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Ive been reading a 309-page story that could become a delightful movie about corporate deceit and anti-social behavior. The managers of JUUL would be hilarious, if played by the Marx brothers. Sadly, those managers caused widespread teen addiction and added costs for our schools.

Remember when cigarette smoking was readily accepted in public places? When the U.S. Surgeon General submitted a report in 1964 on the link among cancer, heart disease and cigarettes, we increased regulations on coffin nails. Twenty years later, smoking was banned from public areas including airplanes, hospitals, and restaurants.

In the 1990s, attorneys general across America sued tobacco companies and won massive awards for the states in compensation for health care provided to smokers. Since 1999, Indiana has received $2.9 billion for smoking cessation and related programs, including $146 million in 2021.

Then, along came vaping, the process of heating a chemical solution producing a gas which, like cigarettes, contains nicotine and can be inhaled. Quickly, JUULs products captured the market. This was achieved by targeting children in junior and senior high schools.

Although JUUL denies such targeting, its use of social media, packaging and flavor additives made it cool for those 13 to 23. A steady and growing stream of health problems among the young led to many studies and even a Congressional hearing about vaping.

JUUL products deliver more nicotine than cigarettes in a single puff, speeding the process of nicotine addiction. Whereas cigarettes burn out, ending the intake of nicotine, JUUL delivers its higher volume nicotine long after any cigarette might last.

In 2018, the JUUL Labs, Inc. (JLI) sold a 35% interest in itself to Altria, the former Philip Morris mega-corporation, for $12.8 billion. Armed with the experience of Altria in selling tobacco to the youth market, JUUL expanded the market for nicotine addiction. Originally promoted as a convenient, reliable way to quit smoking, JUUL and other e-cigarette producers knew early addiction promotes long-term sales.

As young people became addicted to e-cigarettes, school counselors and teachers had to contend with increased disruptive behaviors and new health issues of students. Critical time lost to education and guidance was a real cost not reported in annual financial statements.

Today, a multistate lawsuit representing over 250 school districts is progressing. Yet only 15 are from Indiana. Why so few? There are no financial risks, no fees to pay for the school districts. All they have to do is answer a questionnaire, which is mainly Yes/No.

From my reading of the submission on behalf of the Carmel Clay Schools, the blatant deceit of JLI management will be exposed and a good financial boost for the schools realized. Why arent the school boards in Columbus, Chesterton, and West Lafayette participating? Are they so blessed that they have no vaping epidemic and no use for added funds?

MORTON MARCUS is an economist, writer and speaker formerly with Indiana Universitys Kelley School of Business. He can be reached at mortonjmarcus@yahoo.com.

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Jan. 27 - Eye on the Pie: Hoosier schools leaving vaping money on the table - FW Business

MOORHEAD A shop that sells vaping products is suing the city of Moorhead over an ordinance passed last fall banning the sale of flavored vaping products.

The suit filed by Northland Vapor Co. claims the ordinance violates the Minnesota Constitution because it is not rationally related to a legitimate government goal; it is too vague; and it constitutes an improper government "taking."

The company is seeking an injunction to keep the law from going into effect or being enforced by the city, or, in the alternative, that the city compensate the business for a regulatory taking.

In October, the Moorhead City Council voted 7-1 to ban all flavored tobacco products, as well as flavored vaping products, from licensed stores in the city starting Jan. 1.

The ordinance also brought the city into compliance with federal law by raising the legal age to buy tobacco products from 18 to 21.

A Clay County District Court judge in December imposed a stay that prevents the ordinance from being enforced until the company's request for an injunction is heard, which could happen in March.

The City Council met in a closed-door session Monday evening, Jan. 24, to talk about the status of the pending litigation.

Northland Vapor, which employs about 25 people, is located at 115 8th St. S. in Moorhead.

According to the suit, the vast majority of Northland's business is the sale of flavored vape products and the shop keeps an inventory valued at more than $100,000.

