E-Cigarettes

Kristi Berche of the Fairhaven Smoke Shop worries that the FDA's ban on Juul e-cigarette products will hurt smokers looking to quit as well as business.

The new rules approved on Dec. 11 put an end to the vaping sales ban imposed by Gov. Charlie Baker.

The Mass House voted to ban the sale of flavored vaping and tobacco products – including mint and menthol cigarettes – and to impose an excise tax on e-cigs.

This ban on vaping is ridiculous and in my opinion an example of the government nanny state at its worst.

Your right to vape in this country is in serious danger! Draconian regulations are coming down thanks to Democrats, Big Tobacco and the Giant Pharma industry.

UMass Dartmouth officials and students have been working for a year to make the university smoke and tobacco-free. Now its official. As of June 1st, the campus has been declared smoke, tobacco and e-cigarette-free. University spokesman John Hoey tells WBSM News, "its not about the prohibition as much as it is about the education...

It's good news that many middle school kids aren't smoking traditional cigarettes as much anymore. Instead, they've swapped a Marlboro for an e-cigarette! Federal data just found a sharp increase in e-cigarette use among teenagers, which tripled among middle and high school students from 2013 to 2014...

Attorney General Maura Healey is proposing regulations that would ban the sale of electronic cigarettes to minors. The regulation would also prohibit free giveaways of the devices and require they be kept out of the reach of customers...

Smokers who use electronic cigarettes are 60-percent more likely to quit than those who use patches, gum, or just willpower.

Forty attorneys general are urging the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to meet its own deadline and regulate electronic cigarettes in the same way it regulates tobacco products.       The letter dated Tuesday is co-sponsored by Massachusetts Attorney Martha Coakley and Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine...