Rep. Brad Knott (R-NC) and former ATF official Richard Marianos are rebuking the China-linked Vapor Technology Association, which sought backing from the Trump administration, after a New York probe tied one of its board members to over 28,000 pounds of illicit vapes worth more than $2.5 million.
Squirrels have reportedly been “vaping” discarded e-cigarettes due to the fruity aromas, mistaking them for potential food.
Senate Republicans on Tuesday urged the Treasury Department and the United States Trade Representative (USTR) to combat illegal Chinese e-cigarettes.
Chinese vape companies that manufacture disposable e-cigarettes are on pace to avoid more than $2 billion in tariffs on these goods in 2025.
A Russian boxer has sparked outrage after a video of her sharing a vape pen with an orangutan at the Taigan Safari Park in Crimea went viral.
Illicit Chinese e-cigarettes that flowed into the country under the Biden administration are being ingested by Americans, raising concern among “Make America Healthy Again” Republicans who exclusively spoke to Breitbart News about the crisis.
Belgium will ban the sale of disposable electronic cigarettes as of Jan. 1 on health and environmental grounds in a groundbreaking move for European Union nations.
Australia’s left-wing Labor government announced a nationwide ban on recreational vaping Tuesday. At the same time it is tightening other e-cigarette laws in a huge crackdown on the tobacco industry as it tries to drive teenagers away from smoking in any form.
A federal appeals court on Friday temporarily blocked a government ban on JUUL e-cigarette products, ruling they can continue to be sold for now.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is set to order the popular Juul e-cigarettes off the market in the United States, according to the Wall Street Journal.
China’s Global Times, a government propaganda outlet, published an “exclusive” on Sunday claiming that Chinese scientists would soon demand Chinese coronavirus antibody testing for people in the United States diagnosed with lung injuries related to e-cigarette use.
A spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry demanded Thursday that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo clarify the “truth” about the relationship between the Chinese coronavirus and e-cigarette disease, two medical phenomena that no evidence suggests are related.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying floated the idea Friday that deaths related to the use of e-cigarettes, or vaping, in America in 2019 may have been secret Chinese coronavirus cases caused by a U.S. Army laboratory leak.
The CDC released data on Thursday that show 60 deaths and thousands of hospitilizations from using electronic cigarettes.
The number of adult smokers in the United States has hit an all-time low of 13.7 percent in 2018, according to the CDC.
A seven-year-old boy was caught vaping CBD oil in the middle of class this month at his Wisconsin elementary school, police said.
First Lady Melania Trump was cozy and chic for a gathering at the White House for her “Be Best” campaign where she warned of the dangers of e-cigarettes and vaping.
First Lady Melania Trump shined a light on what she noted as the “dangers” associated with e-cigarettes and vaping among American youth during a historic address to kick off Red Ribbon Week.
BOSTON (AP) — The governor of Massachusetts declared a public health emergency Tuesday and ordered a four-month ban on the sale of vaping products in the state, apparently the first action of its kind in the nation.
Following the FDA’s announcement to ban non-tobacco flavored e-cigarettes on Wednesday, Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (IL) took to the Senate floor to warn against the dangers of vaping and applauded the Trump administration for leading on this issue.
President Donald Trump spoke about the dangers of vaping on Wednesday as he proposed a ban on flavored e-cigarettes.
The e-cigarette company Juul has been accused of illegally marketing its nicotine pods as less harmful than regular cigarettes.
After a second, final vote on Tuesday, the City by the Bay has become the first major U.S. metropolis to ban the sale and distribution of e-cigarettes.
San Francisco may be the first city to outlaw e-cigarettes, pending a Tuesday vote from the city’s board of supervisors.
A 17-year-old boy was left with horrific injuries, including a broken jaw and several missing teeth, after an e-cigarette exploded in his face, according to a recent report.
The index of tobacco stocks jumped by 4.9 percent on Wednesday after Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulators threatened to ban retail sales of “e-cigs” if manufacturers do not control their rampant use by teens.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is threatening to pull e-cigarettes like Juul off the market because they’re proving too popular with the kids.
New research claims that teenagers used to smoking e-cigarettes containing high levels of nicotine are likely to move onto smoking conventional cigarettes.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is spending roughly $200,000 to study tweets about electronic cigarettes.
An e-cigarette battery exploded inside a woman’s purse at a New Jersey mall, causing panic among her fellow shoppers on the anniversary of 9/11.
LONDON (Reuters) – The number of people in France and Britain who have tried an electronic or e-cigarette has risen sharply in just two years, according to a Europe-wide study published on Tuesday. The research, led by scientists at Britain’s
Plain packaging of cigarettes is to be introduced in the UK tomorrow, following the failure of leading tobacco firms to challenge the legislation in the UK’s High Court today. Packs of ten cigarettes will also disappear from the nations shelves
California Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation Wednesday that raises the state’s legal smoking age to 21, and restricts the use of e-cigarettes — “vaping” — in public places.
LONDON (Reuters) – E-cigarettes are likely to bring benefits for public health and should be widely promoted to smokers to help them quit tobacco. Britain’s Royal College of Physicians (RCP) said on Thursday. In a report likely to further fuel
Looking to form class action lawsuits under California’s Proposition 65, nominal plaintiff Jerod Harris filed a federal complaint against R.J. Reynolds Vapor Co. claiming he didn’t know vaping uses nicotine.
On Thursday, the California State Senate approved raising the smoking age from 18 to 21.