Before the council passed the ban, council members heard from a long list of individuals in support of the move, including retired teacher Dee Pretty, who had eight other former teachers stand with her when she addressed the council regarding a ban.

Pretty noted how the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that nicotine harms an adolescent brain up to age 25 by affecting attention span, learning ability and impulse control, and she added that four out of five young people who use tobacco products start their habit by using flavored products.

Council member Matt Gilbertson, who cast the lone vote against the ban, said during council debate on the question that "You can't regulate behavior. ... Prohibition didn't work, and this won't, either."

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Lawsuit takes aim at Moorhead's ban on flavored tobacco, vaping products - INFORUM

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An electronic device for vaping, a practice which has risen in popularity as cigarette smoking has dropped away. Photo / Nijat Nasibli, Getty Images

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The current mess with banks refusing credit after laws to prevent loan sharking shows that because two things correlate, one doesn't necessarily cause the other. That doesn't stop preconceptions and gut feelings; even experts put two and two together to arrive at five. Correlation isn't causation.

In recent weeks, vaping and smoking has been prominent in the Herald.

In the blue corner is Professor Robert Beaglehole who, with ASH and Auckland University, have featured vaping as one of the best tools we have to stop smoking. In the red corner are negative columns representing the Asthma and Respiratory Foundation's view.

With smoking rates falling as vaping takes off, why are some going hell for leather to take it out? Late last year, the Ministry of Health said that 9.4 per cent of Kiwis smoke daily after the biggest year-on-year fall ever. This corresponded with the biggest rise in daily vaping to 6.2 per cent. Consumers are voting with their own wallets for better health.

So why attack "Vape to Quit Strong" when it's working? Not long ago, we're talking 2013-2014, over half of 15-34 year-olds used to smoke daily. After six years of eyewatering excise tax hikes, plain packaging and TV campaigns, this fell by 18 per cent to a third. Not what the experts expected because correlation is not causation.

You need something more and the confounder is vaping. Something the Ministry of Health's easy to understand 2020/2021 New Zealand Health Survey highlights big time.

In the first year since vaping was regulated, the Ministry of Health found that smoking among 15-34-year-olds collapsed to 21.1 per cent - that's a 12 per cent drop in just one year. This also saw the biggest decline in Maori smokers while Asian Kiwis became the first smokefree ethnicity.

Among youth, the subject of the Herald's recent focus, what isn't reported nearly enough is that just 1.1 per cent of 15-17-year-olds smoke daily and 8.1 per cent of those aged 18-24. At this rate there's no need for the Smokefree Generations Policy. They're on track well before 2025. This is the opposite of the clickbait with youth vaping. The Ministry of Health may put 15-17-year-old daily vapers at 5.8 per cent but 2 per cent quit smoking in the same year. Here, the Asthma and Respiratory Foundation strains credibility by claiming youth vaping is almost four times higher. If one in five young vaped daily I think we'd all notice. As Professor Beaglehole said in the Herald recently, 20 years ago 15 per cent of 15-17-year-olds used to smoke daily.

Given it's hard to have a cup of tea while chewing nicotine gum, vaping fits with what smokers know. So is vaping "safe"? I cannot say that. Is vaping less harmful than smoking? You bet. Public Health England maintains vaping is 95 per cent less harmful than lighting up. Vaping creates a flavoured aerosol whereas a cigarette is like sticking your head over a chimney. The most harmful chemicals come when anything burns.

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Not content with attacking our best smokefree tool, the Asthma and Respiratory Foundation now wants to ban vape sales within a kilometre of every school. You are talking a vast land area covering 78.5 hectares. That's like putting the Auckland Domain around each and every school in New Zealand. That's not just unreasonable, it's barking mad.

I have to call out the racism here. Most dairy owners are ethnic but are being portrayed like a pantomime villain. If a dairy owner, or anyone, knowingly sells to underage people they deserve to have the book thrown at them because 18+ is the law. As correlation is not causation, could kids be getting vapes off older siblings and friends? Could they be "borrowing" a vape from home? Is there a black market, as with cigarettes? Dairies are daily crime victims and vape stores are increasingly ram raided. Much more attention must be applied to retail crime.

