E-cigarettes

Couple asked if they had been given drugs after trying vaping for the first time.

The FDA has cleared the way for Juul's biggest rivals to keep tobacco-flavored e-cigarettes on the market, but a similar approval might not happen for Juul.

Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced Wednesday the vaping giant will dole out $22.5 million to the state over the course of four years.

Shares in a leading e-cigarette flavor maker dropped more than 67 percent after news broke that its chairwoman was being investigated by Chinese authorities.

"Today's authorizations are an important step toward ensuring all new tobacco products undergo the FDA's robust, scientific premarket evaluation," the FDA said.

The agency said applications for other flavored products were rejected mainly due to their appeal to underage teens, but it needed more time to consider Juul.

Flavored products, like e-cigarettes, have long been a favorite tobacco industry strategy for targeting kids, Black Americans and others.

Accessibility and acceptability (through flavors, cost, or other means) of alternative, safer tobacco products are key to tobacco harm reduction.

"North Carolina is now the first state in the nation to hold Juul accountable for its instrumental role in creating a youth vaping epidemic," Attorney General Josh Stein said at a news conference.

"The attacks on the Capitol were an assault on our democracy and on the tradition of peaceful transitions of power that the United State of America first brought to the world," Alex Azar wrote to the president in a Friday letter.

A team of researchers examined hundreds of thousands of Instagram posts related to vaping.

The Trump administration is preparing to ban a range of e-cigarette flavors popular with young vaping consumers, but the industry says there is another issue that could cause it a bigger problem.

Though public health experts grow wary of prohibition efforts like these, flavors seem to attract youth users at disproportionate rates, compared with adults.

In the past few months alone, the vaping company parted with key leadership and cut more than 15 percent of its workforce in a two-pronged effort to win back the trust of federal regulators and save money heading into fiscal year 2020.

The White House says the president continues to weigh "all sides" of the vaping epidemic, which is affecting more than 5 million U.S. youths.

President Trump's FDA pick Stephen Hahn said that he agreed that the vaping crisis requires "aggressive action," but offered few other details.

The ban was aimed at deterring the five million teenagers who had taken up vaping.

"We've updated our guidelines to reflect that apps encouraging or facilitating the use of these products are not permitted. As of today, these are no longer available to download," Apple said.

The company will cut 150 more jobs than it said it would in October.

The warning comes amid a U.S.-wide outbreak of vaping-related lung injuries.

U.S. health body finds a link between vitamin E acetate and e-cigarette illness.

More than 5 million high school and middle school students used e-cigarettes in 2019, up from 3.6 million the year before, despite prevention efforts.

While the CDC has yet to figure out what's causing vaping-related deaths, other federal wings are trying to get ahead of a separate but related "national health experiment": old-fashioned Mary Jane, be it vaped or smoked.

The CDC, together with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), still can't determine the exact cause of the mysterious, vaping-related illnesses.

The day before a New York teenager died, an appellate court blocked a state ban on fruity flavored nicotine products that attract teenage and young adult buyers.

The Texas A&M University System includes 11 universities and more than 153,000 total students sprawled across the Lone Star State.

"Hundreds" of new cases have been reported in the past week alone, a top CDC official told lawmakers Tuesday.

Eight people have died in ICE custody so far this year, compared to six deaths attributed to e-cigarette use.

"It is unlikely this pending FDA action will have a significant impact on the cannabis vapor market," Paul Armentano, the deputy director at NORML, told Newsweek.

The president and first lady are concerned about the impact of vaping on U.S. youth.