International Updates Archive

Those who are older or have underlying medical conditions are most susceptible to disease, according to CDC  15 March 2020 Chelsea Ritschel The number of cases of coronavirus has nearly reached 200,000 around the globe, yet there

11 March 2020 Mary Kekatos Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Monday that a ‘healthy’ 22-year-old man was among the New Yorkers infected with coronavirus The man has no known pre-existing conditions, but uses e-cigarettes, which

10 March 2020 Brandie Weikle For 1st time, Statistics Canada has collected detailed information about vaping More than one-third of teenagers 15 to 19 have tried vaping at some point in their lives, according to

11 March 2020 Midhat Kapetanović When the European Union brought in strict new laws in 2014 forcing tobacco companies to sell their products in packaging plastered with graphic health warnings, many saw it as a

Hazardous chemicals could be carried on clothing and bodies of audience, study suggests 4 March 2020 Nicola Davis The lights dim, the trailers roll and the mutter of voices dwindles to a hush. But alongside

25 February 2020 Laurie McGinley  NASHVILLE — Robert Arnold has spent years building his company, Saffire Vapor, which cranks out 5,000 bottles of nicotine e-liquid a week, including Red October (banana nut bread and strawberries),

19 February 2020 Cynthia Callard & Flory Doucas Over the past two decades, each of Canada’s provincial governments has filed a lawsuit against tobacco companies to recover the costs of treating diseases caused by the

12 February 2020 Sean Morrison Britain’s top medical officer has warned politicians against letting history repeat itself by allowing e-cigarettes to be “pushed” at young people. Professor Chris Whitty said the marketing of vaping products should be dealt with

The case, brought by Massachusetts after a lengthy investigation, presents some of the strongest evidence the vaping company was marketing to teenagers. 12 February 2020 Sheila Kaplan Juul Labs, the vaping company that has long

10 February 2020 Abstract Background In countries banning advertising and display of tobacco at point-of-sale, little is known about tobacco companies’ continuing promotion of products through incentives and benefits to retailers. Method A telephone survey of 4527

29 February 2020 Adam Miller Health policy expert calls the campaign a ‘classic tobacco industry technique’ A major Canadian tobacco company has come under fire for a national advertising campaign that appears to downplay the

26 February 2020 Chris Kirkham (Reuters) – A group of 39 state attorneys general on Tuesday announced an investigation into Juul Labs Inc’s marketing practices, adding to mounting legal and regulatory problems for the e-cigarette

20 February 2020 Ivette Saldana & Perla Miranda By a presidential decree published on the Federal Official Gazette (DOF), from Thursday, February 20, the import of electronic cigarettes is forbidden to protect the Mexican population

25 February 2020 Madlen Davies, Ben Stockton, Matthew Chapman, and Tamasin Cave UNITED KINGDOM – The crowd screamed as Calvin Harris began his set at 2019’s Djakarta Warehouse Project, one of Asia’s biggest dance music

6 February 2020 Jamie Ducharme New Congressional documents reveal that e-cigarette maker Juul Labs pitched its products to at least eight Native American tribes, in a move tribal health advocates say is as disturbing as it is expected. “I

Smoking giants are flouting and skirting around Facebook and Instagram’s advertising rules, writes Andrew Rowell 4 February 2020 Big Tobacco likes to stay ahead of the curve – to survive, it has to. Its fundamental problem

13 February 2020 Chris Kirkham (Reuters) – E-cigarette maker Juul Labs Inc bought online advertisements on teen-focused websites for Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network and Seventeen magazine after it launched its product in 2015, according to a

30 January 2020 Reviewed by James Ives, M.Psych. (Editor) Cigarette butts pile up in parks, beaches, streets and bus stops, places where all types of littering are frowned upon. Best estimates are that over five trillion

The policy allows mint, dessert and fruit flavors to continue to be sold in disposable e-cigarettes, prompting many teens to switch from Juul to those devices. 31 January 2020 Sheila Kaplan The Food and Drug

Experts say campaigns aimed at explaining the dangers of e-cigarettes are just ‘a drop in the ocean’ compared to the massive volume of pro-vape marketing online 23 January 2020 Jacob Dube While a teen is

The tobacco industry makes a hue and cry about high taxation and smuggling every time irregularities in the industry are brought up. But even as they badger the government into curbing smuggling, here is how

21 January 2020 Robert Predit TUESDAY, Jan. 21, 2020 (HealthDay News) — The epidemic of addictive vaping among youth continues, with e-cigarette devices by Juul continuing to surge in popularity among teens and young adults,

Twenty years after B.C. sued, settlement negotiations move behind closed doors. 17 January 2020 Andrew MacLeod The long legal battle to try and force tobacco companies to pay for the damage done by their products