Dairies want to be part of the smokefree solution, because it is an alternative for when cigarette sales eventually end. This needs three policy changes. First, re-enable the sale of flavours in dairies and second, allow us to sell Scandinavian style oral nicotine pouches that's achieved miracles up in Europe. Vaping shows that greater consumer choice will achieve Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 faster and more cheaply than other initiatives. Third, we should also be able to talk freely about vaping with customers who come in to buy cigarettes. Three things under law we cannot do.

And while it shouldn't happen, children will do their own thing and experiment. What used to be "smoking behind the bike sheds" back in the day, is now vaping behind the bike sheds.

Sunny Kaushal is the chair of the Dairy and Business Owners Group.

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Sunny Kaushal: What's going on behind the bike sheds? - New Zealand Herald

The 10th annual vape predictions is out in the market, and experts have told us what it means for the market this year.

Lets get to the first things first.

Experts say last years high were mainly regulatory directions many Asian countries took on lower-risk alternatives, including China. A top WHO award went to Indias former health minister for banning vaping, even as he was in the midst of being ousted for grossly mishandling the Covid situation.

In 2022, the tide will decisively shift in favour of tobacco harm reduction policies, with China high on political and monetary influence will most likely lead the transformation. In India, there will be a consolidation of the tobacco harm reduction (THR) movement with more voices joining the chorus for risk-reduction measures. Empirical and policy evidence in favour of allowing the countrys significant tobacco-using population access to less harmful options will find its way through the market clutter. The new health administration has so far downplayed the ENDS ban, which could indicate its willingness to consider a counterview.

And then, pushed by rising consumer awareness and demand, and lack of enforcement of the ban, the black market will become more entrenched and it will become increasingly easier for Indians to buy vapes.

Increasing restrictions after the EVALI lung crisis and Covid across the world wreaked havoc for the vaping industry though there were some positives. So lets see the bad impact. In the United States, the pre-market tobacco application process will continue to be central to the future of the industry.

I am told millions of applications have been rejected and many remained outstanding a year later. So there could be more legal challenges. And even if hypothetically the FDA concludes their review of all 6m+ applications next year, effective enforcement will be unlikely, leading to continued uncertainty.

There are rumours already in the market that the US FDA Commissioner, Robert Califf, is known for having critical views of flavoured vape products, he is unlikely to prioritize the FDAs review process given the many other health issues that will be on his plate. The US market has seen a huge growth in flavoured disposables and synthetic nicotine mainly because of the unforeseen consequences of this policy uncertainty in the US.

Across Europe, restrictions on flavours and other sales restrictions will continue during 2022 together with increasing tax. A tax directive at an EU level may bring in a minimum tax for all vape products in the EU27 and political discussions in the European Parliament may well result in European-wide flavour restrictions. And in China, vaping will be brought under the tobacco monopoly, and licensing will be controlled centrally (although private companies may be allowed to continue to operate).

But there is sunshine on the flip side of it. And it is for the good of the industry.

The US FDA has authorized a vape product for sale in the US, deeming it to be appropriate for the protection of public health. This is a huge step forward: if one product can obtain approval, then so can others. The US Senate has blocked the implementation of a federal tax on vaping because it would be deemed regressive, particularly given that it would tax some vape products higher than combustible cigarettes.

And then, the European Parliament has granted preliminary approval to a cancer report which stated that electronic cigarettes could allow some smokers to progressively quit smoking (even if they also approved the future assessment of a flavour ban in the same report).

So what will happen to the vape markets? Policies will continue to limit the introduction of new products and technologies as the availability of tobacco cigarettes and disposable e-cigarettes continues to grow. New systems that will help track buyers and products to prevent them from being used by youth. This will make products more expensive, and people who smoke cigarettes/use nicotine are also more likely to distrust a system that requires registration.

And then, there will be some crossover with the cannabis industry, focusing on heating elements and safer, more affordable batteries. Green materials I am told are now used for the outer casings and packaging on some devices.

