E-cigarettes
Elly Yu, WAMU When Will tried his first vape during his sophomore year, he didn’t know what to expect. It was just something he had vaguely heard about at his high school. “I just sort of remember using it a bunch of times, like in a row,” he said. “And…
EVALI (e-cigarette or vaping product use associated lung injury) isn’t the first controversy to hit vaping and e-cigarettes — they’ve been the source of controversy for years. JUUL Labs, the country’s largest e-cig manufacturer, has come under federal investigation for its sales and marketing practices – particularly to young people. The National Youth Tobacco…
A “breakthrough” in the investigation of vaping illness and death, EVALI, has been announced by Federal health officials and the CDC (Centers for Disease Control).
The FDA is investigating a new concern with e-cigarettes: Seizures following usage, especially among youths and young adults. The FDA says a review of voluntarily submitted adverse events reports to the agency found 35 cases of seizures after e-cig use between 2010 and earlier this year. The actual number of…
One of the FDA’s biggest campaigns last year was to stem the dramatic rise in teen e-cigarette and vaping use. The agency has previously called on e-cig and vaping manufacturers to come up with plans to curb marketing to teens. Apparently, FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb isn’t happy with the progress…
The FDA is proposing new restrictions on the sale of flavored e-cigarettes as well as a ban on flavored cigars and menthol cigarettes as part of an effort to curb youth smoking and vaping. Under the agency’s proposal, flavored e-cig liquids and pods can only be sold in stores that…
The FDA conducted a surprise inspection of JUUL Labs as part of the agency’s effort to gain more information on the e-cigarette company’s sales and marketing practices. The FDA reportedly seized more than 1,000 documents. The action comes just weeks after the FDA ordered JUUL and four other manufacturers to…
Saying youth smoking of e-cigarettes is reaching “epidemic proportions,” the FDA has ordered the manufacturers of the 5 top e-cigarettes to come up with plans on how to curb use by teens. The agency also threatened to pull flavored e-cigarettes – which are especially appealing to young people – from…
Using e-cigarettes daily can significantly increase a person’s risk of having a heart attack. Researchers analyzed responses from almost 70,000 people that took part in the National Health Interview Survey. About 3.6% of current and former e-cigarette users reported having a heart attack, and 6.1% of those who used an…
Although some argue that e-cigarettes may help people quit smoking or have less harmful consequences than traditional cigarettes, a new study found that many e-cigarette users also use regular cigarettes, undermining the argument that e-cigs are a smoking cessation tool. The study also found that respiratory symptoms were most common…
The FDA and the Federal Trade Commission are cracking down on manufacturers selling e-liquids used in e-cigarettes because some are allegedly packaging them to resemble kid-friendly food products such as juice boxes, candy or cookies and are using cartoon-like imagery. Federal regulators issued 13 warning letters to the companies, advising…
Health organizations are suing the FDA for postponing regulations for electronic cigarettes and cigars. The lawsuit comes after the FDA approved deadline extensions last summer for manufacturers seeking FDA approval for their products. Drugmakers were previously instructed to send in product-review applications by August 2018 for any product that was…
Smokeless tobacco devices that are marketed as a safer alternative to traditional cigarettes may not be as harmless as claimed, according to new research. IQOS – which stands for “I quit original smoking” – is a new “heat not burn” smokeless tobacco product manufactured by Philip Morris International (PMI), the…
The top three categories of pharmaceutical spending in 2016 were biologic anti-inflammatory drugs, diabetes medications and cancer therapies. In its 2016 Drug Trend Report, Express Scripts, a pharmacy benefit manager, found that 1 out of every 5 dollars spent on prescription drugs was for a medication to treat an inflammatory…
In yet another indication of the dangers of e-cigarettes, also known as vaping, teens who extensively engage in the habit are much more likely to also smoke tobacco cigarettes. About 37% of teenagers have tried vaping at least once, according to recent surveys. A new study examined surveys on 10th-grade…
