Category: TOBACCO
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FDA goes along with court order allowing Juul e-cigarettes to stay on the market while it conducts ‘additional review’ of products
Photo from The Hill —– By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The Food and Drug Administration has decided to stop, temporarily, its fight to ban Juul Labs‘ electronic cigarettes, saying there are “scientific...
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Sons of smokers may be more prone to addiction-like behaviors, memory problems and anxiety, study says
If you’re a parent who smokes, your sons may be more susceptible to addiction-related symptoms, memory problems and anxiety, says a new study from researchers at the University of Pennsylvania. The study is another...
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Carter County student goes to hospital with adverse vape reaction
A Carter County ambulance (Carter County Times photo) —– An ambulance took a student from East Carter High School in Grayson to Kings Daughters Medical Center in Ashland Thursday after the student had an adverse reaction...
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FDA proposes ban on menthol cigarettes and cigars, popular among Blacks, whose leaders are divided on the matter
Photo from ash.org —– Last week the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced its long-anticipated plan to ban menthol cigarettes and all flavors in cigars. “The proposed rules would help prevent children...
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FDA allows several more e-cig products to remain on market; decisions pending on products of several major makers
A newly approved product —– The Food and Drug Administration is allowing several more tobacco-flavored electronic cigarette products to remain on the market, it said Thursday. “The agency authorized several tobacco-flavored vape pods and...
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McConnell, Va. senator poke FDA about lack of action on rules to enforce two-year-old minimum age of 21 to buy tobacco products
Sens. McConnell and Kaine at the University of Louisville’s McConnell Center in 2019 (Courier-Journal photo by Pat McDonogh) —– Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine...
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Must-pass spending bill will let FDA regulate synthetic nicotine, which electronic cigarette makers adopted to avoid regulation
The Puff Bar e-cigarette (Photo by Marshall Ritzel, AP) —– The spending bill Congress is passing to keep the federal government going until the fall will let the Food and Drug Administration regulate synthetic nicotine,...
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Vapers or hookah users may be at greater risk for nose and sinus cancers, and upper respiratory ailments, than cigarette smokers
Photo by Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune, via Alamy —– Electronic cigarette vapers and hookah smokers are more than twice as likely to exhale particles through their nose compared with cigarette smokers,...
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Health advocates say state government needs to do a lot more about tobacco, including letting local governments regulate sales
Map by Bridging Research Efforts & Advocacy Toward Healthy Environments, University of Kentucky —– As the state legislature ponders allowing local governments to again regulate tobacco sales, the Lexington Herald-Leader has produced a...
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‘Fighting to Breathe,’ a look at lung diseases in Ky., their causes and new treatments, premieres Monday night on KET
Kentucky Educational Television is airing a three-part series and forum that will examine the under-told story of lung cancer and other lung diseases in Kentucky: the causes, the impact on those...