Slick ways tobacco companies are targeting youth

By Carrie McDermott • Wahpeton Daily News Although the tobacco industry states its marketing only promotes brand choices among adult smokers, they appear to be targeting youth with candy and fruit flavored tobacco products. Tobacco companies spend more than $1 million per hour in the United States alone to market their product, according to the […]

E-cigarette regulation bill begins to move in Minnesota Legislature

By Don Davis, Forum Communications ST. PAUL — Electronic cigarettes would not be available to youths under a bill the Minnesota House is considering, but a provision that would have banned them from public locations was not expected to survive. The bill would prohibit e-cigarette sales to anyone younger than 18 and ban them from schools. […]

E-cigarette worries

Minot ordinance would keep e-cigarettes from kids JILL SCHRAMM (jschramm@ minotdailynews.com), Minot Daily News Electronic cigarettes should be treated like tobacco when it comes to minors, Minot’s STAMP Coalition told a city committee Wednesday. The Minot City Council’s Public Works and Safety Committee voted at the coalition’s urging to recommend the council make it illegal to […]

To the Editor: Curbs on E-Cigarettes

To the Editor: Re “Hot Debate Over E-Cigarettes as Path to Tobacco, or From It” (“The New Smoke” series, front page, Feb. 23): As you note, the health effects of e-cigarette use remain unknown, and their use may actually be leading to greater smoking of traditional cigarettes, especially among children. In fact, a recent study of 76,000 […]

Poll: Minnesotans strongly support prohibiting e-cigarette use indoors

MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 26, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — A poll released today shows that a strong majority of Minnesotans (79 percent) support prohibiting e-cigarette use indoors in places where smoking is prohibited. Other regulations to prevent youth from using e-cigarettes are also overwhelmingly supported by Minnesotans. “This new poll shows that a strong majority of Minnesotans – 79 percent – support prohibiting […]