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 […]

Senators look for e-cigarette marketing limits

By MICHAEL FELBERBAUM AP Tobacco Writer RICHMOND, Va.—Several U.S. senators on Wednesday introduced a bill that would curb electronic cigarette marketing while the fast-growing industry awaits regulation by the Food and Drug Administration. The bill is co-sponsored by California Sen. Barbara Boxer, Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin, both Democrats, and others. It would ban marketing to […]

Hookah is not harmless, experts say

By: REUTERS/SUSANA VERA Smoking hookah can be addictive and harmful, though many dabblers may not realize the dangers, according to a new review. “The cooled and sweetened flavor of hookah tobacco makes it more enticing to kids and they falsely believe it’s less harmful,” Tracey E. Barnett from the University of Florida in Gainesville told Reuters […]