlieb embraced e-cigarettes as newly minted FDA Commissioner in 2017.
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The state has taken other steps to limit children's access to e-cigarettes.
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The state will also put a 20% tax on e-cigarettes, Zucker said.
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Again, that's the group that was supposedly the intended targets for e-cigarettes.
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Still, studies show an overwhelming majority of teens are vaping flavored e-cigarettes.
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Go deeper: "Significant increase" in teens vaping menthol or mint flavored e-cigarettes
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But as use of e-cigarettes has risen, traditional smoking has gone down.
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Newsom says he doesn't have the executive authority to ban flavored e-cigarettes.
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To try to understand what effect e-cigarettes may have on public health in the future, the committee modeled several scenarios — and they all hinged on the effect e-cigarettes had on smokers quitting (see No. 1 on this list).
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The United States has already announced plans to remove flavoured e-cigarettes from stores, citing alarming growth in teenage use of the products India also discontinued the sale of e-cigarettes in September, warning of an "epidemic" among young people.
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Juul, Logic, a unit of Japan Tobacco Inc, Altria, which makes e-cigarettes under the MarkTen brand, British American Tobacco Plc (BAT) and Imperial Brands Plc, the maker of blu e-cigarettes, all said they supported efforts to reduce youth access.
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" The FDA also reports that 16 percent "of high school and 5.3 percent of middle school students were current users of e-cigarettes in 2015, making e-cigarettes the most commonly used tobacco product among youth for the second consecutive year.
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A steady rise in the proportion of adolescents using e-cigarettes in recent years has sparked alarm among tobacco control advocates who fear e-cigarettes will create a new generation of nicotine addicts who may eventually switch to conventional cigarettes.
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Meredith Berkman, co-founder of Parents Against Vaping E-cigarettes, said on Thursday that Juul's move was "too little, too late," adding that she expects teenagers will simply flock to menthol-flavored e-cigarettes if mint is removed from sale.
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Meredith Berkman, co-founder of Parents Against Vaping E-cigarettes, said on Thursday that Juul's move was "too little, too late," adding that she expects teenagers will simply flock to menthol-flavored e-cigarettes if mint is removed from sale.
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In an editorial for the Journal of the American Medical Association published in March, Glantz writes that e-cigarettes may increase risk of heart attack, stroke, and respiratory disease, perhaps because of the "toxicants" that e-cigarettes' aerosol delivery introduces.
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Ironically, in May 2020, when the FDA regulation of nicotine-containing e-cigarettes goes into effect, the states which have banned flavored e-cigarettes will be the only ones in which flavored e-liquids consumed in their state are completely unregulated.
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Utah San Francisco The Trump administration Los Angeles Considering or working on a ban Announced or enacted ban on flavored e-cigarettes Announced or enacted ban on all e-cigarettes Four-month ban on all vaping products Wash. Mont. Ore. Mass.
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"If we find that children start surging into tobacco-flavored e-cigarettes or if we find marketing practices that target children and try to attract them into tobacco-flavored e-cigarettes, we will engage in enforcement actions there also," he said.
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Smith wrote that e-cigarettes don't contain actual tobacco, so therefore "every electronic cigarette available on the worldwide market is 'flavored,'" and even the e-cigarettes advertised as having a basic "tobacco flavor" had to have that flavor synthetically added.
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No one knows the short- or long-term health effects of e-cigarettes, but we do know what needs to be done to protect our children and the public at large: Remove all flavored tobacco products and regulate e-cigarettes immediately.
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Now, it's true e-cigarettes were never exactly a smoking hot sector for funding.
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About 13 percent of high school students use e-cigarettes or other vaping devices.
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One in five high school students uses e-cigarettes, according to the surgeon general.
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The regulations also ban the sale of e-cigarettes to anyone under age 18.
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Japan Tobacco International, which makes Logic e-cigarettes, has not made its plan public.
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ITC , India's leading cigarette maker which also sells e-cigarettes, also did not respond.
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The new report did not address e-cigarettes or tobacco products other than cigarettes.
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While safer than cigarettes, e-cigarettes come with their own set of health concerns.
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I know we don't understand the long-term health consequences of using e-cigarettes.
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"E-cigarettes are sold in normal shops, but we have strict rules," Paaso said.
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The newest threat E-cigarettes have rapidly grown in popularity among teens, Volkow said.
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That's an impressive finding — making e-cigarettes look even more promising for smoking cessation.
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That study found about 70% of tweets about e-cigarettes came from social bots.
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Recent regulatory changes gave the agency jurisdiction over nicotine delivery devices like e-cigarettes.
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The potential U.S. store would not sell fruity flavored e-cigarettes, the person said.
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"We do know that e-cigarettes do not emit a harmless aerosol," he explained.
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And he said getting the authority to regulate e-cigarettes is also a priority.
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Millions of teens are exposed to ads for e-cigarettes online and in stores.
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It looks at the risks unique to the soup of chemicals in e-cigarettes.
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People who used both e-cigarettes and cigarettes didn't reduce their risk at all.
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All e-cigarettes currently on the market will eventually need to undergo FDA review.
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He's also described e-cigarettes as useful tools to help adult smokers quit smoking.
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More than half of the minors who use e-cigarettes get them this way.
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Looser regulation was expected to foster innovation in e-cigarettes and other nicotine products.
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This isn't the first time health advocates have highlighted the toxicity of e-cigarettes.
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While commissioner, Gottlieb championed e-cigarettes as a way to help adults stop smoking.
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SAN FRANCISCO BOARD OF SUPERVISORS VOTE TO BAN SALE OF E-CIGARETTES IN CITY
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Willard blamed e-cigarettes, especially Juul, and high gas prices, for the steeper drop.
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""We do know that many of the chemicals present in e-cigarettes are toxic.
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The industry opposes this and claims e-cigarettes are a "tobacco harm reduction" tool.
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By contrast, e-cigarettes "can look and smell like candy to children," Nordt added.
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The health consequences associated with tobacco products -- and most recently e-cigarettes -- remain clear.
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The FDA also proposed stricter age-verification requirements for online sales of e-cigarettes.
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E-cigarettes, or vaping, work by heating a liquid containing nicotine until it vaporizes.
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But it's still much easier for teens to get e-cigarettes than traditional cigs.
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But others argue that e-cigarettes may be a gateway to conventional cigarette use.
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But I am somewhat swayed by the argument of e-cigarettes for harm reduction.
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The rules should help curb addiction to nicotine from e-cigarettes among young people.
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And Massachusetts and several California cities have taken steps to outlaw e-cigarettes altogether.
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In a statement, Gottlieb acknowledged these characteristics may make e-cigarettes attractive to youth.
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San Francisco, where Juul is based, banned the sale of e-cigarettes in June.
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E-cigarettes let users inhale nicotine without the toxicity that comes from burning tobacco.
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That is what has made the FDA's delay in regulating e-cigarettes so frustrating.
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And for many users, e-cigarettes are a clear pathway to traditional cigarette use.
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As a result, e-cigarettes are now the most popular tobacco product among teens.
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As we discussed above he is notably also stepping up oversight of e-cigarettes.
