Nicotine Coverage

Federal law adds age requirement to purchase of cigarettes, vaping products
A new federal law has prohibited the sale of e-cigarettes and nicotine cigarettes to people under the age of 21. But not many people know about it.

Fighting e-cigarettes: 7 things every parent needs to know about vaping
The dangerous health effects of vaping have been making headlines. Experts from the Poe Center for Health Education share the seven things parents need to know.

Health leaders warn of vaping dangers
Officials say the country is currently experiencing a multi-state outbreak of severe lung disease. For more than 10 years in the United States, the vaping industry boomed in North Carolina and across the country, partly due to the belief that vaping is safer than smoking.

Just stop: Vaping and e-cigarettes causing lung disease across the US, CDC warns
New warnings about electronic cigarettes from the CDC as well as many state and local health departments have doctors concerned.

Nicotine toothpicks raise concern
Makers of nicotine-infused toothpicks claim they help adults quit smoking, but others worry they could introduce children and teens to a new addiction.

Doctors: E-cigarettes hook whole new generation
Despite the government shutdown, the Food and Drug Administration moved forward Friday with a public hearing about how to help teenagers get over their addition to nicotine in e-cigarettes.