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Marijuana use among young adults, especially college students, has been steadily increasing, and the numbers are pretty high, according to a new report. The article, published by The American Academy of Pediatrics on Monday, is based on the results of the 2002-2016 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, which examined marijuana and smoked tobacco […]

A shrinking number of well-known companies are still doing business in Russia, even as hundreds have announced plans to curtail ties. Burger King restaurants are open, Eli Lilly is supplying drugs, and PepsiCo is selling milk and baby food, but no more soda. The pace of businesses exiting Russia accelerated over the past week as […]

DENVER — Targeting teen nicotine vaping, Gov. Jared Polis on Wednesday announced a late-session bill to ask Colorado voters to significantly raise taxes on cigarettes and other tobacco products and impose taxes on nicotine vaping devices. “We have a moral imperative to reduce teen smoking and vaping we have a financial imperative for public health,” […]

DENVER — Cannabis advocates are watching closely as state lawmakers consider limits on where e-cigarettes can be used in an effort to combat rising teen use of nicotine-containing vaping devices. A bipartisan bill getting its first hearing Wednesday would add electronic cigarettes and other vaping devices to the Colorado Clean Indoor Air Act, which restricts tobacco use […]

LAKEWOOD, Colo. — A new program in Lakewood hopes to stop teens from using e-cigarettes by requiring any store that sells non-cigarette tobacco products to get a license by the end of the month. “I think it’s typical that kids don’t see the harm, they don’t feel the harm, they don’t understand the long term […]

DENVER — A bill to ban vaping in public spaces where smoking isn’t allowed has cleared its first House committee hearing. The bill would add electronic cigarettes and other vaping devices to the Colorado Clean Indoor Air Act. E-cigarettes heat a nicotine solution into a vapor that’s inhaled. The House Health and Insurance Committee sent the bill […]

FORT WORTH, Texas — A Texas man died of a massive stroke after the e-cigarette he was using exploded and tore his carotid artery. The Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s office says William Brown died in a Fort Worth hospital on Jan. 29 — just weeks before his 25th birthday. The death certificate says he died […]

DENVER — The American Lung Association unveiled its State of Tobacco Control report on Wednesday and gave Colorado a D, citing multiple ways the state didn’t meet its standards for tobacco prevention, funding and limiting access. The American Lung Association looked at data collected and came up with individual grades for various aspects of Colorado’s […]

Oregonians have approved Measure 110, which decriminalizes possession of small amounts of heroin, cocaine, LSD, oxycodone and some other drugs.

DENVER — The Denver Public Health and Environment (DDPHE) proposed a new law Thursday that would make selling tobacco, vape products and smokeless tobacco illegal to anyone under the age of 21. In addition to raising the legal age to purchase e-cigarettes, “Tobacco 21” would also remove the sale of tobacco from vending machines. “Youth […]

NEW ORLEANS — A 30-year-old Spirit Airlines passenger on a flight from Detroit to New Orleans recently got himself banned for life after deciding to take a smoke break in the plane’s bathroom. An attendant on Flight NK 985 told a deputy on Tuesday that she saw him take a drag from an e-cigarette and […]

LONDON – Philip Morris International, the company that sells Marlboro, Chesterfield, Parliaments and other brands internationally, has a new product set to launch in the UK – life insurance. The company says the insurance provider, reviti, will offer “highly competitive” premiums with incentives for quitting cigarettes, or for giving up tobacco and nicotine entirely. Reviti […]