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Except most young smokers aren't using e-cigarettes to cut down on traditional smoking.
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E-cigarettes like the Juul are sometimes called "ENDS," for electronic nicotine delivery systems.
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Currently, 1 in 5 high school students uses e-cigarettes, Dr. Jerome Adams said.
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In September, the FDA started a campaign to prevent kids from using e-cigarettes.
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" Presser said patients often ask him about their use of e-cigarettes or "vaping.
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Kalhan said some e-cigarettes produce formaldehyde, a chemical that can cause lung disease.
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A year later, 38% of the teens admitted using e-cigarettes and 21% smoked.
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As for e-cigarettes, buy a brand that has safety mechanisms built into them.
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Media reports have chronicled how kids are embracing e-cigarettes, especially the brand JUUL.
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Context: E-cigarettes are widely marketed for smoking cessation (although its effectiveness remains uncertain).
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ITC, India's leading cigarette maker which also sells e-cigarettes, also did not respond.
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E-cigarettes do not contain tobacco, and instead heat nicotine-laced liquid into vapor.
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Andrew Cuomo announced a ban on all flavored e-cigarettes, except tobacco and menthol.
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Others used older, first generation e-cigarettes that were poor substitutes for nicotine delivery.
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In 2018, 27.5% of youths reported using e-cigarettes, compared with 20.8% in 2018.
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The Trump administration supports a ban on the sale of most flavored e-cigarettes.
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Some used e-cigarettes with only nicotine, while others primarily used marijuana-based products.
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This week, we reported that the F.D.A. chief announced new regulations on e-cigarettes.
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Several major tobacco companies that produce e-cigarettes declined to comment on the report.
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There has been no agency announcement yet regarding limits on nicotine in e-cigarettes.
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Some have switched to e-cigarettes since the proposed ordinance would not cover them.
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Do you think e-cigarettes are more harmful or beneficial to teenagers, and why?
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Going too easy on e-cigarettes may create a new generation of nicotine addicts.
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Our health team has answers to questions about the health effects of e-cigarettes.
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No umbrellas, backpacks, large bags, alcoholic beverages, drones or e-cigarettes will be allowed.
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Sadreameli said it's incorrect to call e-cigarettes a safer alternative to traditional cigarettes.
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Australia has banned the sale and marketing of liquid nicotine used in e-cigarettes.
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Good intentions aside, turning to natural gas, like e-cigarettes, can be habit-forming.
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NuMark, a subsidiary of Altria, sells two e-cigarettes: Mark Ten and Green Smoke.
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Meanwhile, major retailers such as Walmart, Costco and Kroger have stopped selling e-cigarettes.
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In December, the Massachusetts legislature passed a 75 percent tax on all e-cigarettes.
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The study estimates that six million adults were introduced to nicotine via e-cigarettes.
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E-cigarettes in China: Regulators in Beijing have banned online sales of vaping products.
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It urged stronger action to prevent young people from getting access to e-cigarettes.
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He helped guide Philip Morris away from traditional cigarettes and more toward e-cigarettes.
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Now, federal officials are grappling with a new challenge — how to regulate e-cigarettes.
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He intended to ban flavored e-cigarettes before changing his mind earlier this year.
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Regulatory scrutiny of vaping is welcome: e-cigarettes are not good for your health.
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In 2016, the FDA expanded its authority to all tobacco products -- including e-cigarettes.
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About 1 in 3 high school students in Massachusetts uses e-cigarettes, Healey said.
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E-cigarettes have exploded in popularity over the past few years, particularly among teens.
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Flavored e-cigarettes have fueled what government regulators are calling a teen vaping epidemic.
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In September 2019, the Trump administration declared a permanent ban on flavored e-cigarettes.
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"The more we learn about e-cigarettes, the more dangerous they look," Glantz said.
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On Tuesday morning, China said it would also place new restrictions on e-cigarettes.
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Health regulators in India instituted a wholesale ban on all e-cigarettes last week.
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Most cases involve marijuana, though the outbreak has nonetheless heightened alarm around e-cigarettes.
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The legislation would also subject e-cigarettes sold online to local tobacco taxes. Rep.
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An initiative to reduce the use of e-cigarettes by teenagers led to compromise.
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Juul has framed its e-cigarettes as an option for adults looking to switch.
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They've stepped up their attacks as more teenagers have started using the e-cigarettes.
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Elsewhere on the spectrum include products like e-cigarettes, which deliver nicotine-laced vapor.
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Reuters reports that an executive order prohibits selling, producing, importing, or advertising e-cigarettes.
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Juul and other nicotine e-cigarettes will come under FDA regulation in May 2020.
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Walmart decided to stop selling e-cigarettes because of the "regulatory complexity and uncertainty".
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Young people are highly vulnerable to nicotine, the addictive drug in many e-cigarettes.
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The White House is also cracking down on the sale of flavored e-cigarettes.
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So far, e-cigarettes have often fallen outside the purview of existing tobacco laws.
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For example, what makes e-cigarettes so appealing to teenagers in the first place?
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In his letter, Romney said Azar should consider whether e-cigarettes meet this threshold.
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So far, two states, Michigan and New York, have decided to ban e-cigarettes.
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However, they did warn people away from purchasing illicit e-cigarettes on the street.
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Amazon said e-cigarettes are not allowed to be listed or sold on Amazon.co.
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It also warned more than 1,300 retailers for illegally selling e-cigarettes to minors.
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Joe Murillo's job is to get Juul regulatory permission to keep selling e-cigarettes.
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But a looming regulatory deadline could remove many e-cigarettes from the market altogether.
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Adam certainly thought vaping was safe when he started using e-cigarettes, he said.
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The UK and US have ruled sale of e-cigarettes to adults is legal.
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In 2016, the United States prohibited the use of e-cigarettes on commercial flights.
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Youths cite flavors as one of the top reasons they started using e-cigarettes.
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The Trump administration is under pressure to implement new restrictions on flavored e-cigarettes.
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Andrew Cuomo on Sunday announced efforts to outlaw the sale of flavored e-cigarettes.
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More research is needed, particularly on the long-term health effects of e-cigarettes.
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What we don't know is about dual use of both e-cigarettes and cigarettes.
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Because the immediate harms of e-cigarettes appear to be minimal compared with regular cigarettes, many researchers agree that there's a compelling case to be made for e-cigarettes as a harm-reduction tool for heavy smokers, at least in the short term.
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The results add weight to the claims that e-cigarettes could help some people quit cigarettes, but there's still a lot we don't know about the long term health effects of e-cigarettes, or how to keep millions of teens from using them.
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" At the moment, this ordinance essentially bans all e-cigarettes from being sold in or shipped to people in the city, because, as acting FDA commissioner Ned Sharpless noted earlier this month: "There are no authorized e-cigarettes currently on the market.
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According to an August 2018 study "How Do Adolescents Get Their E-Cigarettes and Other Electronic Vaping Devices?" published in the American Journal of Health Promotion, minors get most of their e-cigarettes from adults who are old enough to buy them.
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"The elevated risk of cigarette use uptake in young populations who use e-cigarettes is strong and consistent, and this risk is amplified by the presence or amount of nicotine in e-cigarettes," Leventhal, who wasn't involved in the study, said by email.
