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Vape Wars: Regulating the Harmless to Death

Certain requirements must be met for a public health issue to be classified an epidemic. These include a demonstrable negative health impact — and victims. The flu is a yearly epidemic, and opioid ... read more

5 science-backed reasons to ditch that e-cigarette

Other products included in this category are personal vaporizers, vape pens, e-cigars ... A cross-section of medical professionals is of the opinion that regulation, not ban is required in the sector ... read more

Vaping Is Big Tobacco’s Bait and Switch

the burden of disease and death could be dramatically cut. Few have been more captivated by this argument than Scott Gottlieb, the departing commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, the ... read more

How vaping stacks up: E-cigarettes have benefits, but vapor has addictive nicotine

said Alexis Thrasher, a vaping enthusiast and co-owner of Vape Kloudz on Sixth Avenue Southeast ... FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb has said he doesn't want to over-regulate an emerging industry that ... read more

What Is Juul and Is It Better for You Than Smoking?

After all, with e-cigs, you can vape anywhere without lighting up or reeking of nicotine ... But it's still made with some very bad-for-you ingredients. "It's not just harmless water vapor and flavor, ... read more

Vaping Could Cause Cardiovascular Harm, Researcher Says

Scientists are still learning new things about the possible health impacts of vaping as the FDA struggles to regulate the booming industry ... Others take bigger puffs in order to make vape clouds and ... read more

The Single Best Anti-Gun-Death Policy? Ending the Drug War

Most of those 9,000 gun murders are of the more mundane, but no less deadly variety -- drive-by shootings, gang wars, personal quarrels, and other easily comprehensible crimes. And if we really care ... read more

Minnesota legislators try to clear confusion over e-cigarettes

Down the street from the State Capitol, in St. Paul’s Midway neighborhood, Vape Pro’s owner Troy Decorsey puffed ... The consumer is being told they’re harmless, but the fact is the consumer doesn’t ... read more

CDC anti-smoking ads target e-cigarettes for first time, highlight tobacco’s links to variety of diseases

The Food and Drug Administration decided to regulate ... He called the ad wars a "David vs. Goliath fight. But because we have truth on our side, these ads make a difference." Smoking is considered ... read more

E-cigarettes contain up to 10 times carcinogens: Japan research

Kunugita said the research showed e-cigarettes are not the harmless products many people assume them to ... In common with many jurisdictions, Japan does not regulate non-nicotine e-cigarettes. - ... read more