The FDA has new powers to regulate e-cigarettes. It should use them to restrict vaping advertising and ban flavored liquids that appeal to teens. In early August, the FDA began doing something that was years in the making: It finally started to regulate e-cigarettes in a similar fashion to traditional…
Some argue that e-cigarettes are a “safer” alternative to tobacco cigarettes and can even be used as a way to quit smoking, but are they right? On Monday, the FDA finally began regulating the sale of electronic cigarettes, which have been growing wildly in popularity, particularly among young people. The…
In an effort targeted at minors, new FDA regulations on e-cigarettes go into effect today, including banning the sale of the products to people under the age of 18 and asking for ID for anyone that looks under the age of 27. In essence, the new regulations bring e-cigarettes, as…
On the heels of a report issued last month by the CDC that e-cigarette use among teens has skyrocketed, the FDA has finally moved to regulate them in the same way traditional cigarettes are. This means e-cigarettes are not permitted to be sold to anyone under the age of 18…
1. Buy good quality juice Pre-packed juice from a large, US company is probably safe and probably contains what it says it does, but do you know what that stuff is? Your local vape store that specializes in hand mixing e-liquids is also probably safe. Here’s an article about a Juicemaster General who…
Researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health tested 51 types of flavored e-cigarettes and refill liquids that they considered appealing to young users. Diacetyl, a flavoring chemical linked to cases of severe respiratory disease, was found in more than 75% of flavored electronic cigarettes and refill liquids. Via…
Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh Center for Research on Media, Technology and Health and the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Norris Cotton Cancer Center analyzed data from a national sample of nearly 700 nonsmokers who were between ages 16 and 26 in 2012, and again in 2013. Only 16 of the participants used…
Research commissioned by the Japanese Ministry of Health found that e-cigarettes contain 10 times the level of cancer-causing carcinogens than regular cigarettes. Researchers also learned that e-cigarettes can fuel potentially life-threatening drug-resistant pathogens. Via Raw For Beauty. Posted December 20, 2014. –Alanna McCatty
According to David H. Peyton, PhD, of Portland State University in Oregon, and colleagues, more than 2% of solvent molecules in aerosol samples produced by “vaping” e-cigarettes degraded into formaldehyde. While it’s not nearly as noxious as tobacco smoke, it’s not far-fetched to speculate that long-term e-cigarette use might pose…
“Will the FDA Kill Off E-Cigs?” the New York Times provocatively asked in an Op-Ed piece by Sally Satel. Ms. Satel is a resident scholar at American Enterprise Institute, a think tank focusing on what are generally considered conservative issues including limited government and competitive private enterprise, Ms. Satel points out that…
The American Association for Cancer Research and the American Society for Clinical Oncology have urged the Food and Drug Administration to regulate e-cigarettes in the same manner as combustible cigarettes due to insufficient evidence on benefits and harms of e-cigarettes. Via Los Angeles Times. Posted January 12, 2015.–Alanna McCatty
Eight years have elapsed since the introduction of electronic cigarettes, and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is just beginning to hold meetings to discuss how these devices are made and the potency of their ingredients. Why now? Because e-cigarettes have attained a meaningful, and growing, toehold in the nicotine…
Are e-cigarettes a godsend saving millions from lung cancer or the latest way for evil cigarette companies to hook a new generation on candy flavored nicotine products? Depending on your perspective, the answer is yes. New studies are published weekly supporting and denigrating e-cigs. Unfortunately before they are even published, these…
The alternative cigarettes are analyzed on their harmful and helpful effects Originally a Chinese invention, e-cigarettes hit the U.S. market in 2006, and sales of the tobacco-less cigarettes have skyrocketed. An estimated 3.6 million Americans are e-cigarette users, and online and retails sales of e-cigarettes are expected to reach $1.7 billion…
The healthy alternative to smoking? E-Cigarettes the good, the bad, and the nicotine Lindsay Fox, a 34-year-old writer/blogger in Irvine, California, began smoking at age 27 as a way to reduce stress. Soon Lindsay was smoking 15 to 20 cigarettes a day, a habit she continued for five years. But…