Michigan Governor's Reckless E-Cigarette Ban Relies on a Breathtakingly Broad Reading of Her Authority To Protect 'Public Health'
Gretchen Whitmer has unilaterally decided that Michigan smokers should not be allowed to buy flavored e-cigarettes.
Gretchen Whitmer has unilaterally decided that Michigan smokers should not be allowed to buy flavored e-cigarettes.
While the specific causes remain unclear, contaminants and adulterants in illegal vapes look like the most likely explanation.
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That's the opposite of the fear underlying the FDA's crackdown on e-cigarettes.
Two dozen patients hospitalized in the Midwest all reportedly had vaped something at some point, but we don't know what it was or whether it caused their symptoms.
After 35 years, a deadly virus has been tamed. Soon it could be history.
The widely quoted and consulted academic died yesterday at the age of 68.
A study suggesting that e-cigarettes double the risk of a heart attack ignored crucial information on timing.
The city is favoring the most dangerous form of nicotine delivery over a potentially lifesaving alternative.
Lawmakers struggle to pass a bill protecting operators from arrest and prosecution.
The new tax won't come close to fulfilling the steep funding needs of Mental Health SF
MUST Ministries has provided millions of children with free lunch sandwiches, but an old rule could change their program.
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But Justice Department officials want to stop them.
The upshot could be more smoking-related disease and death.
Those who continued to smoke cut their cigarette consumption in half.
A randomized clinical study adds to the evidence that e-cigarettes are far less hazardous than the conventional kind.
After a harm reduction advocate slammed a hardy but misleading factoid, users who retweeted his message complained that they had been shadowbanned.
Past-month vaping did not predict experimentation with cigarettes in a large sample of teenagers.
One survey shows cigarette use holding steady, while another shows it continuing to fall.
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Occupational licensing programs deprive people of livelihoods and often don't improve public health.
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In the name of fighting "the epidemic of youth e-cigarette use," Jerome Adams wants to raise prices and ban indoor vaping.
Is e-cigarette use by teenagers a public health disaster or a public health boon?
Misguided health police are cracking down on e-cigarettes.
The city's Staple Food Ordinance mandates that stores carry products customers don't want.
Even among teenagers, efforts to prevent underage e-cigarette use may do more harm than good.
The new rules arguably violate the law that gave the agency authority to regulate tobacco products.
The health burden on adults who continue smoking far outweighs the risks for teenagers who vape.
The FDA's decree will make vaping less appealing and less accessible to smokers interested in switching.
The company's plan to prevent underage vaping, which includes limits on constitutionally protected speech, goes beyond what the FDA is expected to require.
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The new rule, aimed at preventing underage consumption, threatens public health by making vaping less appealing and less accessible to adult smokers.