The Monroe News: In 2023, when nationally recognized speaker Officer Jermaine Galloway visited Monroe County, he said vaping is now an epidemic among American youth.
MLIVE: Ann Arbor is calling on the Michigan Legislature to end the sale of flavored tobacco products, including menthol cigarettes, or at least give the city the power the ban them locally.
CBS Detroit: The Washtenaw County Board of Commissioners approved during its June meeting on Wednesday a resolution to ban the sale of flavored tobacco products across the state.
The Detroit News: Kassie Weje, a 16-year-old junior at University High School in Ferndale, said her little sister was first exposed to other kids vaping at school when she was in fifth grade.
Detroit Today: Guest host Nick Austin explores how Americans moved away from cigarettes and why younger people have been hooked on e-cigarettes and vape pens.
Grand Rapids: Research shows that 1 in 5 of our youth is vaping. Some of those kids are as young as 2nd or 3rd grade, who are already addicted to vaping.
INSIDER - One tobacco giant — Reynolds American — is actively spreading millions of dollars to hundreds of state-level political candidates and political action committees, according to an internal corporate governance document reviewed by Insider.
Michigan Health Watch: A three-judge panel of the Michigan Court of Appeals upheld a Court of Claims preliminary injunction against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s September public emergency that banned flavored vaping products — products that Whitmer and the state’s health department argued lured young people into unhealthy, addictive habits.
The Daily Mining Gazette: The U.S. Congress on April 22, 2021 introduced a proposal to to establish the first federal e-cigarette tax in history, while at the same time, raising the tobacco tax.
University of Michigan News: Banning menthol flavors in cigarettes could reduce smoking by 15% by having smokers giving up tobacco products altogether or switching to e-cigarettes and other nicotine vaping products—avoiding 16,250 tobacco-related deaths per year by 2060, according to a new University of Michigan study.
The Detroit News: The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services this week abruptly pulled back rules that would have banned the sale of flavored nicotine products in Michigan.
The Oakland Press: Justin Kakuda, a senior at Avondale High School in Auburn Hills, submitted the winning design. More than 100 shirts with his design will be distributed to local youth by the Alliance’s affiliates to raise awareness.
The Detroit News: The Michigan Senate approved a six-bill package Wednesday that would impose an 18% tax on the liquid nicotine solution used in electronic cigarettes and would specifically allow individuals to sell flavored vaping products.
Detroit Metro Times: Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s motion to reinstate a ban on flavored vaping nicotine products has been denied by the Michigan Supreme Court. The 6-1 decision last week ruled against Whitmer’s request “because the Court is not persuaded that the question presented should be reviewed by this Court before consideration by the Court of Appeals.”
Michigan.gov: Tylise Black, PAVe Parent Advocate, she testified before the Michigan House of Representatives Regulatory Reform Committee on June 23, 2020. Testimony starts at 1:08:08.
University of Michigan: Social factors drive use of Juul and other e-cigarette products, text-based survey shows, despite widespread understanding by young people of the risks of vaping
