By Mike Nowatzki BISMARCK – A bill outlawing e-cigarette sales to minors in North Dakota unanimously passed the Senate on Tuesday, though one lawmaker warned that not defining the nicotine-delivery devices as tobacco products will make it more difficult to enforce the law and protect minors. “Sometimes the good outweighs the flaws, and that’s precisely […]
By Jason McCoy from Moorhead I applaud the new TV ad airing locally that highlights Big Tobacco’s continued targeting of children. You may have seen this ad featuring an ice cream truck driving through a kid-filled neighborhood drawing lots of pint-sized customers to its menu of “31 flavors.” Only it turns out a tobacco executive […]
By JONATHAN BERR | MONEYWATCH The Food and Drug Administration expects to publish its much-anticipated regulations for e-cigarettes in June, as the products are surging in popularity. In fact, sales are expanding so rapidly that some experts predict e-cigs will overtake sales of conventional smokes within the next decade. “From our perspective, the rules are long overdue,” […]
Two new studies have turned out some scary findings about e-cigarettes. The first one, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, revealed that e-cigarette vapor can harbor hidden formaldehyde — a known carcinogen — at levels up to 15 times greater than regular cigarettes. “We discovered this form of formaldehyde hidden in the tiny […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp today announced nearly $914,000 in federal funding to support statewide efforts to prevent tobacco use. These funds, awarded to the North Dakota Department of Health, will be used to support its Tobacco Prevention and Control program, which includes information for schools and health care providers, programs to help North […]
By Meera Senthilingam, for CNN (CNN) It’s a portable piece of technology providing seemingly bottomless access to a drug craved by more than 1 billion people worldwide — nicotine. That craving is caused by smoking tobacco but is now being increasingly satisfied by e-cigarettes and the trend to “vape” instead of smoke. The selling point is […]
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By Mike Nowatzki, Forum News Service BISMARCK – Two bills being heard at the Legislature this week aim to keep e-cigarettes out of the hands of minors, but the burning issue is whether the nicotine-delivery devices should be classified as tobacco products, which would make them subject to additional taxes. The North Dakota Department of […]
Liz Szabo, USA TODAY Teens can easily buy e-cigarettes online even though sales to minors are banned in 41 states, a new study shows. Teens in the study were able to buy e-cigarettes online in 94% of attempts, according to a report published today in JAMA Pediatrics. Internet retailers rejected only five out of 98 attempted […]
Shari Rudavsky, The Indianapolis Star INDIANAPOLIS — No one says publicly that they want teens to start using e-cigarettes. Nor do most argue about statistics that show that youth have been flocking to this funky alternative to tobacco. The controversy in many state legislatures centers on what to do about it. Last year, for the first […]