Historic low youth smoking rate overshadowed by e-cigarette use
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Dec. 19, 2019
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Historic low youth smoking rate overshadowed by e-cigarette use ([link removed])
The end of youth cigarette smoking is in reach — new data from the Monitoring the Future survey shows the smoking rate has fallen to just 3.7%. However, years of progress to get to that point are being erased by e-cigarettes that are putting millions of teens on a path to nicotine addiction.
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Raising the tobacco purchasing age isn’t a cure-all ([link removed])
Creating a federal Tobacco 21 policy is a positive step to ensure young people don’t start using tobacco, but it alone is not a solution to the youth e-cigarette epidemic. Shifting attention away from efforts to ban flavored e-cigarettes plays right into the industry's hand.
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Participants needed for quit vaping study ([link removed])
Truth Initiative^® is calling on partners and youth-serving organizations to spread the word about a first-ever national randomized trial to evaluate its text-based quit vaping program. Young people aged 18-24 who currently vape are encouraged to apply to see if they’re eligible.
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5 tips for handling nicotine withdrawal ([link removed])
Coping with cravings from nicotine withdrawal is one of the biggest challenges to quitting both cigarettes and e-cigarettes. Find out what a doctor from Mayo Clinic says will help with those symptoms.
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Massachusetts — The state Public Health Council voted to rescind the emergency ban on the sale of all vaping products. Tighter restrictions on sales of e-cigarettes, menthol cigarettes and other vaping products were also adopted.
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Montana — The state health department will begin enforcing an emergency ban on flavored e-cigarettes on Dec. 18 after a temporary restraining order preventing the ban from taking effect expired on Oct. 28.
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New York — The state’s Public Health and Health Planning Council voted to renew the emergency ban on flavored e-cigarettes for another 90 days. The council had approved the ban in September but a state appeals court blocked enforcement in October. This vote will keep the emergency regulations on the books if the courts uphold the ban.
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