The availability and price of disposable e-cigarettes suit customer buying habits for people likely to use nicotine. The issue with disposables is that no one is currently taking responsibility for the batteries and plastics once the products are used or expired. This, claim experts, needs to be handled with care.

Consider the situation in the UK. New NICE guidance published this November will accelerate the number of health professionals recommending vaping to smokers. The new Tobacco Control Plan for England will see a greater emphasis on promoting vaping to reach this goal. Devolved nations will take this as an impetus to relax their more hesitant stances and get behind vaping to a greater extent.

2021 will certainly be remembered as a phoenix year for the disposable e-cigarette, with incredible growth in their popularity in the UK. Although seen as controversial by some, disposables will have increased the number of people making a quit attempt with an e-cigarette. Next years smoking rates data will reflect this change.

The impact of the vaping crisis in 2019 continues to reverberate and reshape the nicotine landscape in the US while also having a major impact on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.

Experts claim the end of combustion is in sight for tobacco, just as it is for fossil fuels. Many groups are trying to stop tobacco harm reduction (THR), but THR will be driven forward by the dynamic of new nicotine technologies, consumer interest and good regulation. THR is here for good: its an easy fix that will have a massive impact on world health. It is one of the classic, but often unremarked, health interventions that doesnt require government expenditure. And then, there is growing evidence that vaping can increase quit rates, reduce smoking prevalence and that vaping is not a gateway into smoking.

There will be the rise of basic drivers of technology, innovation, and consumer preferences (e.g for not dying in agony of cancer or living in misery with COPD) that will slowly change the market moving steadily but irresistibly like the earths tectonic plates.

Predicting what is likely to happen in the vaping market continues to be a good basis for humility, claim experts. The short-term developments that most get attention have been negative for some time. There is a hugely well-financed effort to constrain or ban alternatives to cigarettes. It is backed by bodies such as the WHO which shamefully continues to show no grasp of some pretty basic concepts in public health and thinks it is fighting the tobacco industry without an apparent appreciation of just what that industry is and how it operates. Such groups perpetuate the epidemic of cigarette-caused disease and deaths. They will continue to so in 2022 given the value placed on consistency over rationality.

The world is also witnessing the most rapid declines in cigarette use in countries that have allowed substitution of cigarettes with far lower risk alternatives.

Views expressed above are the author's own.

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Some random thoughts for vaping in 2022 - The Times of India Blog

A woman has warned of the dangers of vaping after a device exploded in her home and destroyed the first floor of the property.

Susan, 34, from Wolverhampton, said the machine had exploded in her daughter's boyfriends' hands after he put the battery in and then set fire to a bed headboard.

The family - including her two younger daughters aged 10 and three - are now facing homelessness and have lost all of their clothes in the blaze.

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Pictures of the upstairs of the property show blackened shells of rooms after the fire on Sunday, January 23.

Luckily, Susan's 16-year-old daughter and her boyfriend, 15 - who she said were still "distressed" by the event - were physically unharmed.

But the mum-of-three is now warning of the dangers posed by vaping pens - something she didn't realise was so easily accessed by children.

"I don't agree with children being able to access vapes so wouldn't have thought it would be in my house," she said.

"It is dangerous and I don't think people know that this can happen. The fire brigade said that the battery was not compatible which caused the fire.

"Imagine if it happened at night - it could have been so much worse. It is meant to be safer than smoking but can be so dangerous if it can explode like that."

Susan said she was glad she had taken her younger daughters to work with her, delivering parcels for Hermes.

She added: "I was at work delivering and I had a phone call off my neighbour saying that the house was on fire.

"I frantically tried to return as quickly as possible and I turned up and saw the fire brigade there and saw that my daughter was being attended to by the ambulance crew.

"The firefighter told me what happened. My daughter and her boyfriend were in the bedroom. He vapes and was trying to set up a vape pen and put the battery in and it exploded in his hand.

