insert_link Health & Wellness San Francisco is Set to Ban Juul and Other E-cigarette Sales in 2020 The City of San Francisco just banned the sale or distribution of e-cigarettes in the city unless they have FDA approval. The ban, which also affects some flavored tobacco products, adds to restrictions that the city put in place on flavored e-cigarettes last year - already considered to be the strictest in the country. Cigarettes remain legal. Once it goes into effect in early 2020, the new San Francisco […] todayJuly 15, 2019
insert_link Health & Wellness Vape Now, Smoke Later A new study published in the JAMA Network Open Journal, has found that teens who start vaping are nearly three times more likely to go on to smoke cigarettes than their peers who don’t use any type of tobacco product. The results are alarming for both medical experts — who would rather kids not smoke — and for the e-cigarette industry, which is increasingly marketing its products as smoking-cessation tools […] todayFebruary 5, 2019
insert_link Health & Wellness FDA Tries to Crack Down on Vapes The Food and Drug Administration just announced a series of restrictions aimed at combating a growing public health menace — flavored e-cigarettes and tobacco products that have lured young people into vaping and smoking. The effort to cut off access to flavored e-cigarettes stopped short of a ban that the F.D.A. had threatened in recent months as it sought to persuade e-cigarette makers to cease marketing strategies that might appeal […] todayNovember 21, 2018