By: Joy Lim Nakrin A growing trend is taking hold in the Twin Cities: electronic cigarettes. Minnesota’s recent tobacco tax hike seems to have given the business a boost. “Smokeless Smoking” opened its first store in 2009. Now, four years later there are four locations. Since the new tobacco taxes took effect this month, sales […]
Some folks in North Dakota are in a snit because anti-smoking funds are being used to promote the cause at specific events, such as the Fargo-Moorhead gay pride festival. They should take a deep breath, preferably at a nearby smoke-free bar, and calm down. ND Quits and the state health department are doing what they’re […]
SHERMAN, TX — They’ve been touted as the 21st-century cigarette. But, one Texoma man has a warning for e-cigarette users after he says simply charging his caused it to blow up. Sherman resident, Wes Sloan, says when he decided to kick the habit he made the switch to an electronic cigarette thinking it would be […]
By: Vicki Voldal Rosenau, Valley City, N.D., INFORUM The gentleman doth protest too much, methinks. State Rep. Blair Thoreson, R-Fargo, that is. In last Sunday’s (July 7) Forum, Thoreson oozed indignation over Dr. Eric Johnson’s 2-months-old public debunking of Thoreson’s failed resolution touting the discredited, unproven “tobacco harms reduction” scheme. Thoreson testily asserted he “never had […]
By Adelaide Effie Beckman For The TimesDaily It remains illegal to market tobacco products to teenagers, but some health experts argue it hasn’t stopped some companies from finding a way around the law. Tobacco companies are now targeting teens with cheap nicotine products in colorful packaging, according to Melanie Dickens, tobacco prevention and control coordinator […]
By: Kyle Potter, The Forum, INFORUM BISMARCK – A division of North Dakota’s health department that aims to help smokers quit is putting $2,500 toward a gay pride festival in Fargo later this summer. Officials from North Dakota Quits and the health department say they’re trying to target populations with high smoking rates, but it’s raised […]
By Carol McKinley Colorado Public News The arrival of electronic cigarettes has raised a red flag for health officials and others who worry the activity of “vaping” nicotine will hook young people into a new addiction that could last a lifetime. In Colorado, the concern is heightened by the arrival of tobacco giant R.J. Reynolds […]
Article by: ANDREW WAGAMAN, Star Tribune It was trivia night, and Michael Jamnick didn’t want to leave the TGI Friday’s in Maple Grove to go outside and have a smoke. So he started puffing right where he sat. The 27-year-old from Minnetonka wasn’t breaking the law: He was using an electronic cigarette. Still, Jamnick said he felt uncomfortable vaping […]
By: John Lundy, Duluth News Tribune It’s hard to quit smoking. For individuals struggling with a mental illness, it’s even harder. “They have higher levels of biological or physical addiction to nicotine, in many cases,” said Dr. Jill Williams, an addiction psychiatrist. “In illnesses like depression, studies show that they’re more addicted than other smokers.” Yet […]
By: Ryan Bakken, Grand Forks Herald Usually, cultural change in North Dakota starts in the bigger cities and seeps down to less populated towns. That isn’t necessarily the case when it comes to tobacco, however. Earlier this year, Cooperstown, N.D., a town of about 1,000 people in Griggs County, passed a tobacco ban in its city […]