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U-Haul recently announced their decision to no longer hire smokers and nicotine users. The new hiring policy will go into effect on Feb. 1.
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.
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.
Susan Foster and Virginia Johnson, Poe Center for Health Education
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.
New warnings about electronic cigarettes from the CDC as well as many state and local health departments have doctors concerned.
Dr. Allen Mask, WRAL medical expert
Makers of nicotine-infused toothpicks claim they help adults quit smoking, but others worry they could introduce children and teens to a new addiction.
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.