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A case against e-cigarettes

By MANDY JORDAN, Bismarck Today we celebrate the Great American Smokeout. It is a national campaign that brings awareness to the dangers of tobacco and secondhand smoke, and encourages people who smoke to quit. According to statistics from BreatheND, this year in North Dakota 19.4 percent of high school students will smoke and will purchase […]

Forum editorial: Smokeout still has work to do

In 1976 a group of anti-smoking activists got the idea of having a national day when smokers would be urged to not smoke. From that modest beginning at the California Division of the American Cancer Society emerged The Great American Smokeout, which has been observed every year since then on the third Thursday of November. […]

Controversy, concerns heat up over e-cigarettes and vaping trend

SAN DIEGO – All the cool kids are doing it. Should you? The use of electronic cigarettes or e-cigarettes, also referred to as “vaping,” is suddenly a smoking hot trend, fueled by the recent visibility of numerous celebrities including Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Johnny Depp, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Ryan Seacrest among others. Actress Katherine Heigl […]

E-cigarette ads model big tobacco ads of old

Jolie Lee, USA TODAY Network Correction: An earlier version of this story included a quote that suggested the Food and Drug Administration regulated alcohol. The FDA does not have jurisdiction over alcoholic beverages. Some e-cigarette companies are following in the marketing footsteps of tobacco companies: celebrity appeals and flavors that could attract kids. The Food […]

10 Things E-Cigarettes Won't Tell You

By JEN WIECZNER The cigarettes of the future could be safer, cheaper and less taboo than the smokes of the past. But they also threaten to upend decades of antismoking efforts. 1 “We’re Big Tobacco in disguise.” When electronic cigarettes made their debut in the U.S. about five years ago, they seemed like a threat to […]

Crutch or cure: issues surround use of e-cigarettes

By Stephen Rickerl/Fremont Tribune The meteoric rise in popularity of e-cigarettes has some people scratching their heads as to whether the tobacco-less devices are a new tool in smoking cessation or a Trojan horse that could undo decades of anti-smoking campaigns. Electronic cigarettes are devices that primarily consist of a battery, heating coil, wick and […]

Representative Phyllis Kahn proposes ban on indoor e-cigarettes

By Allison Kronberg Minnesota could start treating e-cigarettes just like regular cigarettes. Rep. Phyllis Kahn, DFL-Minneapolis, proposed a bill Friday to include e-cigarettes in the Minnesota Clean Indoor Air Act, which she authored in 1975, that would ban their use indoors. She said she’s proposing the bill because the health effects of e-cigarettes are unclear, the […]

Reynolds Launches E-Mail Alert Feature

Published in Tobacco E-News Melissa Vonder Haar, Tobacco Editor WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. —Today, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. has announced a new feature on its Transform Tobacco website to immediately notify retailers, wholesalers and adult tobacco consumers when a tobacco-related issue arises in their state. Instead of checking the website, individuals can now sign up to receive electronic notifications via email […]

FDA: cigarette of the future could be non-addictive

By Deborah Kotz |  GLOBE STAFF The US Food and Drug Administration submitted plans several weeks ago to increase regulation of tobacco products including chewing tobacco, cigars, and likely electronic cigarettes — which produce a nicotine vapor that’s inhaled. While the agency hasn’t announced what those restrictions will be — since they’re being reviewed by the White […]

5 Year Anniversary of ND's Comprehensive Program

Today marks the 5-year anniversary of the passage of Initiated Measure #3, which, when passed with 54% of the vote on the General Election ballot on November 4, 2008, created a statewide comprehensive tobacco prevention and control program. As one of only two states in the country to fully fund a comprehensive tobacco prevention program […]