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As the number of teens vaping has reached record numbers, the FDA has proposed rules that would limit the sales of flavored e-cigarettes to age-restricted, in-person locations, and require a heightened age verification process for online retailers selling e-cigarettes.
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The MHRA said it would "continue to encourage companies to voluntarily submit medicines licence applications for e-cigarettes and other nicotine containing products as medicines" and hoped to see more e-cigarettes and next generation nicotine delivery products submit applications in future.
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Overall, the Stanford team found that 34 percent of questions had to do with specific effects of e-cigarettes, 27 percent were about the general safety of vaping, and 19 percent were about e-cigarettes as a smoking cessation or harm reduction tool.
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"Because of the variety of chemicals that are present in e-cigarettes or vaping liquids and may be added to e-cigarettes or vaping liquid as well as the diversity of products in circulation, laboratory analysis may be complex, but these are ongoing."
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Disposable e-cigarettes also are still allowed under the federal guidelines, a loophole that teenagers have begun to exploit by switching from refillable e-cigarettes like Juul to disposable varieties like Puff Bars, which come packaged with nicotine cartridges and cannot be reloaded.
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In Massachusetts, the results of the marketing campaigns and tactics from Juul and other e-cigarette companies are more than 50% of high school students saying they've tried e-cigarettes, with another 30% saying they've used e-cigarettes in the past 30 days.
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Because of the variety of chemicals that are present in e-cigarettes or vaping liquids and may be added to e-cigarettes or vaping liquid as well as the diversity of products in circulation, laboratory analysis may be complex, but these are ongoing.
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Trump to hold e-cigarette meeting on Friday Meanwhile, according to the White House, President Donald Trump has scheduled a meeting for Friday related to a separate issue around e-cigarettes: the rise in youth use and how e-cigarettes should be regulated.
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Related: Public Health Experts Say Tobacco Industry Up to Old Tricks in Pushing E-Cigarettes Sales of e-cigarettes in the US reached $24 billion last year, according to Wells Fargo Securities, and may surpass those of traditional cigarettes within a decade.
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Even if e-cigarettes are safer than regular cigarettes, that doesn't mean they're totally safe.
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Could the availability of e-cigarettes entice former smokers to get hooked on nicotine again?
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The regulations add labeling requirements for e-cigarettes and set limits on nicotine concentrations levels.
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The company will stop selling sweet-flavored e-cigarettes, which have become popular among teenagers.
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So they found there was "insufficient evidence" that e-cigarettes can help people quit smoking.
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E-cigarettes, available in Indonesia since at least 2013, are a small but growing market.
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Smokers are dying, quitting or switching to e-cigarettes — and not the ones Altria makes.
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The measure does not ban the use of e-cigarettes among people 21 and older.
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Abbott on Friday signed the legislation, which covers cigarettes, e-cigarettes or other tobacco products.
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Health groups aren't the only voices urging FDA to launch strict regulations on e-cigarettes.
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Most e-cigarettes sold elsewhere use nicotine-laced liquid, which is heavily regulated in Japan.
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On Wednesday, the New England Journal of Medicine published another randomized trial on e-cigarettes.
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Also, there were 1.5 million more teens using e-cigarettes in 2018 than in 2017.
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The rise of e-cigarettes led the industry back to this old idea, Ling says.
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That gave the industry more time to sell essentially unregulated e-cigarettes and e-liquids.
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E-cigarettes might help some people quit smoking, but they are not the only option.
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Public Health England says that e-cigarettes are 95 percent less harmful than combustible cigarettes.
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A number of factors could be contributing to the rise in popularity of e-cigarettes.
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The problem is that E-cigarettes are much better at creating addicts than stopping them.
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Many studies have said smoking e-cigarettes presents similar health risks to smoking regular cigarettes.
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But 24% of high school students reported using e-cigarettes in the past 22015 days.
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The number of high school students using e-cigarettes surged last year, federal data shows.
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E-cigarettes vaporize a liquid containing nicotine, the addictive stimulant that gives smokers a rush.
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Regulators do not restrict companies from using this kind of marketing to promote e-cigarettes.
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Internationally, however, the scientific community is divided over e-cigarettes as a nicotine replacement therapy.
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Another study, published last week, suggests that e-cigarettes may expose users to toxic metals.
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Were they modifying e-cigarettes intended for nicotine, or using vaporizers designed for cannabis products?
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But he worries that people will see the results and think e-cigarettes are safe.
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It's no wonder: the packaging can make liquid nicotine refills for e-cigarettes look delicious.
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The researchers wondered whether e-cigarettes are recruiting youth who otherwise would never have smoked.
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The FDA's regulation of e-cigarettes has come under the spotlight as Juul's popularity surged.
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Click here to view original GIFUsing e-cigarettes is a great way to stop smoking.
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Unlike e-cigarettes and vaporizers, they don't rely on a nicotine-infused liquid ("e-juice").
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Taxes also would be extended to other tobacco products such as e-cigarettes with nicotine.
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It will take some time to accumulate this same sort of data for e-cigarettes.
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The FDA plans to eventually remove menthol cigarettes and e-cigarettes entirely from the market.
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Though nicotine can be addictive, e-cigarettes lack the chemicals and tars of burning tobacco.
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E-cigarettes sales grew to an estimated $3.5 billion in 2015, according to Wells Fargo.
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Evidence further suggests that e-cigarettes are a gateway to later cigarette use in teens.
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However, the FDA said it's unclear whether e-cigarettes caused the seizures in these cases.
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Test tube experiments may not reflect real human exposure to e-cigarettes, the researchers acknowledge.
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For the record, Air Canada has a zero-tolerance policy on e-cigarettes on board.
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Juul will also need to change minds that its e-cigarettes can actually be helpful.
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Health officials, including FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, blame flavors for attracting kids to e-cigarettes.
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Under this standard, the FDA may indeed protect Americans from the perils of e-cigarettes.
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The proposal would essentially end sales of e-cigarettes at gas stations and convenience stores.
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Local and state governments are tightening restrictions and in some cases, banning e-cigarettes outright.
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"We need to protect our kids from all tobacco products, including e-cigarettes," Adams said.
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The fundamental distinction between traditional cigarettes and e-cigarettes is the lack of combustible tobacco.
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If confirmed, Hahn will be stepping into a political battle over regulation of e-cigarettes.
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If confirmed, Hahn will be stepping into a political battle over regulation of e-cigarettes.
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Imperial Brands announced its myblu brand of e-cigarettes in a February 220 press release.
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In the US, President Donald Trump recently announced his intention to ban flavored e-cigarettes.
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Kalhan said some e-cigarettes also produce formaldehyde, a chemical that can cause lung disease.
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Some vaping advocates view e-cigarettes as a hero in the war against traditional smoking.
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Despite their sleek packaging, e-cigarettes still contain cancer-causing chemicals and highly addictive nicotine.
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E-cigarettes are unregulated tobacco products, and e-cigarette companies are making unproven health claims.
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But that review could take years, while flavored e-cigarettes will remain on the market.