"He threw it and it went on to the head of the bed and it engulfed from there. They are 15 and 16 so are still children and didn't know what to do.

"I might have tried to grab it and get it out of the window but they went downstairs for water and then realised that they couldn't get back up.

"They were extremely distressed which is just heartbreaking - they are still suffering. It's emotional damage now with them - my daughter is having nightmares."

The family are currently staying in a bed and breakfast which. is being provided by her landlord's insurance company.

But Susan said they are struggling to find new rental accommodation as they have two dogs, who were saved from the fire by Susan's daughter's boyfriend.

"It was an accident and even though it was my daughter's boyfriend's device that caused the fire, we don't blame him at all, she said.

"His family are trying to help which we really appreciate.

"Our landlord says we can come back when the repairs are done but we might be in another contract when it's done. He's a fantastic guy and has been really helpful."

Susan, who has set up a GoFundMe page to raise donations towards the family rebuilding their lives., said she was grateful for the immense support shown by the community so far.

She said: "I've never asked anyone for anything and find it difficult to reach out but have accepted that I need help. There aren't words to express how grateful we are to everyone who has tried to help us.

"The British Red Cross have helped us too and have been amazing.

"The local community have been so kind and have really come together to help us in any way they can."

Tettenhall fire tweeted after the incident: "Purple Watch attended a bedroom fire in Codsall this morning which was caused by using an incompatible battery for a vape.

"Fire was extinguished but caused substantial damage to the rest of the house. Please be cautious when charging electrical products."

You can view the GoFundMe page here.

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Mum's warning after vape 'exploded' in teen's hand and destroyed her Wolverhampton home - Birmingham Live

Objectives: Lung cancer is the most common cause of cancer mortality worldwide and, while tobacco smoke remains the primary cause, there is increasing concern that vaping and E-cigarette use may also increase lung cancer risk. This review concentrates on the current data, scholarship and active foci of research regarding potential cancer risk and oncogenic mechanisms of vaping and lung cancer.

Materials and methods: We performed a literature review of current and historical publications on lung cancer oncogenesis, vaping device/e-liquid contents and daughter products, molecular oncogenic mechanisms and the fundamental, potentially oncogenic, effects of electronic cigarette smoke/e-liquid products.

Results: E-cigarette devices and vaping fluids demonstrably contain a series of both definite and probable oncogens including nicotine derivatives (e.g. nitrosnornicotine, nitrosamine ketone), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, heavy metals (including organometal compounds) and aldehydes/other complex organic compounds. These arise both as constituents of the e-liquid (with many aldehydes and other complex organics used as flavourings) and as a result of pyrolysis/complex organic reactions in the electronic cigarette device (including unequivocal carcinogens such as formaldehyde - formed from pyrolysis of glycerol). Various studies demonstrate in vitro transforming and cytotoxic activity of these derivatives. E-cigarette device use has been significantly increasing - particularly amongst the younger cohort and non-smokers; thus, this is an area of significant concern for the future.

Conclusion: Although research remains somewhat equivocal, there is clear reason for concern regarding the potential oncogenicity of E-Cigarettes/E-Liquids with a strong basic and molecular science basis. Given lag times (extrapolating from tobacco smoke data) of perhaps 20 years, this may have significant future public health implications. Thus, the authors feel further study in this field is strongly warranted and consideration should be made for tighter control and regulation of these products.

Keywords: Electronic cigarette; Lung cancer; Vaping; e-Cig; e-Liquid.

