Cigarette smoking among Hawaiian high school students has declined 10 percent since 2009, according to the 2019 Hawai‘i Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS). The biennial survey monitors health ri...
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By overriding the governor’s veto, the Maryland legislature enacted a $1.75 per pack state cigarette tax increase, protecting kids and health, an anti-smoking group said. The state should now wo...
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An amendment to a bill recently introduced in the Indiana House of Representatives would have increased the state cigarette tax by $2 per pack but was rejected by the state House Ways and Means Commit...
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Connecticut Attorney General William Tong recently submitted testimony supporting the state’s Senate Bill 326. The bill would prohibit the sale of tobacco products, flavored cigarettes, vapor produ...
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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, along with Chicago’s Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection (BACP), and the Chicago Department of Law have filed a lawsuit against two vaping businesses...
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A bipartisan coalition of 23 attorneys general recently sent a letter to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) urging the agency to immediately ban menthol cigarettes. “State attorneys general...
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Vaping stresses and inflames lungs, causing subtle structural changes to proteins, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory discovered from studying rats....
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In fiscal year 2021, states will spend $656 million on tobacco prevention and cessation programs out of the $26.9 billion they will receive from tobacco taxes and the 1998 tobacco settlement. This...
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On Friday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued warning letters to 10 companies who manufacture electronic nicotine delivery systems, operate websites selling them and e-liquids, and did not s...
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Washington, D. C. Councilmember Mary Cheh reintroduced the “Flavored Electronic Smoking Device Prohibition Amendment Act” to the DC Council Tuesday, hoping to end the sale of all flavored e-cigare...
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