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About 3.6 million middle and high school students said they used e-cigarettes in 2018.
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Use of e-cigarettes among adults increased to 3.2% in 2018 from 2.8% in 2017.
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The Trump administration in September announced it was readying a ban on flavored e-cigarettes.
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Also this month, the United States banned sales of e-cigarettes and cigars to minors.
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We still have a lot to learn about the public health impact of e-cigarettes.
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Electronic cigarettes, or e-cigarettes, have not been banned but may be in the future.
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Walmart said Friday that it planned to stop selling all e-cigarettes and vaping products.
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The boys' mothers co-founded an advocacy group last year, Parents Against Vaping e-cigarettes.
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More than one in four high school students use e-cigarettes, according to the CDC.
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Walmart is ending sales of electronic nicotine delivery products, such as vapes and e-cigarettes.
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"Switching to e-cigarettes does not mean quitting," said Folkenroth of the American Lung Association.
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In fact, researchers worry that e-cigarettes can be more nicotine-laden than traditional cigarettes.
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Juul's e-cigarettes resemble USB flash drives and work by vaporizing a nicotine-laced liquid.
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They are under pressure for marketing e-cigarettes to children, enticing them with fruit flavours.
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It said THC and e-cigarettes were not, and are not, offered on its platform.
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In "Vaporized," CNBC explores the raging debate: are e-cigarettes a curse or a cure?
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San Francisco Bans Sale of Juul and Other E-Cigarettes These Kids Know 'Stranger Things.
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Rite-Aid has stopped selling e-cigarettes, and CVS ended all tobacco sales in 2014.
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Dina Colombo AlessiMeredith BerkmanDorian FuhrmanThe writers are co-founders of Parents Against Vaping E-cigarettes.
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E-cigarettes notwithstanding, at least parents can worry less about their children's addiction to smartphones.
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And in 2013 the state drugs controller listed e-cigarettes and vaporizers as "unapproved drugs".
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E-cigarettes are slender, battery-powered devices that vaporize liquid nicotine to imitate conventional smoking.
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In addition, all e-cigarettes, cigars and related products not on the market by Feb.
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But there's no dispute that e-cigarettes have grown popular since their introduction in 22.
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Federal law already prohibits the sale of cigarettes and e-cigarettes to anyone under 18.
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Instead, people use the terms vaping, JUULing, vape pens, weed pens, and e-cigarettes interchangeably.
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Some patients used e-cigarettes with only nicotine, while others primarily used marijuana-based products.
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So how do we have successful conversations with teenagers about the hazards of e-cigarettes?
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The agency announced an investigation into whether e-cigarettes can cause seizures earlier this year.
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To increase the restrictions on e-cigarettes to prevent their use by minors is understandable.
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E-cigarettes are often promoted as a way for smokers to stop using traditional cigarettes.
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An expected FDA ban on flavored e-cigarettes should lessen vaping's appeal to young adults.
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But e-cigarettes at the time were using freebase nicotine, which is extracted from tobacco.
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Also, there were 13 million more teens using e-cigarettes in 2018 than in 2017.
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Unlike e-cigarettes, which use nicotine-laced liquid, heat-not-burn products use real tobacco.
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Lawmakers largely applauded the announcement yesterday that the FDA intends to ban flavored e-cigarettes.
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An awareness of the risks in e-cigarettes should also draw smokers towards recognized brands.
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But teens have reportedly been exploiting a loophole — flavored disposable e-cigarettes are still allowed.
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Michigan last week became the first state to ban the sale of flavored e-cigarettes.
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As smoking rates decline across America, e-cigarettes have become increasingly popular — particularly among teenagers.
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Michigan last week became the first state to ban the sale of flavored e-cigarettes.
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On Monday, California's governor said the state would increase its efforts to regulate e-cigarettes.
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A general lack of knowledge about e-cigarettes is also problematic, school administrators point out.
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This will retain the price advantage for e-cigarettes while continuing to deter youth smoking.
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The new legislation will apply the flavor ban to e-cigarettes, but not menthol cigarettes.
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The lack of solid research around e-cigarettes and vaping doesn't make things any easier.
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Worse, last year the government slapped a 57% excise tax on e-cigarettes and liquids.
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They do not yet know what in e-cigarettes is causing the severe lung illnesses.
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But this was the first year that cigars were second in popularity behind e-cigarettes.
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Schools around the country have also begun to educate parents and students about e-cigarettes.
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Walmart's decision is unique in that it's banning all e-cigarettes, not just flavored ones.
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Despite their apparent dangers, e-cigarettes continue to be popular among teenagers and young adults.
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Walmart announced it will no longer sell e-cigarettes at Walmart or Sam's Club stores.
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Some former smokers who have turned to e-cigarettes feel unfairly targeted by the bans.
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Walmart will stop selling e-cigarettes because of "regulatory complexity and uncertainty" surrounding the products.
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Some advocates warn that more action is needed to reduce teenage vaping of e-cigarettes.
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That study was published before Juul and other nicotine e-cigarettes caught on with teenagers.
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Four companies marketing e-cigarettes broke rules barring online promotions, a British advertising regulator said.
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"It's not very surprising that a place like England has embraced e-cigarettes," Kennedy said.
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Juul replaced its chief executive, as concerns mount about the health risks of e-cigarettes.
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Last week, Michigan became the first state to ban the sale of flavored e-cigarettes.
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"Do you Juul," she asked the patient, referring to the leading seller of e-cigarettes.
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But do the health implications of e-cigarettes warrant "emergency" action to curtail consumer usage?
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The Trump administration announced its own plan to ban flavored e-cigarettes earlier this month.
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That compares with about 15-20 percent of people who use e-cigarettes, he said.
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More vaping fallout: Walmart is taking a stance and will not longer sell e-cigarettes.
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E-cigarettes deliver nicotine efficiently, so they meet people's cravings better than lozenges or medications.
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But those same attributes are also what have made e-cigarettes so attractive to teenagers.
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The Food and Drug Administration has the authority to regulate e-cigarettes and e-liquids.
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Michigan became the first state to ban the sale of flavored e-cigarettes last week.
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Michigan was the first state to ban the sale of flavored e-cigarettes last week.
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Witnessing their family or friends try e-cigarettes and interest in flavors were other reasons.
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But tobacco companies claim flavored e-cigarettes help get adults to quit traditional cigarettes. 3.
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Still, Trump's announcement of a total ban on flavored e-cigarettes seems a little extreme.
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Both states announced earlier this month that they will stop sales of flavored e-cigarettes.
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The Trump administration has announced plans to remove all flavored e-cigarettes from store shelves.
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E-cigarettes are less harmful than tobacco cigarettes because they do not contain deadly tar.
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In the US, that kids' use of e-cigarettes is way [up] is a negative.
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In the e-cigarettes graph, there are line segments with positive, negative and zero slopes.
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Several states and cities have imposed bans, mainly on flavored e-cigarettes as a precaution.
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New York last week banned the sale of most flavored e-cigarettes for 90 days.
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Teen use of JUUL e-cigarettes increased in all three countries during the study period.
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The FDA also will introduce stricter age-verification requirements for online sales of e-cigarettes.
