San Francisco Chronicle: San Francisco’s upcoming ban on the sale of e-cigarettes will remain in place, as voters soundly rejected a ballot measure Tuesday that would have overturned the prohibition approved by the Board of Supervisors in June.
Read MoreCNBC: Carl Quintanilla investigates the rapidly growing and controversial e-cigarette industry, a market expected to hit $9 billion by the end of 2019.
Read MoreThe Conversationalist Podcast: This week we are talking about the vaping epidemic in our country with Parents Against Vaping co-founders Meredith Berkman and Dorian Fuhrman, and Dr. Jonathan Avery from Cornell Weill hospital.
Read MoreNJTV News: On Monday, Congressman Frank Pallone unveiled new legislation to address the youth e-cigarette crisis in the country.
Read MoreScholastic Choices: The e-cigarette company says its products are for adults, but behind the smokescreen is the truth: It’s been after YOU—and your money—all along.
Read MoreWIRED: Vaping opponents criticize plan to continue selling the popular mint and menthol flavors.
Read MoreUSA Today: Don't be fooled. The e-cigarette company clings to mint and menthol, the flavors youth like most, as the clock ticks on Trump’s proposed flavor ban.
Read MoreNPR: Ruby Johnson, whose daughter was recently hospitalized with a respiratory illness from vaping, testified before a House Oversight subcommittee hearing on lung disease and e-cigarettes on Capitol Hill Tuesday.
Read MoreWashington Post: Far more careful on social media than her husband, the first lady even recently tweeted about the dangers of flavored e-cigarettes. The rare policy stance earned praise from Meredith Berkman, co-founder of Parents Against Vaping E-cigarettes.
Read MoreThe Wall Street Journal: Meredith Berkman, Dorian Fuhrman and Dina Alessi founded the group Parents Against Vaping E-cigarettes because they were concerned about the marketing of flavored e-cigarettes to children, including their own teenage sons.
Read MoreNow This News: Republican and Democratic lawmakers are uniting with anti-vaping advocates to launch a congressional caucus with the goal of ending the youth vaping epidemic.
Read MoreWIRED: Regulators say Juul hasn't proved its claim that e-cigarettes are safer than tobacco, and uses misleading appeals to kids.
Read MoreCBS News: Eight deaths in the U.S. are now blamed on vaping, with the latest happening in Missouri.
Read MoreWIRED: That’s why all those weird, possibly toxic flavorings are allowed—and the lax regulatory environment goes back a century.
Read MoreTime Magazine: To a remarkable degree, a single company is front and center in one of the biggest public-health crises facing the country: the sharp rise in vaping among teenagers and young adults.
Read MoreNew York Times: More than three-fourths of those sickened are male, health officials said, and half are under 25. Missouri reported the eighth death linked to vaping during this summer’s crisis.
Read MoreCNBC: Juul has not complied with a Congressional probe, a House panel wrote in a letter to the company Wednesday.
Read MoreFox News: Teen anti-vaping advocate Caleb Mintz and his mom, Parents Against Vaping E-Cigarettes co-founder Meredith Berkman, tell their story on 'America's Newsroom.'
Read MoreNY Post: Same box — right down to the warning on the front and back that “This product contains nicotine. Nicotine is an addictive chemical.”
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