New York City Council approves ban on all flavored e-cigarettes as US officials backpedal

The New York City Council voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to ban flavored e-cigarettes as officials seek to curb a spike in underage vaping. The ordinance bans all flavored e-cigarette and vaping liquid flavors except for tobacco. Mayor Bill de Blasio will either sign the bill or let it pass into law, his deputy press secretary Avery Cohen said, which will make New York the largest city in the U.S. to ban all vaping flavors except tobacco.

2019-11-27
cnbc.com

Additives result in higher toxins for vape users, Portland State study finds

The vaping industry is filled with unknowns. Those unknowns are leading to more questions as the number of users dealing with injuries, or in some cases, death, continues to rise. Portland State University Chemistry Professor Rob Strongin led a research team to study what happens when additives are put into vaping products. Specifically, they studied the chemical reaction that takes place when cannabis is consumed using a vape pen or dab rig. [...] "What's inhaled is actually different than what's listed in the ingredients," Strongin said.

2019-11-27
eurekalert.org

#CHI19AU David Sweanor, Canada - Ethical issues and moral psychology of harm reduction

Prof. David Sweanor from Canada presents at City Health International Conference, 3 October 2019, Melbourne

2019-11-27
youtube.com

Vaping poses serious threat to children

Warren Lenney and 15 other paediatric healthcare professionals sound the alarm over e-cigarettes and call for the urgent education of young people on their dangers. We in the British Paediatric Respiratory Society advocate urgent health education targeted at children on the dangers of vaping. Children are the most important group to target if long-term health has any hope of improving. We also recommend medicinal-standard controls for the advertising and manufacturing of vaping products and tobacco. This is not currently the case.

2019-11-27
theguardian.com

Boston bans mint, menthol tobacco products from corner stores

Mint and menthol nicotine and tobacco products will no longer be sold in convenience stores in Boston after the Board of Public Health approved regulations proposed by Mayor Martin Walsh at a Monday night meeting. “What we are seeing now with the explosive expansion of vaping products risks reversing decades of gains in reducing youth tobacco use,” said Boston Board of Health Chairman Manny Lopes.

2019-11-27
bostonherald.com

Young people becoming addicted to nicotine every day vaping market remains 'unregulated', Auckland principal warns

The goalposts are shifting on vaping regulation with the Government today saying legislation will be introduced this parliamentary term, which could be nearly a year away, at odds with previous indications the introduction would be late this year. [...] “It’s unacceptable… for every day that we leave that regulation, the market unregulated, is another day that we’ve got more young people being addicted to nicotine and we just can’t have that,” Auckland Secondary Schools Principals’ Association president Richard Dykes said.

2019-11-27
tvnz.co.nz