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Gottlieb had said in November that the agency planned more restrictions on flavored e-cigarettes.
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In March, the Department of Transportation said that e-cigarettes (vapes) are prohibited on planes.
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"The high combined prevalence of e-cigarette use or cigarette use in 2014, compared with historical Southern California smoking prevalence, suggests that adolescents are not merely substituting e-cigarettes for cigarettes but that e-cigarettes are instead recruiting a new group of users who would not likely have initiated combustible tobacco product use in the absence of e-cigarettes, which poses a potential threat to the public health of adolescent populations," the researchers say.
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We, along with the vast majority of e-cigarette manufacturers and consumers, laud regulators' efforts to improve the quality standards in e-cigarette manufacturing, improve the accuracy of product labeling, reduce the levels of toxicants present in e-cigarettes and e-liquid (which are already many orders of magnitude lower than the levels found in cigarette smoke), restrict young people's access to e-cigarettes, and deter young people from using e-cigarettes.
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The company, which has argued that e-cigarettes would save lives by helping people stop smoking, has come under intense scrutiny in recent months amid mounting outrage over vaping among teenagers and a spate of mysterious lung illnesses that have been linked to e-cigarettes.
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Go deeper: Scoop: FDA chief hands the WH his plan to restrict flavored e-cigs Rite Aid to halt sale of e-cigarettes and vaping products The FDA's formal vaping proposal is finally here Tobacco use is soaring among U.S. kids, driven by e-cigarettes
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"Proponents of e-cigarettes, including but not limited to the companies that make them, argue that e-cigarettes help people stop smoking," says lead author Scott Halpern, associate professor of medicine at University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine, in an email to The Verge.
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Some previous research suggests vapor from e-cigarettes may be less toxic than traditional cigarette smoke, but the electronic alternatives still release chemicals that aren't normally in the air and the long-term health effects of the ingredients and flavorings in e-cigarettes are unclear.
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The studies come amid a spike in teen use of e-cigarettes that's prompted the Trump administration to draft new rules temporarily removing all flavored e-cigarettes from the market until the Food and Drug Administration, which helped fund the studies, can review their safety.
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Eaton's report for the National Academies found that young people use e-cigarettes more than adults, and that—setting aside the inherent risks of using e-cigarettes—vaping may increase the odds that a teen or young adult will start smoking traditional tobacco cigarettes.
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By contrast, one of the leading skeptics of e-cigarettes in the United States, Stanton Glantz, a professor of tobacco control at the University of California, San Francisco, said in an interview that e-cigarettes are likely around two-thirds as harmful as conventional ones.
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"If we find that children are being attracted to tobacco-flavored e-cigarettes, if we find that manufacturers are marketing the tobacco-flavored e-cigarettes to children, or placing them in settings where they get them, we will take enforcement action there also," he added.
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Trump administration is readying tighter regulations on e-cigarettes, including ban on flavorings The U.S.' CDC public health agency also recently warned against using e-cigarettes — as it investigates a lung condition associated with vaping, following hundreds of cases and a suspected death in August.
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"The restrictions on flavored e-cigarettes announced today by the FDA are a step forward, but they are inadequate to reverse the youth e-cigarette epidemic and fall short of prohibiting the flavors that have made e-cigarettes so popular with kids," he said.
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In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week activated its emergency operations center to better investigate the outbreak of lung injuries associated with e-cigarettes and the Trump administration has said it is working to ban flavored e-cigarettes.
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The number of people who thought e-cigarettes were as harmful as cigarettes increased to 45% in that time, and the percentage who believed that e-cigarettes were more harmful remained low, at less than 10%, according to the results, published Friday in JAMA.
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The Trump administration County of Los Angeles City of Los Angeles Considering or working on a ban Announced or enacted ban on flavored e-cigarettes Announced or enacted ban on all e-cigarettes Four-month ban on all vaping products Wash. Mont. Ore. Mass. Mich.
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The Trump administration County of Los Angeles City of Los Angeles Considering or working on a ban Announced or enacted ban on flavored e-cigarettes Announced or enacted ban on all e-cigarettes Four-month ban on all vaping products Wash. Mont. Ore. Mass. Mich.
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"The jury's still out on the effectiveness of e-cigarettes for helping people quit," he says.
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Among their reasons for using e-cigarettes, teens and young adults commonly say they are curious.
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However, particularly in the U.S., smokers are not, in general, using e-cigarettes under such conditions.
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Similar incidents reported There have been a number of reports of similar incidents involving e-cigarettes.
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The Food and Drug Administration has proposed regulations for e-cigarettes, but none has taken effect.
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Its sleek devices deliver more potent nicotine hits than most other e-cigarettes on the market.
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But a surge in high school students using e-cigarettes, mainly Juul, has challenged that posture.
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Instead of snus, it backs the use of e-cigarettes to help people kick the habit.
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E-cigarettes are now the most commonly used tobacco product among children, teens and young adults.
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For now, the committee members agreed that e-cigarettes are safer than traditional cigarettes for individuals.
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But it also shows e-cigarettes are far from the panacea some suggest they might be.
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"We can't just assume e-cigarettes are being used the way everybody thinks they're being used."
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The previous week, Michigan became the first state to ban the sale of flavored e-cigarettes.
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Earlier last month, Michigan became the first state to ban the sale of flavored e-cigarettes.
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But different policies and cultures around e-cigarettes mean those results might not be replicated elsewhere.
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Its analysis — which looked at 1,288,378 tweets related to e-cigarettes or tobacco sent between Feb.
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Recent data suggest that using e-cigarettes, or vaping, could be a gateway to tobacco use.
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The CDC says that youth, young adults, and pregnant people should not use e-cigarettes, period.
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There is also debate about whether young people who smoke e-cigarettes turn into regular smokers.
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Kessler said it "remains to be seen" whether any e-cigarettes can survive the FDA review.
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Not all e-cigarettes contain nicotine, and vaping has been shown to help people quit smoking.
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Of course, the FDA could potentially approve some e-cigarettes at some point in the future.
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Following the hysteria in the U.S., China removed the sale of e-cigarettes online as well.
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It compared e-cigarettes with tobacco cigarettes and other tobacco products, mostly snuff and chewing tobacco.
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This year, many city and state legislatures are joining the effort to ban flavored e-cigarettes.
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Long-term studies clearing e-cigarettes as reasonably safe alternatives to cigarettes have not been done.
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And it warns that the use of any tobacco products, including nicotine e-cigarettes, carries risks.
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Meanwhile, about 26% of participants who didn't use e-cigarettes at all were able to quit.
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E-cigarettes vaporize a liquid that contains nicotine, the addictive stimulant that gives smokers a rush.
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I am grateful that the Senate is taking action to address online sales of e-cigarettes.
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Juul uses nicotine salts, which are more potent than the freebase nicotine in standard e-cigarettes.
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Many big tobacco companies, including British American Tobacco, Imperial Brands and Japan Tobacco, sell e-cigarettes.
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What's happening: E-cigarettes allow users to ingest more nicotine than they would using traditional cigarettes.
