30 Jan 2020
A number of the attacks on vaping have come from people suggesting that vaping is causing an increase in youth nicotine use, but a new study from NYU suggests this may not be the case.
23 Jan 2020
We're doing a roundup of the top two news stories this week! President Trump this week expressed regret that he'd ever gotten personally involved in the vapor ban issue, after discovering what the political cost was, and the CDC has revised its recommendation that no one should vape.
08 Jan 2020
Last week, after months of debate and backroom dealings, the FDA released the first federal flavor ban - and things are not nearly as bad as we might have feared.
02 Jan 2020
In what is being hailed as a major victory for supporters of vaping, Michigan’s Supreme Court has denied Governor Whitmer’s request to reverse the preliminary injunction granted by Court of Claims Judge Cynthia Diane Stephens on October 15, 2019.
27 Dec 2019
The long wait for answers is finally over. While the nation has spent months searching for the cause of the sudden rash of nationwide lung injuries, the CDC has confirmed that, as we've long suspected, the cause of E-cigarette or Vaping product use–Associated Lung Injury (EVALI) is very likely vitamin E acetate.
23 Dec 2019
In a victory for vaping rights advocates and public health activists alike, the national legal age to purchase tobacco products has been increased to 21. This bold, historic action will not only help keep tobacco products out of the hands of minors, but also forestalls the misguided attempts to legislate youth tobacco use through short-sighted flavor bans.
06 Dec 2019
On Wednesday, December 4, the House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy met with Mitch Zeller, director of the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Tobacco Products, to discuss the Trump administration’s proposed flavor ban.
27 Nov 2019
On Friday, November 22, 2019, President Donald J Trump met with representatives from the health and vapor industry to discuss the future of vaping regulation at the federal level.
15 Nov 2019
A new report from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has identified the cause of the recent E-cigarette or Vaping product use–Associated Lung Injury (EVALI) outbreak.
07 Nov 2019
The central point of agreement that all reasonable people share is that minors should not have access to products containing nicotine. While some of us may disagree on the best methods of keeping nicotine products out of the hands of minors, that single unifying goal can and should be our guiding principle for action.
31 Oct 2019
The last two months have seen a concerted legislative effort to prevent the sale of vape juice with any flavor other than tobacco, accompanied by a familiar refrain of preventing youth vaping. The proposed Illinois flavor ban is misguided, and while we applaud its goals, we condemn its methods.
