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Teens who use e-cigarettes end up smoking regular cigarettes as much as teens who have never vaped, a new study concludes.
The tobacco company Altria announced it is pulling its MarkTen and Green Smoke pod-style e-cigarette devices from the market, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Teens who use Juul brand e-cigarettes often don’t realize their addictive potential, according to a new study by Stanford University researchers.
The Food and Drug Administration is investigating whether e-cigarette companies are marketing their products illegally, according to The Washington Post.
A new poll finds Americans are divided about the risks and benefits of e-cigarettes.
The Food and Drug Administration seized more than a thousand documents from e-cigarette maker Juul Labs last week in a surprise inspection, according to The New York Times. The agency said the documents were related to Juul’s sales and marketing practices.
A new study finds more than one in five tenth graders have consumed edible marijuana, and more than one in 10 have vaped it.
The number of high school students who say they used e-cigarettes in the past 30 days has jumped 75 percent since last year, The Wall Street Journal reports.
One of every 11 U.S. high school students says they have used marijuana in an e-cigarette, according to a nationwide survey. That equals more than 2 million teens, HealthDay reports.
Youth e-cigarette use in the United States is an epidemic, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said Wednesday. He announced new steps the agency is taking to prevent youth vaping.
Almost 11 million American adults use e-cigarettes and more than half are under age 35, according to a new study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
Ninth graders who use e-cigarettes and hookah are up to four times more likely to use marijuana in 11th grade, CNN reports.
Teens are bonding over Juul e-cigarettes on social media, a new study suggests.
Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said this week that tobacco companies need to speed up their efforts to stop kids from using e-cigarettes.
The Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Trade Commission has warned companies that make and sell e-cigarette liquids to make their packaging less appealing to children.
The Food and Drug Administration announced a major crackdown on the vaping industry, particularly on the trendy Juul devices, aimed at curbing sales to young people, The New York Times reports.
Teens who use e-cigarettes may be more likely to try marijuana in the future, especially if they start vaping at a younger age, according to new study of more than 10,000 teens, HealthDay reports.
New research reveals that following an enormous jump in children's exposure to dangerous liquid nicotine from electronic cigarettes, the rate dropped in just one year, HealthDay reports.
Almost two-thirds of teens and young adults who use Juul e-cigarettes don’t know they contain nicotine, according to a new study.
The Food and Drug Administration will be taking enforcement actions to target companies that are marketing vaping products in ways that are deliberately appealing to children, the agency’s commissioner told CNN.
Middle schools and high schools are struggling to cope with a sudden increase in students using easily concealed vaping devices called Juul, which resembles a flash drive.
E-cigarettes produce more harm than good, a new study concludes. The researchers say the number of adults who use e-cigarettes to quit smoking is much lower than the number of teens and young adults who start smoking regular cigarettes after trying e-cigarettes.
Almost 40 percent of teens who use e-cigarettes say seeing their peers use the devices led them to try vaping themselves, a new government report finds.
Teens who use e-cigarettes are at higher risk of transitioning to smoking conventional cigarettes than their peers who don’t use vaping devices, a new report concludes.
Almost one-third of high school seniors report using some kind of vaping device in the past year, according to the latest Monitoring the Future survey.