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British health regulators have also endorsed e-cigarettes as a way to help people to quit.
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The number of middle school students using e-cigarettes increased 48 percent in the same period.
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But e-cigarettes also increase the risk of relapse in some former smokers, the researchers found.
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A major question about e-cigarettes is whether they're overall less harmful than conventional tobacco products.
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The company dabbled in designing e-cigarettes before releasing version one of the Pax in 2012.
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Some smokers use e-cigarettes as a way to quit smoking tobacco, or to cut down.
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The Winston-Salem Journal estimated vaporizer sales (excluding e-cigarettes) would hit $210 billion last year.
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To date, none of Big Tobacco's innovations have caught on in the way e-cigarettes have.
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He also renewed his threat to remove e-cigarettes from the market if trends don't improve.
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However, the researchers also note concerns that e-cigarettes could serve as a gateway to smoking.
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The US Food and Drug Administration will officially start regulating the sale of e-cigarettes today.
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E-cigarettes might help smokers inhale nicotine without the deadly stuff that comes from burning tobacco.
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E-cigarettes hit the market in 2004 and since then we've seen their use rise dramatically.
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The use of e-cigarettes was barred by the department in a separate move in March.
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It's going to take time for us to understand how e-cigarettes affect your heart health.
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By law, e-cigarettes must undergo FDA review to ensure they are safe for public health.
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Critics have scrutinized this component, arguing the FDA doesn't know how safe e-cigarettes truly are.
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He estimated that around 20,000 smokers in England quit smoking in 2014 because of e-cigarettes.
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Of the teen users, 80 percent don't see regular use of e-cigarettes as posing harm.
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Some health experts are particularly worried about the impact of nicotine from e-cigarettes on adolescents.
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FDA's actions have focused on cartridge-based e-cigarettes, and not the open-tank vaping products.
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A new study found that mice who were exposed to e-cigarettes saw declines in fertility.
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Our recent research found more young people reported using e-cigarettes than cigarettes in late adolescence.
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Public health advocates are still debating whether e-cigarettes represent a health risk or potential benefit.
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Additionally, some say that use of e-cigarettes might protect young people from becoming cigarette smokers.
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The advent of e-cigarettes is one of the most promising innovations of the last decade.
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To the Editor: E-cigarettes are not the panacea to tobacco-caused addiction, death and disease.
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Not only have e-cigarettes done that, they also appear to divert teens away from cigarettes.
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He said the law "essentially foreclosed" them from delivering e-cigarettes to Indiana retailers and consumers.
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It also said it cracked down on 1,300 retailers who illegally sold e-cigarettes to minors.
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And again, we have the same companies that gave us tobacco now giving us e-cigarettes.
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Many teens refer to using e-cigarettes colloquially as "Juuling," after the popular vape pen brand.
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As of 2016, e-cigarettes were banned in 30 of World Health Organization's 195 member states.
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The intrigue: Juul has mastered a sleek and discreet design that other e-cigarettes don't have.
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Five percent of people said that they preferred the smell of e-cigarettes to combustible ones.
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The drugs through the gateway that we worry about with e-cigarettes are Marlboros, not opioids.
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Cigarettes are ubiquitous in "Blade Runner" — but today people have switched to e-cigarettes and vapes.
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We cannot allow Big Tobacco to do the same damage to young people with e-cigarettes.
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With the move, Michigan becomes the first state to enact a ban on flavored e-cigarettes.
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The agency now believes chemical exposure from e-cigarettes are likely the cause of the deaths.
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E-cigarettes have been on the market for just ten years, which is not very long.
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The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that one in five high schoolers use e-cigarettes.
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Under the same laws, the city banned the sale of e-cigarettes in pharmacies in August.
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Menthol, mint and tobacco-flavored e-cigarettes would be allowed to stay out in the open.
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His legacy will depend upon whether his proposals, including those for e-cigarettes, ultimately become law.
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The F.D.A. will also track youth use of menthol and mint e-cigarettes, Dr. Gottlieb said.
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Cracking down too aggressively on e-cigarettes may lead to more smoking — including among the young.
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Though e-cigarettes are supposedly safer in most respects than combustible cigarettes, they are not benign.
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The agency will follow that with ads aimed at discouraging young people from using e-cigarettes.
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And also that smokers who might have otherwise wanted to try e-cigarettes won't any longer.
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BREAKING: Today I am announcing emergency executive action to ban the sale of flavored e-cigarettes.
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The Trump administration has said that it would draft a ban on flavored e-cigarettes, too.
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Banning flavored e-cigarettes will prompt more smuggling, enriching smugglers and the treasuries of bordering states.
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In 2017, 5.2% 18- to 24-year-olds used e-cigarettes, compared to 7.6% in 2018.
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Before this wave of lung injuries, there were other concerns about e-cigarettes and vaping products.
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Second, e-cigarettes are a known gateway to other harmful substances — most worryingly, conventional tobacco cigarettes.
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Do you think teenagers are aware of the danger e-cigarettes pose to their developing brains?
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Gretchen Whitmer (D) on Wednesday banned the sale of flavored e-cigarettes effective immediately (The Hill).
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They found that mint- and menthol-flavored e-cigarettes contain extremely high levels of the chemical.
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The National Academies study is the most comprehensive review of research on e-cigarettes to date.
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Then, in President Obama's last year, the administration rejected a proposal to ban flavored e-cigarettes.
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For the sixth year in a row, e-cigarettes dominated the students' choice, the study found.
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The administration had previously said it would ban every flavor of e-cigarettes except for tobacco.
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It also said it would delay implementing new rules for reduced-risk products like e-cigarettes.
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At first, people saw Juul and e-cigarettes like it as a healthier alternative to cigarettes.
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The growing popularity of e-cigarettes has been paralleled by an evolving and unfinished regulatory framework.
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The popular Juul device, for instance, is often referred to as the iPhone of e-cigarettes.
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The epidemic has prompted health officials around the world to start pulling e-cigarettes off shelves.
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Others had friends who offered them e-cigarettes all the time, making it harder to resist.
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The Trump administration is also readying its own plan to pull flavored e-cigarettes from shelves.
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"Youth use of any tobacco product, including e-cigarettes, is unsafe," he said in a statement.
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She challenged Hahn on whether he was committed to finalizing a ban on flavored e-cigarettes.
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E-cigarettes have come under fire for their fruity flavors serving as a gateway for kids.
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But as of today, you won't find the mega-retailer stocking e-cigarettes on its shelves.
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Health officials have raised concerns about the safety of chemicals and batteries used in e-cigarettes.
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Recent studies suggest e-cigarettes can cause acute harm to blood vessels and restrict blood flow.
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And regulators have been slowly moving toward treating e-cigarettes like other tobacco products for years.
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Currently, e-cigarettes are not FDA-approved for the therapeutic purpose of helping people quit smoking.
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Michigan and New York have instituted temporary bans on the sale of most flavored e-cigarettes.
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That same day the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to ban flavored e-cigarettes.
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Multiple senators, including some Republicans, pushed Hahn to take a stance on banning flavored e-cigarettes.
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Public health advocates criticize the FDA for failing to assert its regulatory authority over e-cigarettes.
