electronic cigarettes
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Mom is Outraged After Her 5-Year-Old Son is Forced to Vape at School
The child’s mother wants to know why her son was left unattended and says she no longer feels her kids are safe at school
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FDA Says Menthol Cigarette Ban Won’t Target Black Smokers
Menthols are primarily marketed mainly to Black consumers.
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Maryland Officers Caught on Video Tasing and Kneeing Black Teens While Enforcing Anti-Vape Laws on the Boardwalk
One video shows a Black teen with his hands raised being tased by an officer within a second of one of his arms lowering.
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Menthol Cigarettes Were Aggressively Marketed to Black People. Now Congress Is Looking to Ban Them
Kool cigarettes have undergone more makeovers than the Kardashians. Initially, they used a cartoon penguin named “Willie,” who was a chef, a soldier and a doctor. Then, in the 1960s, they kicked Willie out into the cold and tried using a country frost approach that included images of water and snow. Then in the 1970s…
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Federal Government Bans Smoking in Public Housing Nationwide
A new federal rule announced Wednesday will ban smoking in all public housing residences nationwide. The new rule will take effect early next year, but public housing agencies could take up to a year and a half to fully implement the smoke-free policies. The rule would ban “cigarettes, cigars, pipes and hookahs (or water pipes)—but…