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The FDA is extending the comment period for the advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM) regarding a product standard for flavored vapor and tobacco products to July 19, 2018. The unpublished version of the announcement is below. CASAA and many other groups submitted requests for a 90-day exten...
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Post Date:2018-06-04 17:12:57
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May began with a "blitz" of enforcement action from the FDA and FTC against e-liquid manufacturers that use artwork which closely mimics or otherwise is directly appropriated from food, candy, or beverage products marketed to young people. Although intellectual property ("IP") theft is not necessari...
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Post Date:2018-05-30 21:18:53
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While the authors of Cole-Bishop have essentially thrown vapers and cigarette smokers under the bus, there is still much consumers can do to keep the fight going!
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Post Date:2018-05-25 20:33:04
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Last year, Nicopure Labs and The Right to be Smoke-Free Coalition ("R2B") sued the FDA, arguing against portions of the Tobacco Control Act (TCA) and the FDA's Deeming Rule as they are being applied to vapor products. The court ruled in favor of the FDA, so the plaintiffs filed an appeal in the D.C....
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Post Date:2018-05-24 18:13:04
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This is an important call to action for all who have an interest in seeing vaping products remain a viable alternative to combustible cigarettes. The future of vaping is in danger, and we need your help to #FUNDtheSUIT and ensure that millions of smokers continue to have access to vaping devices tha...
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Post Date:2018-05-21 16:45:07
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On June 5, 2018, San Francisco voters will decide on Proposition E, a measure that would uphold the city’s ban on retail sales of flavored tobacco products (including vaping products) enacted last year. David Sweanor, from the Centre for Health Law, Policy & Ethics, University of Ottawa, recently ...
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Post Date:2018-05-15 17:00:04
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Legislative updates on Alaska, Massachusetts, California, Vermont, and other states. Alaska In the final hours of the Alaska Legislature’s 2018 session, two vaping-related bills passed; SB 63 (a bill that bans the sale of nicotine-free vapor products to minors) and SB 15 (a statewide smoking ban t...
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After posting a faulty study with misleading findings, Pediatrics editors hide the truth. Â When Drs. Benjamin Chaffee, Stanton Glantz, and Shannon Lea Watkins from the University of California, San Francisco published their findings on progression from vaping to smoking among youth who had previou...
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Post Date:2018-05-10 21:05:18
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New study finds that the gut microbiota composition of vapers is essentially identical to non-smokers, but the story is different for smokers. Â Led by Christopher J. Stewart of the Alkek Center for Metagenomics and Microbiome Research and Baylor College of Medicine, a group of researches has publi...
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Post Date:2018-05-09 02:17:55
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AVA President Gregory Conley wrote this editorial, which was published by USA Today on April 8, 2018. With the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention demonstrating that vaping products are among the most used quit-smoking tool in the U.S., many in public health recognize the need to have an adul...