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The Silver Consolidated Schools Board of Education opened the new year with an opportunity to attack a relatively new problem the growing use of nicotine-containing vaping devices by underage students.Attorney William B. Shinoff, with the Frantz Law Group out of California, attended the school board meeting remotely to speak about ongoing lawsuits seeking to combat vaping in schools.I currently represent over 650 school districts across the country in this litigation against Juul Labs and Altria, Shinoff said. The two defendants in this case are Juul, which is the major vaping manufacturer in this country, and Altria which many of you might know as Philip Morris who owned 25 percent of Juul. This case is focused on the issue of the companies intentionally marketing their product to children, and as a result, we now have a new generation of nicotine addicts.Shinoff asked board members to consider allowing him to file a suit on the districts behalf.This case, to make sure its clear, is not a class action, he said. This is whats called a mass action, so each school district thats involved in this case has their own lawsuit on file.If we decide to move forward with this, how will we hear about updates? said board Vice President Michelle Diaz. What will be the ongoing communication?I try to do written updates to at least the superintendent to pass on to the board every month or two, and then I try to get in front of the board every three to four months to be able to provide updates on how the case is going, Shinoff said.Since Mondays meeting was the first of the year, recently reelected board members Patrick Cohn, Ashley Montenegro and Diaz were all sworn in by Grant County Magistrate Judge Maurine Laney, and the board elected officers. Diaz moved to nominate Montenegro as president, with Mike McMillan seconding.Thank you for the nomination. It has been a privilege to serve as your president, and a privilege to work with the administration, and I would accept that nomination, Montenegro said. I enjoy working with this board and the administration team, and serving the public.For vice president, McMillan moved to nominate Diaz, with a second from board member Eddie Flores. Diaz nominated Cohn as board secretary, with a second from McMillan.Associate Superintendent for Instruction Cindy Barris shared her thoughts on the recent passing of a beloved former Silver High teacher, Nathan Nolan.The district would like to continue to send its condolences to the Nolan family, as well as all of their friends, she said. The impact of a teacher knows no bounds, so I got the privilege and honor to attend the celebration of life. There were just a million walks of life. The number of people that he impacted and will continue to impact is just phenomenal.Silver High School students art could be seen hung around the room during the meeting Monday.We wanted to continue to showcase the excellence that is taking place across the district, said Superintendent William Hawkins. In our various fields over the course of the fall semester, we had the opportunity to celebrate those students and their success, both last year and current year, extracurricular and academic.Board members also heard a presentation on the ALICE Program, which is meant to prepare students for the unthinkable, according to Associate Superintendent Louis Alvarez, who led the discussion.The program is active shooter training, and we pray that we never have to use this but if we do, we want to be prepared, Alvarez said. You can see that active shooters end up happening everywhere. Mesilla Valley Mall had an active shooter a week ago. These kinds of things are going to be taking place everywhere, so the best thing that we can do is prepare our staff and prepare our students, and thats what we are doing with ALICE.The board also heard their monthly update on coronavirus in the district, which included last weeks update to the New Mexico Public Education Departments COVID-19 Toolkit, which dictates how schools address the pandemic.The changes that have occurred in the toolkit include a reduction of self-isolation and quarantine from 10 days to five days, Hawkins said. The isolation should last at least five days after the onset of symptoms, and until the individual is fever-free for 24 hours without the use of fever-reducing medications. If you are symptomatic in any way, shape or form, or if youre still using medications to keep your fever down after five days, you are expected to not report to school or work, according to the toolkit. If you havent developed any symptoms after five days, you are able to return. Both the isolation number of days and the quarantine number of days have been reduced to five.Also, according to Hawkins, at the beginning next week, PCR tests will no longer be accepted for COVID-19 surveillance testing or for Test to Stay. Rapid antigen tests will be required for those two COVID-19 testing applications.At least part of this change relates to the shortage of tests throughout New Mexico.Last week, there were several mornings where we were on the verge of running out of tests and had to get deliveries from Albuquerque to Las Cruces to Silver, Hawkins said. It wasnt for a lack of contacting the provider of testing, its simply a scarcity of tests and the difficulty of getting them shipped in.The board is scheduled to meet again Feb. 21 at 5:30 p.m.Jordan Archunde may be reached at [emailprotected] press.com.

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Silver school board hears pitch to join anti-vaping lawsuit - Silver City Daily Press and Independent

A US study has found that current e-cigarette users were 34% more likely to experience visual impairment than those who had never vaped

A new study published in American Journal of Ophthalmology has highlighted a link between vaping and the risk of developing visual impairment.

