Fridley Becomes 17th City to restrict flavored tobacco

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A Story on lung injury and vaping

A Tampa Bay area teen has a new perspective after he spent weeks at the hospital, due to what he said was a vaping-induced lung injury.

“At the time, I thought nothing was gonna happen,” said Alexander Barbieri, explaining he vaped previously.

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New CDC Data Reveals Vaping Use Near 33% in the U.S.

Use of electronic vapor products, or vaping, more than doubled among US high school students from 2017 to 2019 (from 13.2% in 2017 to 32.7% in 2019), a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has found. Current cigarette smoking decreased from 8.8% to 6% during that time, as did cigar smoking (from 8% to 5.7%) and smokeless tobacco use (from 5.5% to 3.8%).

Current use of any tobacco product increased from 19.5% in 2017 to 36.5% in 2019.

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Local sales restrictions significantly reduce the availability of menthol tobacco: Findings from four MN Cities

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Vaping Teens Experience 5x worse symptoms of COVID-19

Vaping is linked to a substantially increased risk of COVID-19 among teenagers and young adults, according to a new study led by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine The study, which was published online Aug. 11 in the Journal of Adolescent Health, is the first to examine connections between youth vaping and COVID-19 using U.S. population-based data collected during the pandemic.

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The Truth Initiative: Racial Justice

It’s no accident that nearly 9 in 10 Black smokers use menthol cigarettes, which are easier to smoke and harder to quit. The tobacco industry strategically and aggressively targeted the community with menthol cigarettes for decades, including placing more advertising in predominantly black neighborhoods and in publications that are popular with black audiences, as well as appropriating culture in marketing, including sponsoring events such as jazz and hip-hop festivals.

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msu: 100% Smokefree campus

Minnesota State University’s strengthened tobacco-free policy takes effect Aug. 1, just in time for when more students and faculty will be returning to campus amid a pandemic.The policy championed by the Mavericks for Clean Air Task Force expands on a 2012 ban on campus tobacco usage. After updating the policy to also prohibit e-cigarettes in 2017, the latest change includes stronger compliance rules, clearer definitions for tobacco products and makes more cessation programming available.Read more

FDA & Puff Bars

U.S. health officials are cracking down on a brand of fruity disposable e-cigarettes that is popular with teenagers, saying the company never received permission to sell them in the U.S.
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JUUL lawsuit

E-cigarette maker Juul Labs Inc bought online advertisements on teen-focused websites for Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network and Seventeen magazine after it launched its product in 2015, according to a lawsuit filed on Wednesday by the Massachusetts attorney general’s office.The allegations in the lawsuit, stemming from a more than year-long investigation, contradict repeated claims by Juul executives that the company never intentionally targeted teenagers, even as its products became enormously popular among high-school and middle-school students in recent years.

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