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See how the youth e-cigarette epidemic is endangering kids, and what we’re doing to fight back before it’s too late.
Tobacco industry submits signatures on California referendum to block ban on flavored products sales
“We know Big Tobacco has hidden behind smoke and lies for years to hook generations of young people on deadly tobacco products, and this referendum is just one more tactic to continue the status quo. If this referendum qualifies for the ballot, we’re confident that California voters will reject Big Tobacco’s desperate attempt to keep hooking our kids for a profit. But the delay will be costly and deadly.”
Read More Los Angeles Times | November 24th
The Risks of Another Epidemic: Teenage Vaping
While most of us strive to avoid inhaling aerosols that could harbor a deadly virus, millions of teens and young adults are deliberately bathing their lungs in aerosols rich in chemicals with known or suspected health hazards.
Read More New York Times | November 23rd
Vaping Industry Echoes Big Tobacco’s Misleading Call for Science
It seems that as temperatures drop and winter descends on the Northern Hemisphere, the battle over the science of e-cigarettes will just be heating up.
Read More Scientific American | November 17th
Tobacco: All-products, all-flavors restriction is the best protection for Missoula kids
All of this shows that e-cigarettes are just the newest addition to an arsenal of tobacco products that the industry uses to addict kids. Exempting certain products or flavors allows the industry to continue targeting kids.
Read More The Missoulian | November 4th
Campaign to overturn California’s flavored tobacco sales ban accused of misleading voters
Supporters of a coming ban on the sale of flavored tobacco products in California asked the state attorney general on Tuesday to investigate complaints that people gathering signatures for a referendum to overturn the law have misrepresented the effort.
Read More Los Angeles Times | October 21st
Big Tobacco goes big in effort to quash law banning sales of flavored tobacco products
With the Nov. 30 deadline approaching for submitting signatures to qualify the measure for the 2022 ballot, the high-dollar effort has become an interesting blend of California politics and potentially huge business profits, with a dash of coronavirus shutdown tossed in for good measure.
Read More San Francisco Chronicle | October 14th
Lawsuit Aims to Ban Menthols, Big Tobacco’s Bait for Black Smokers
Activists and the American Medical Association are suing the FDA to bar the cigarette flavor, used by 86% of Black smokers.
Read More Bloomberg | October 13th
Parents are less aware when their kids vape than when they smoke, study says
Parents and guardians are less likely to know or suspect when their children vape or use other tobacco products than they are when they smoke cigarettes, the study, published in Pediatrics, said.
Read More CNN | October 7th
Drop in Youth E-Cigarette Use is Good News, But Rates Remain Unacceptably High, Driven by a Surge in Use of Menthol and Disposable E-Cigarettes Exempted from Federal Restrictions
It is good news that the results of 2020 National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS) released today show a significant decline in youth e-cigarette use after two years of alarming increases.
Read More Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids | September 10th
Vaping among teens falls for the first time in three years
“The decline is good news, but it is really a historic opportunity missed,” said Matthew L. Myers, president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. “There was an opportunity to bring about fundamental change if they had banned all flavored products.”
Read More Washington Post | September 9th