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India's government has announced an immediate ban on e-cigarettes — citing youth-focused public health concerns.
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When that happens, all current flavored e-cigarettes -- except tobacco-- will be removed from the market.
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Surveys showed that 40% of 12th-grade students in New York state had used e-cigarettes.
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Rather, e-cigarettes have been embraced mostly as a way for adults to quit combustible cigarettes.
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She became seriously ill shortly after she started using e-cigarettes and her symptoms progressed rapidly.
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She became seriously ill right after she started using e-cigarettes, and her symptoms progressed rapidly.
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And Wednesday, President Donald Trump announced his administration would be moving to ban flavored e-cigarettes.
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Among teens who had tried vaping, 63% didn't use e-cigarettes before age 16 in 2014.
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Juul's rise as the dominant seller of e-cigarettes coincided with an explosion in youth vaping.
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He said it is "unclear" if e-cigarettes are a gateway to other forms of smoking.
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In Australia, e-cigarettes not containing nicotine are legal to buy -- although such products are rare.
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The debate over whether or not to ban e-cigarettes is still rumbling in the Philippines.
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Azar acknowledged this week the "promise" e-cigarettes offer people who are trying to quit smoking.
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Lawmakers are blaming the surge in youth use of e-cigarettes on Juul, the market leader.
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When that happens, all current flavored e-cigarettes — except tobacco— will be removed from the market.
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Gottlieb believes in e-cigarettes' potential to assist the 224.73 million adult smokers to quit cigarettes.
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When that happens, all current flavored e-cigarettes — except tobacco — will be removed from the market.
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The CDC is also recommending people avoid using e-cigarettes if they're concerned about becoming sick.
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The Trump administration in September said the administration was readying a ban on flavored e-cigarettes.
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The decision closes a chapter in the ongoing federal debate over how to regulate e-cigarettes.
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The majority of Americans wrongly believe that e-cigarettes are at least as harmful as cigarettes.
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We know 70 percent of all adults who use e-cigarettes continue to smoke regular cigarettes.
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The reality is that e-cigarettes have both a positive and negative impact on public health.
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D.A. Seeks Restrictions on Teens' Access to Flavored E-Cigarettes and a Ban on Menthol Cigarettes.
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Why it matters: The rationale for e-cigarettes is that they're a healthier alternative to cigarettes.
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India has banned e-cigarettes altogether, despite having more than 100 million smokers in the country.
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This announcement comes after first lady Melania Trump tweeted Monday about the dangers of e-cigarettes.
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She grew up disgusted by her parents' smoking and thought e-cigarettes were just as gross.
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Why it matters: It's the only bipartisan federal legislation that introduces a tax on e-cigarettes.
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A panel of experts analyzed the findings of 800 peer-reviewed studies and came out with a grab bag of conclusions about e-cigarettes' health impact — finding that while e-cigarettes are safer than conventional cigarettes for individual smokers, their public health consequences are still unknown.
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"When we meet, Altria should be prepared to explain how this acquisition affects the full range of representations you made to the FDA and the public regarding your plans to stop marketing e-cigarettes and to address the crisis of youth use of e-cigarettes," Gottlieb wrote.
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They determined in September that the majority of cases came from THC-containing e-cigarettes but were unable to find the cause until last week, when new research pointed to vitamin E acetate — an additive oil used in the making of e-cigarettes — as the possible culprit.
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Here's what officials new and whenIn the study, conducted by researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, mice were exposed to e-cigarettes five times a week, which is equivalent to the exposure a human who smokes e-cigarettes regularly would get, said Caron.
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"One difference between e-cigarettes and traditional cigarettes is that adolescents and young adults who experiment with e-cigarettes may use the same device or switch to newer generation devices for vaping marijuana, which could lead to use of substance with stronger addictive effects," Dai said.
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In addition to banning flavored e-cigarettes and tobacco products, the bill would impose an excise tax on e-cigarettes, require insurers to cover tobacco cessation counseling and nicotine replacement therapies like gum and patches, and would restrict higher-level nicotine products to 21-and-over stores.
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President Donald Trump said in September his administration was readying a ban on flavored e-cigarettes, but in a meeting with tobacco and e-cigarette executives, as well as public health groups last week, Trump raised concerns over the possible consequences of banning flavored e-cigarettes.
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"The risks of e-cigarettes and cigarettes are independent of each other, and so if you're a dual user -- meaning you're smoking and using e-cigarettes at the same time -- you have the risks of smoking multiplied by the risks of e-cigarette use," Glantz said.
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Mark Leno, a Democrat who sponsored the recently approved California bill that defines e-cigarettes as tobacco products, said their popularity among youth — some 2.4 million middle and high school students were using e-cigarettes nationally in 2014 — means the devices present a new health crisis.
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For adult smokers, completely switching to e-cigarettes may actually be less dangerous than smoking combustible cigarettes.
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The use of e-cigarettes, however, is fairly new, so its long-term effects are still unknown.
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In the short term e-cigarettes will continue to have a negative impact on companies' overall margins.
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Substances known to be carcinogenic to man have been found in a few brands of e-cigarettes.
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Or, relatedly: If more and more people use e-cigarettes, could that "re-normalize" regular cigarette use?
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Yet what's clear right now is that not all e-cigarettes deliver the same amount of nicotine.
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PAX Labs, a maker of e-cigarettes and vaping products, closed on $47 million a year later.
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Meanwhile, not a single fund in the database mentions cigarettes or e-cigarettes as a focus area.
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Thus, it's not entirely surprising that the venture industry hasn't been a big backer of e-cigarettes.
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E-cigarettes heat liquid nicotine into a vapor without the harmful by-products generated from burning tobacco.
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They will either close or have to find something else, such as e-cigarettes, to drive profits.
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"You'd be surprised at who [uses e-cigarettes]," Bryce Wethington, another high school student in Georgia, said.
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Five states and Washington, D.C. upped the ante and won't sell e-cigarettes to anyone under 21.
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The report notes that e-cigarettes are also used to smoke marijuana and possibly other illicit drugs.
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Another concern Jordt has about e-cigarettes is that many users will simply never stop using them.
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Because e-cigarettes are so new, we lack sufficient data on their long-term effects on users.
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It is also highly unlikely that e-cigarettes promote higher daily consumption of nicotine than tobacco cigarettes.
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Among middle school students, 4.3 percent used e-cigarettes in 2016, down from 5.3 percent in 2015.
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It's also warned more than 1,000 retailers accused of illegally selling e-cigarettes to minors to stop.
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E-cigarettes are generally slender, battery-powered devices that turn liquid nicotine into vapor, imitating conventional smoking.
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"We were immediately surprised by how high the rate of use of e-cigarettes was," Volkow said.
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However, the surge in young people using e-cigarettes has enraged parents, teachers and now even regulators.
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Of course, these issues aren't restricted to Juul but are present for e-cigarettes of all kinds.
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There's also an ongoing debate about the degree to which e-cigarettes really help people quit smoking.
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So how do e-cigarettes work and what do you need to know about the health effects?
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E-cigarettes work by heating a liquid that contains nicotine into a vapor, which is then inhaled.
