The vaping craze sweeping the globe is leaving a legacy of contaiminated e-waste in landfill while waste management authorities scramble to set up recycling schemes.
More than one-third of teenagers between the ages of 15 and 19 have tried vaping.
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How providing information on the health risks of vaping through expert advice and personal testimonies can help steer students away from using e-cigarettes.
Big Tobacco’s efforts to rehabilitate its image should not go unchallenged because the tobacco industry’s goal remains advancing corporate profit at the expense of public health.
It’s estimated that tobacco use kills half of it’s consumers.
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The nearly half-billion-dollar settlement orders Juul to tamp down its targeting of the teen market.
A 95% reduction in the nicotine content of cigars and cigarettes would make these tobacco products largely nonaddictive.
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The proposed standard would lower the nicotine content in cigarettes and cigars by 95% – a public health proposal that could prevent millions from becoming smokers in the first place.
It is illegal for people under 21 to smoke e-cigarettes like Juuls, but adult use has come under scrutiny, too.
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E-cigarettes are facing calls for complete bans on their sale. A tobacco addiction researcher explores the balance between vaping’s harm to teens and potential use as a tool for quitting smoking.
E-cigarettes and vape products are illegally imported into Australia. Some claim not to contain nicotine, but do.
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If the crisis worsens, more people will ask, how did this happen? The answer will be simple: governments made good laws, but they did not enforce them.
Three tobacco-flavored cartridges and a vaping device have been approved by the FDA for sale in the US. It comes after a decadelong debate over e-cigarettes.
From October 1, Australians will only be able to buy e-cigarettes containing nicotine if they have a prescription from a doctor. But there’s another evidence-based way to help more smokers quit.
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Last year when the government tried to ban the import of import of e-cigarettes without a prescription, it cut corners. This time, the Office of Best Practice Regulation helped get the decision right.
Concerns about Evali may be preventing some from switching to e-cigarettes to quit smoking.
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