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A 15-year-old in Cambridge, Mass., shows off her vaping device in 2018. Schools and health officials across the U.S. are struggling to curb what they say is an epidemic of underage vaping.

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Health & Safety

Cigarettes Can't Be Advertised On TV. Should Juul Ads Be Permitted?

12:16pm August 20, 2019

by Michelle Andrews

Though tobacco ads have been banned from TV for about 50 years, the marketing of electronic cigarettes isn't constrained by the law. Public health advocates consider that a loophole that hurts kids.

Nicotine, heavy metals and tiny particles that can harm the lungs have been found in e-cigarette aerosol, according to the surgeon general.

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National

June Ballot Measure Would Ban All Flavored Tobacco Products In San Francisco

6:48pm May 16, 2018

by Lesley McClurg

City supervisors tried to ban menthol cigarettes and vape flavors in 2017, but tobacco purveyors funded a drive to put the measure to voters instead. Now dueling ads vie for hearts and minds.

Advertisements paid for by tobacco companies say their products are deadly and were manipulated to be more addictive.

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Health & Safety

In Ads, Tobacco Companies Admit They Made Cigarettes More Addictive

10:36pm November 27, 2017

A federal judge ordered tobacco companies to pay for ads warning that their products are deadly and that they manipulated them to be addictive. But the form of the ads may be dulling their effect.

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