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AVA Releases COVID-19 Best Practices Guide for Vape Shops

In collaboration with our friends at the Vaping Industry Trade Association of Canada (VITA), the American Vaping Association is proud to release a guide for U.S. vape shops on safely opening stores to the general public during COVID-19. The best practices guide and summary sheets for staff and consumers were created by VITA in collaboration […]

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After Three Years, FDA Authorizes ‘Reduced Exposure’ Claims for PMI’s IQOS

WASHINGTON, D.C. — This morning, after an unnecessarily prolonged three year process, the Food & Drug Administration authorized Philip Morris International to market IQOS and its related tobacco and menthol Heatsticks with truthful reduced exposure claims, while simultaneously rejecting PMI’s request to make claims that the product reduces risk in adult smokers who completely switch […]

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Vapers on Vaping

Smoked since 14 quit at 22

I had been smoking since the age of 14, I had gotten up to 2 packs a day. I decided to stop in my local vape shop in Colorado (Vapor Source) and picked up a vape, and started at a 12 nic, before I knew it I was stepping down to a 6 and then […]

Anthony
Mitchell
California

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Vaping Research

The effect of e-cigarette aerosol emissions on respiratory health: a narrative review

ABSTRACT Introduction: Due to the uptake in the use of e-cigarettes (ECs), evidence on their health effects is needed to inform health care and policy. Some regulators and health professionals have raised concerns that the respirable aerosols generated by ECs contain several constituents of potential toxicological and biological relevance to respiratory health. Areas covered: We […]

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