Tagged E-Cigarette

December 17, 2019

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First long-term study of the health impact of vaping points the way to regulation of all tobacco products Statement by Action on Smoking and Health On December 16, 2019, the first long-term study of e-cigaret...

The FDA tried to ban flavors years before the vaping outbreak. Top Obama officials rejected the plan

October 4, 2019

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Excerpt: Instead, over the course of 46 days, a deluge of more than 100 tobacco industry lobbyists and small business advocates met with White House officials as they weighed whether to include the ban as pa...

Statement from Action on Smoking & Health Regarding Trump Administration’s Move to Ban Flavored E-Cigarettes

September 11, 2019

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WASHINGTON, DC - September 11, 2019 - The Trump administration just announced that it will seek to ban flavored electronic cigarettes. This move follows the news of six mysterious deaths linked to vaping. Actio...

Is Vaping Bad For You? Is It Safe? Experts Weigh In

August 29, 2016

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Laurent Huber, Executive Director of ASH: Combustible tobacco products like cigarettes are extremely toxic, killing approximately 6 million people per year. Given that cigarettes are so ridiculously toxic, ...

New, sweeping federal rules bar e-cigarette sales to teens younger than 18

May 5, 2016

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The Obama administration on Thursday announced controversial new rules for electronic cigarettes, cigars, hookahs and pipe tobacco, including barring the sales of the products to teens under 18 years old. Th...

Are E-Cigarettes a Healthy Way to Quit Smoking?

April 12, 2016

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Supporters say they appear to be effective. Critics say there are better and safer ways to quit smoking. Read both sides in the Wall Street Journal here>...

On Twitter, e-cigarette ads spread like secondhand smoke

January 27, 2016

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Several states have enacted laws limiting where e-cigarettes can be used -- after citing public health concerns -- but as no federal law has been created to curtail e-cigarette advertising, companies are resort...

U.K. Approves E-Cigarette Prescriptions To Help People Quit Smoking

January 6, 2016

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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's drug regulators have given the go-ahead for a British American Tobacco electronic-cigarette vaping device to be sold as a quit smoking medicine, the first such product to be given a...

American Pediatrics say to raise the legal min age for tobacco to 21

October 27, 2015

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In a comprehensive set of policies issued during its National Conference & Exhibition, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) presents extensive recommendations to protect our nation's youth from the pern...

New study links e-cig use in teens to smoking initiation

September 1, 2015

E-cigarettes proving to be a danger to teens

August 13, 2015

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In 2014, e-cigarettes surpassed cigarettes as the most commonly used tobacco product by middle school and high school students, according to an annual U.S. survey. Teens’ fascination with this nicotine-disp...

The cool factor: Teens report positive feedback to using e-cigarettes

July 31, 2015

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An estimated 40 percent of teen users of e-cigarettes have never smoked tobacco, a new report finds, adding to the worries that the devices are attracting a whole new group of underage user, not just teens tryi...

Use of E-Cigarettes Rises Sharply Among Teenagers, Report Says

April 16, 2015

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E-cigarettes have arrived in the life of the American teenager. Use of the devices among middle- and high school students tripled from 2013 to 2014, according to federal data released on Thursday, bringing t...

Cambridge increases tobacco purchase age to 21; bans e-cigs from restaurants

February 6, 2015

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The Cambridge City Council passed last week a series of controversial amendments to the Cambridge Tobacco Ordinance, including an increase in the purchase age to 21 years old and limits on smoking in public par...

Big Tobacco Tries to Don A New Look: Are You Buying?

August 11, 2014

Big Tobacco wants to reclaim the hearts and wallets of most adult Americans by rebranding its tarred image — pitching “smokeless” e-cigarettes, embracing the mantra “harm reduction,” and funding science that co...

New Jersey Senate passes bill to raise age to buy tobacco products to 21

July 1, 2014

TRENTON, New Jersey — New Jersey might become the first state in the nation to raise the legal age to purchase tobacco products and electronic cigarettes to 21. The state Senate on Monday passed a bill that wo...

One in Five US Adults Use Tobacco Products

June 30, 2014

Adult smoking rates have dropped from 42% in 1965 to 21.3% today, but the rate of decrease is slowing, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) latest issue of Morbidity and Mortali...

NYC’s cigarette price-hiking regulations ruled legal

June 23, 2014

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A legal challenge to a new law aimed at keeping New York City tobacco prices sky high has gone up in smoke. Manhattan federal Judge Thomas Greisa on Wednesday sided with the city in a lawsuit filed in January...

E-Cigarettes & the Fight Against Tobacco

February 19, 2014

Media inquiries: Megan Arendt media@ash.org | (202) 659 - 4310 Electronic cigarettes have hit the American market with force, and their use has increased dramatically in just a few years. The tobacco indust...

E-cigarette use doubles among teen students, CDC reports

September 6, 2013

E-cigarettes have been surging in popularity, and a new government study suggests this effect is trickling down to U.S. teens. Electronic cigarettes' popularity and safety concerns on the rise New finding...

Reynolds American Subsidiary Sues E-cig Maker