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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,” […]

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 […]

NEW YORK — As more states make it legal to smoke marijuana, some government officials, researchers and others worry what that might mean for one of the country’s biggest public health successes: curbing cigarette smoking. Though there are notable differences in health research findings on tobacco and marijuana, the juxtaposition strikes some as jarring after […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

DENVER — Colorado is ranked as one of the healthiest states in the nation, yet new studies show teens here use e-cigarettes at an alarming rate, twice as much as teens in any other state. A recent Healthy Kids Colorado survey reveals while only seven percent of high school students smoke cigarettes, 27 percent say […]

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 […]

HONOLULU — “The legislature finds that the cigarette is considered the deadliest artifact in human history.” So begins the text of a new bill introduced in Hawaii’s State House, calling for a phased ban on cigarette sales in the state by 2024. Hawaii has some of the most restrictive cigarette laws in the nation. In 2016, it became the […]

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 […]

Amazon Alexa in your car… who needs that?  That was my first thought.  Then I installed it and started to realize, it actually makes sense!  The new Garmin Speak Plus with Amazon Alexa puts the power of Alexa, Garmin navigation and a dash camera on your windshield.  Best of all, it’s in a tiny little […]