Older Smokers Are the Forgotten Victims of Our Vaping Wars

You might have seen the recent article about an 18-year-old who vaped for two years and was told by a doctor that he now has the lungs “of a 70-year-old lifetime heavy smoker.” What caused this and other vaping-related cases of lung damage became clearer in the past week, when the FDA announced that the majority of such cases were due to adulterants in illicit “products containing THC.” The conflation of these illicit THC vape products with nicotine-containing products has likely left many people confused.

2019-10-10
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Flight attendant union decries "catastrophic" fire risk from e-cigarettes on planes

The president of the largest flight attendant union wants the FAA to ban e-cigarettes from planes because their lithium-ion batteries could be a fire hazard. Lithium-ion batteries power virtually everything we travel with -- but the concern about vaping devices stems from the fact they're often powered by cheaper batteries, raising fears they're more likely to fail. [...]

2019-10-10
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WHO proposes action plan on e-cigarettes

The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends an action plan as the agency has expressed concern over the emerging problem of e-cigarettes, especially among young people in the Philippines and other countries in the Western Pacific Region. WHO Western Pacific regional director Takeshi Kasai said an action plan is needed to reinforce tobacco control in the region. “Obviously, our region takes this very seriously. This is the only region where all the member-states have ratified the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) but still we can fall short,” Kasai noted.

2019-10-10
philstar.com

Alibaba to stop sales of e-cigarette components in United States

Chinese e-commerce firm Alibaba said on Wednesday it will stop selling e-cigarette components in the United States, amid growing regulatory scrutiny and reports of lung disease and some deaths linked to vaping. The move follows announcements by Kroger Co and Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc this week that they would stop selling e-cigarettes at their stores, in line with a similar decision by Walmart. Alibaba said it already had a long-standing policy in place to not sell complete e-cigarette products in the United States.

2019-10-10
reuters.com

NYC files federal lawsuit accusing 22 online sellers of targeting young with flavored e-cigarettes

The suit accuses the 22 of illegally selling to minors, targeting young people via social media, and luring them with flavors such as "Lemon Twist," "Freddy's Pebbles" and "Whipped Salted Caramel." The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in US District Court in Brooklyn, accuses the defendants of creating "a public nuisance" by selling e-cigarettes to people under 21 even though such sales have been prohibited in the city since 2013.

2019-10-10
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Juul Is the New Big Tobacco

In 2004, Stanford grad students Adam Bowen and James Monsees set out to reinvent the tobacco industry. In 2015 their company, Juul Labs Inc., began selling e-cigarettes and flavored nicotine pods that were twice as potent as many competing vape rigs. By the following winter, “Juuling” was a verb. The two men, former smokers, said their goal was to save millions of lives a year by helping smokers switch. “Fifty years from now, nobody’s going to be smoking cigarettes,” Bowen said in a promotional video. [...]

2019-10-10
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