FDA declares youth vaping an 'epidemic,' announces new rules and investigations for e-cigarette manufacturers. The agency says it's giving the makers of Juul, Vuse, MarkTen XL, Blu and Logic 60 days to submit “robust” plans to prevent youth vaping. If the plans don't go far enough, officials could order their products off the market. Source 9r.
Those things are so annoying. All the smoke it gives off its more like an attention grabber to say look at me I have an e-cig and I can puff different flavors. None of my friends use it and they also think its a public nuisance but for a different reason than the government.
Surgeon General issues rare advisory to combat youth e-cigarette use. More than 2 million middle school, high school and college teens use these battery-powered devices to heat liquid-based nicotine into an inhalable vapor. Source 8h.
Teens will follow any latest fad to fit in and the companies that produce this garbage doesn't mind so long as they make a profit out of it.
Depression, anxiety, nicotine withdrawal: People who vape tell us trying to quit is 'hell'. Just as smoking has hit its lowest level since World War II, a new generation of young people is now hooked on nicotine through vaping. And quitting is proving just as difficult as it is for cigarette users, meaning a long-term addiction or, possibly, dual use with cigarettes or other combustible tobacco products. Source 1h.