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The epidemic, of course, is not literal parasites but the rise in teens who use e-cigarettes.
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A study published in the journal Pediatrics looked at the effects of e-cigarettes on teens' bodies.
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"There's growing scientific consensus that there's significantly less toxicants from e-cigarettes than cigarettes," she told Today.
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But that was before teenagers started using e-cigarettes, including the Juul, at a surprisingly increasing rate.
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On top of that, he added, there are no restrictions on buying e-cigarettes on the internet.
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Last year's data showed a spike in youth vaping, with 3.6 million kids having used e-cigarettes.
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It could be that the e-cigarettes helped more people quit because they actually stuck to them.
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More than 2 million middle and high school students used e-cigarettes in 2017, the FDA said.
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Many states have either restricted e-cigarettes in some capacity or having pending litigation with the industry.
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But e-cigarettes, with their sleek, USB bodies and mango-flavored cartridges, promised a sweeter, safer future.
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The National Academies' report said the overall long-term public health impact of e-cigarettes remained unclear.
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E-cigarettes come in kid-friendly flavors like gummy bear, atomic fireball candy, and cookies and cream.
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Former California state Senator Mark Leno also tried to regulate e-cigarettes as tobacco products in 2015.
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E-cigarettes have no tobacco, but contain nicotine-laced liquids that the user inhales in a vapor.
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But, despite the belief that e-cigarettes can help smokers quit, there's mounting evidence that suggests otherwise.
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"Obviously, if this would be very severely irritating, people would stop using the e-cigarettes," Jordt says.
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Among middle school students, 25.8 percent used e-cigarettes in 27.9, down from 211.3 percent in 21.5.
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But the findings may help with the ongoing debate about whether e-cigarettes are safer than cigarettes.
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E-cigarettes are a product that, by law, are not allowed on the market without FDA review.
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Possible actions include the FDA reversing its application extension and pulling flavored e-cigarettes from the market.
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If the FDA moved to ban e-cigarettes, it would upend what's become a multibillion-dollar business.
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To keep e-cigarettes out of the hands of minors requires a multi-faceted, even-handed approach.
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The rising popularity of Juul e-cigarettes seems to be pushing the FDA into a tougher stance.
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Juul isn't the only company that the FDA has targeted in a new crackdown on e-cigarettes.
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E-cigarettes are metal tubes that heat liquids typically laced with nicotine and deliver vapor when inhaled.
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E-cigarettes have no tobacco, but contain nicotine-laced liquids that the user inhales in a vapour.
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Some may be concerned that sales of e-cigarettes and other nicotine delivery systems may be affected.
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With many varieties of e-cigarettes, the user can choose the nicotine content in their vape's liquid.
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A study published in the journal Pediatrics looked at the effects of e-cigarettes on teens' bodies.
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It's also warned more than 1,000 retailers that are illegally selling e-cigarettes to minors to stop.
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Ex-smokers were more than twice as likely as people who never smoked to use e-cigarettes.
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E-cigarettes are handheld electronic devices that vaporize a fluid that often contains the addictive substance nicotine.
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The FDA oversees e-cigarettes, but will not require vape companies to submit for approval until 2022.
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But since e-cigarettes do not actually contain tobacco, they were not covered by the original law.
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He even vaped on the floor during a debate over allowing e-cigarettes on planes last month.
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Altria, British American Tobacco, Imperial Tobacco, Philip Morris International and Reynolds American all produce e-cigarettes now.
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The U.S. Surgeon General reports that today more high school students are using e-cigarettes than adults.
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E-cigs released 31 harmful chemicals Previous studies had already shown that e-cigarettes contain toxic chemicals.
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Some fear that e-cigarettes act as a gateway to tobacco and reduce the stigma of smoking.
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When it comes to e-cigarettes, scientific reviews tend to indicate that they're less harmful than smoking.
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Complaints range from faulty batteries to poor taste—e-cigarettes deliver vapour with nicotine, but no tobacco.
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"The rate of use of e-cigarettes among kids threatens to reverse those gains," he told CNN.
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"Even with new sales restrictions, teens will still find ways to purchase flavored e-cigarettes," Kraft said.
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The FDA will also prohibit e-cigarettes from being sold to people under the age of 18.
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Conversely, there is evidence that using e-cigarettes harms hearts, adversely increasing aortic stiffness and blood pressure.
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The report states that there is no evidence to support claims e-cigarettes help people quit smoking.
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E-CigarettesAny e-cigarettes or vapors are actually banned in checked luggage, due to their flammable risks.
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Researchers have been hypothesizing for months that e-cigarettes are just a "gateway" to traditional cigarette use.
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There's enough research about e-cigarettes to have warranted a number of systematic reviews and meta-analyses.
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It found that current smokers were significantly more likely to use e-cigarettes and conventional cigarettes together.
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The Iqos arrives in the US just as the backlash against e-cigarettes has reached new heights.
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Would adults be more likely to quit if e-cigarettes were paired with other supports, like counseling?
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It could encourage adult smokers to switch to nicotine alternatives, like patches, gums, lozenges — and e-cigarettes.
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There's a pattern: FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb has changed his stance on e-cigarettes in recent months.
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The Trump administration on Tuesday announced a nationwide crackdown on the sale of e-cigarettes to minors.
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Already, some in Congress are seeking to weaken or eliminate the FDA's nascent regulation of e-cigarettes.
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Greenlane's move to tap equity markets comes as traditional tobacco companies make major investments into e-cigarettes.
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Importantly, E-cigarettes are also associated with an earlier onset of drug use and substance use disorders.
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Since e-cigarettes' mainstream inception, advocates have touted the devices as a safer alternative to smoking cigarettes.
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The truth is that e-cigarettes are less dangerous than traditional cigarettes and other combustible tobacco products.
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There are signs that e-cigarettes have already helped millions of Americans quit smoking, saving countless lives.
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Young children who are exposed to nicotine in e-cigarettes can experience seizure, coma and even death.
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Other tobacco companies have also invested in tobacco alternatives, including heat-not-burn products and e-cigarettes.
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Concerns about e-cigarettes like Juul have largely focused on their use of the addictive chemical nicotine.
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The tech giant's decision comes amid increasing public concern over the health risks posed by e-cigarettes.
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First, unlike traditional cigarettes, e-cigarettes do not contain tobacco, and they do not burn or smoke.
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In England, the National Health Service has recently initiated programs to dispense e-cigarettes for these purposes.
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Eaton's report for the National Academies concluded that e-cigarettes "may" help longtime smokers kick the habit.
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E-cigarettes are handheld electronic devices that vaporize a fluid typically including nicotine and a flavor component.
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"I think their main purpose here is to demonize e-cigarettes," Siegel told me over the phone.
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Background: E-cigarettes are touted by some as a safe way for adults to quit smoking cigarettes.
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If regulations banned e-cigarettes outright, 49 percent of respondents said they'd go back to smoking again.
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That compares to just 10.2 percent of those who had not used e-cigarettes, the study found.
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"Who doesn't hope for harm reduction for adult smokers?" asked Berkman, of Parents Against Vaping e-cigarettes.
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