14 January 2020 John BaconJayne O’Donnell One-sixth of patients who developed lung injuries after vaping marijuana obtained the product from legal dispensaries, a new federal report says, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said

13 January 2020 Austin Beutner  Austin Beutner is the superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District. The Los Angeles Unified School District filed a lawsuit last October against Juul Labs Inc., the nation’s largest

13 January 2020 Jonathan Corum Cases and Deaths The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and state agencies have reported 2,602 lung injury cases that required hospitalization and 59 deaths linked to vaping. Vaping-related emergency room visits peaked in

13 January 2020 Lauren Etter Juul Labs Inc. received roughly 2,600 complaints about adverse health effects related to its e-cigarette during its first three years in operation, with customers citing issues such as burning sensations in

The international tobacco treaty bars corporate influence at its negotiations. So why aren’t the largest carbon emitters banned from climate conferences? 12 January 2020 Chris D’Angelo MADRID ― On the morning of Dec. 2, a

10 January 2020 Ariel Bogle International tobacco companies have sought meetings with the Prime Minister and leading cabinet members in an effort to overturn Australia’s ban on nicotine vaping. Correspondence obtained by the ABC reveals

9 January 2019 Scott Neuman San Diego’s public school schools have filed suit against Juul Labs, Inc., the largest U.S. producer of e-cigarettes, accusing the company of deliberately marketing its vaping products to young people,

Thomas Eissenberg of the Center for the Study of Tobacco Products at VCU was one of six experts who investigated the claim and found it unreliable and outdated 8 January 2020 Virginia Commonwealth University The

The results considered over 160,000 responses from smokers  6 January 2020 Moya Lothian-McLean New research suggests young people who vape alongside smoking are twice as likely to suffer from a stroke as those who only

7 January 2020 Sam Banchard E-cigarettes may have been making people ill for at least 12 years, experts have warned. Scientists trawled through online forums and found vapers have been complaining about the gadgets making

4 January 2020 Lateshia Beachum  U-Haul is pumping the brakes on hiring nicotine users in 21 states beginning Feb. 1. The moving-equipment and storage-unit rental company announced Monday that it will implement its nicotine-free policy in states

3 January 2020 Linda Carroll (Reuters Health) – Even as makers of e-cigarettes insist they are not marketing to U.S. youth, others in the vaping industry are offering academic scholarships targeted to high school kids,

3 January 2020 Jennifer Abbasi About 28% of high schoolers and 11% of middle schoolers now use e-cigarettes, according to a recent JAMA study by researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the

1 January 2020 resident Vladimir Putin has ordered an increase in payments aimed at encouraging Russians to have more children, the second welfare initiative he has signed into law to usher in 2020. The increase

18 December 2019 Sean Morrison Vaping may be just as risky as smoking tobacco in terms of increasing the potential for bacterial infections in the lungs, researchers have found. There is “little difference” in the effect

18 December 2019 Jane Wakefield Four vaping companies, including British American Tobacco (BAT), have had Instagram posts promoting e-cigarettes banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). The posts showed models and celebrities such as Lily

15 December 2019 Andy Riga E-cigarettes are on the market ostensibly to help smokers quit tobacco, but Quebec teens are getting addicted at an alarming rate. Nicholas Chadi treats a new generation of nicotine addicts:

12 December 2019 James Hamblin A glass-walled bastion of minimalism in a retail mall in Atlanta is the first of its kind in the United States. It looks like an Apple Store, but with a

5 December 2019 Sarah Owermohle More that 27 percent of high schoolers and 10.5 percent of middle schoolers reported vaping in the last 30 days. Data released Thursday reveal a big increase in e-cigarette use

4 December 2019 Adam Miller, Christine Birak Pulegone and benzaldehyde could be dangerous to human health when vaped at high levels E-cigarette liquids currently on the Canadian market contain potentially harmful chemicals, including a suspected carcinogen banned

4 December 2019 Mark Harrison New CBC News series examines the policy and industry failures that accompanied the introduction of vaping CBC News has been doing a lot of reporting about vaping over the past few years.

1 December 2019 Michael Standaert E-cigarette-related deaths in the US and a Beijing directive have China’s manufacturing sector on tenterhooks Online e-cigarette sales looked like a promising industry for Edwin Wong when he started his

1 December 2019 Kari Paul Districts in states across the country sue to recoup money seek on fighting widespread use of e-cigarettes More than a dozen school districts across the US have filed lawsuits against

25 November 2019 Lena H. Sun  Scientists were ecstatic. The test results were in. For the first time, the lab team at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had direct evidence that a chemical

23 November 2019 Jeenah Moon The company planted the seeds of a public health crisis by marketing to millennials, who had low smoking rates, and it ignored evidence that teenagers were using its products. SAN