Researchers reviewed the data of 1,173,646 US adults aged 18 and older who were asked if they were blind or had serious difficulty seeing, even when wearing glasses.

The group were also questioned about whether they were former or current users of e-cigarettes, or had never used the device.

The scientists found that those who were current e-cigarette users had a 34% higher risk of being visually impaired when compared to those who had never tried e-cigarettes.

Former e-cigarette users had a 14% higher risk of visual impairment than those who had never vaped.

The authors qualified their research by highlighting: Given the strong association between tobacco smoking and other behaviours like alcohol use, a future study is needed to determine the independent risk of e-cigarette smoking on visual impairment

A previous study published in Optometry and Vision Science in 2019 explored whether there was a connection between dry eye disease and e-cigarette use.

Comparing a group of 21 vapers to 21 non-smokers, researchers found that the e-cigarette users displayed moderate-to-severe symptomatic dry eye and poorer tear film quality compared with non-smokers.

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Vaping associated with risk of sight loss - AOP

Vaping the use of electronic cigarettes poses significant health risks to young people. According to the 2021 National Youth Tobacco Survey released by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, over 2 million middle and high schoolers currently use e-cigarettes, 85% use flavored e-cigarettes and nearly one in four youth vape daily.

Although e-cigarettes do not contain tobacco, most contain nicotine derived from tobacco. Nicotine and vapor exposure put your childs dental health at risk reducing saliva, causing dry mouth and promoting increased bacteria, tooth decay and chronic bad breath. Other risks include mouth ulcers, tissue inflammation, gum disease and recession even potential tooth and bone loss.

Nicotine exposure during a childs adolescence can also cause addiction and long-term harm to brain development, which can have long-lasting effects on mood, impulse control, attention and learning.

E-cigarettes impact respiratory health as well. The vaping aerosol contains metals, volatile compounds and ultrafine particles that can be inhaled deep into growing lungs.

Vaping is harmful. Education is vital. Talk with tweens, teens and young adults about the serious dangers. Reach out to your family dentist or physician for resources and assistance in helping your child steer clear of vaping.

Ron Inge, DDS, is chief dental officer, chief operating officer and vice president of professional services at Delta Dental of Missouri.

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Protect your child by knowing the dangers of vaping - Columbia Missourian

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In its continued efforts to protect the public, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is strengthening its warning to consumers to stop using vaping products containing THC amid more than 1,000 reports of lung injuriesincluding some resulting in deathsfollowing the use of vaping products. The FDA is working closely with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as well as state and local public health partners to investigate these illnesses as quickly as possible.

While the work by federal and state health officials to identify more information about the products used, where they were obtained, and what substances they contain is ongoing, the FDA is providing members of the public with additional information to help protect themselves.

A majority of the samples tested by the states or by the FDA related to this investigation have been identified as vaping products containing THC. Through this investigation, we have also found most of the patients impacted by these illnesses reported using THC-containing products, suggesting THC vaping products play a role in the outbreak.

More information is needed to better understand whether there is a relationship between any specific products or substances and the reported illnesses. To help gather and analyze as much information as possible, the FDA is working closely with federal and state partners to identify the products or substances that may be causing the illnesses.

The FDAs Forensic Chemistry Center is using state-of-the-art technology to analyze hundreds of samples submitted by a number of states for the presence of a broad range of chemicals, including nicotine, THC, other cannabinoids, and opioids along with cutting agents/diluents and other additives, pesticides, poisons, heavy metals and toxins.

No one substance has been identified in all of the samples tested. Importantly, identifying any compounds that are present in the samples will be one piece of the puzzle but will not necessarily answer questions about what is causing these illnesses.

Federal and state partners are following any potential leads. The FDA is committed to taking appropriate actions as the facts emerge and keeping the public informed as we have more information to share.

CDC and the FDA encourage the public to provide detailed information related to any unexpected tobacco- or e-cigarette-related health or product issues to the FDA via the online Safety Reporting Portal.

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