Teens Testify to Congress About Juul
Now This News: Youth vaping increased by a whopping 78% between 2017 and 2018 — and Juul has apparently played a huge role in what the FDA calls an 'epidemic.'
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“Get Your Head Out of the Cloud”
KUSI News: PAVe Ambassador Phillip Fuhrman joined Good Morning San Diego to discuss the “Get Your Head Out of the Cloud” youth vaping awareness campaign from the American Lung Association and the Ad Council.
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Congressman Krishnamoorthi Introduces New Legislation
House.gov: Today, following the deadline for e-cigarette manufacturers to submit Premarket Tobacco Product Applications (PMTA) to the FDA in order to legally continue selling their devices in the United States, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi announced he will introduce legislation to add transparency and review to the e-cigarette approval process.
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Goodbye ‘banana smash’ cigarillos: Governor quickly signs bill to ban flavored tobacco
Cal Matters: Cotton candy vape, tropical fusion cigarillos and menthol cigarettes will be extinct in California after a bill aimed at stopping kids from getting addicted to tobacco sailed through the Legislature today— and the governor almost immediately signed it.
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Juul Files Key FDA Application to Keep Selling E-Cigarettes
Bloomberg.com: Juul Labs Inc. has filed an application with the Food and Drug Administration to continue selling its e-cigarettes in the U.S., the company announced Thursday, a highly anticipated milestone that will determine the fate of the once-highflying company.
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Lifting the Veil on a Controversial E-cigarette Company... Sort of
FairWarning: In recent months, mystery has surrounded the ownership of a controversial e-cigarette company that has reaped millions of dollars in sales of flavored, kid-friendly nicotine products by exploiting a loophole in federal regulations.
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Our Letter to FDA About Puff Bar
Parents Against Vaping E-Cigarettes: While we know that disposable e-cigarettes are exempt from the latest guidance, we are concerned that Puff Bar’s promotional materials and outreach efforts as cited below are illegal and also immoral; in light of the current pandemic, this behavior is particularly dangerous and potentially lethal.o be taking advantage of the coronavirus crisis to explicitly—and illegally—sell its products to school children.
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Congressional Demand for FDA to Remove Puff Bar
Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi: Today, the Subcommittee is writing to request that FDA use its full legal authority to immediately remove from the market flavored e-cigarette products sold by a company known as Puff Bar, which appears to be taking advantage of the coronavirus crisis to explicitly—and illegally—sell its products to school children.
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Ten Signs Your Child Might Be Vaping
PAVe.org: Would you know if your child were vaping? More than 1 in 4 high schoolers and over 10% of middle schoolers vape--and not just kids prone to risk behavior.
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Meredith Berkman - Beating COVID-19 by 929 English Podcast
929 Podcast: Meredith Berkman is the co-founder of Parents Against Vaping E-cigarettes. She sat down with Rabbi Adam Mintz to talk about how a pandemic may give teenagers more space for picking up vaping habits as well as her personal experience as a COVID-19 survivor.
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Teens who vape may be at more risk of serious infection from the coronavirus — here's why
Yahoo: “Vaping may enhance susceptibility to viral infections because of decreased host defense function,” she says. “In addition, sharing vaping devices — as is common among some e-cig-using demographics — would significantly increase the risk of spreading the infection.”
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Does Vaping Raise Your Risk of Covid-19 Symptoms?
WIRED: There are no studies yet, but reports showing heightened dangers for tobacco smokers and lung damage from vaping are raising alarms for doctors and parents.
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Doctors worry about the terrifying possibility that vaping makes COVID-19 worse
Digital Trends: “We’re concerned about this,” said Meredith Berkman, the co-founder of Parents Against Vaping/E-cigarettes. “No one has definitive evidence, but there [was] enough out there about why vaping is harmful to developing lungs before all this started that raises the alarm.”
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Pallone talks to students about the dangers of vaping
NJTV News: More than 6 million middle and high school students in America have admitted to vaping or smoking tobacco products in the last year. One million of them every day.
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College cheerleader says vaping almost killed him
Fox35 Orlando: A college cheerleader who became hooked on vaping at the age of 18 said he almost died.
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Lieutenant Governor Hochul joined advocates and state officials for #NoVapeNY rally in support of Governor Cuomo’s campaign to end this public health crisis.
Twitter: Vaping companies are tricking our kids, as young as kindergartners and first graders, with ads and social media promoting flavored products.
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Ruby Johnson: A Voice in the Fight Against Youth Vaping
American Heart Association: It wasn’t long after I began the trip to Colorado with our oldest that I knew something was wrong. She was coughing, running a fever and complaining of pain in her chest. She also admitted to me that she had been vaping- on and off for the last 18 months.
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PAVe on Moms Across America
Moms Across America: Zen Honeycutt speaks with the moms from Parents Against Vaping Ecigarettes about why it is so important and how to talk to our kids about Vaping.
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Governor Cuomo Launches Campaign to Ban Flavored Nicotine Vaping Products and Restrict Vaping Ads Aimed at Youth
NY.gov: Governor's Budget Proposal Includes Legislation Authorizing Health Department to Ban Certain Carrier Oils Used in Vaping Products that have Been Connected to Vaping-Related Illnesses
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Teens Are Still Vaping Flavors, Thanks To New Disposable Vape Pens
NPR: "Among the disposables [that] are most popular, there's Puff Bar, there's Stig, there's Viigo," Berkman says. They're designed for one-time use. Then, they're tossed, she explains. "These have just flooded the market," Berkman says.
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