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PublishedDecember 15, 2023
Fewer Maine teens vaping, but mental health struggles remain common, survey shows
Results from the Maine Integrated Youth Health Survey were released Friday.
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PublishedSeptember 12, 2023
School districts grapple with vaping in high schools
Some are considering installing vape detectors in restrooms, but there is no easy solution for what some educators consider a public health crisis.
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PublishedJune 21, 2023
Maine Senate votes to ban flavored tobacco products
The bill sponsored by Sen. Jill Duson, D-Portland, would ban flavors such as mint, fruit, chocolate, menthol, vanilla and honey in all tobacco, including vaping products.
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PublishedJanuary 29, 2023
Cavalier attitudes about vaping, marijuana raise fears about teen health
Smoking and drinking have declined among Maine youths in recent years, but the percentage of high schoolers who said they vaped in the past 30 days rose from 16.8% in 2015 to 30.2% in 2019.
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PublishedOctober 25, 2022
Brunswick High reports decline in vaping following flavored tobacco ban, but there might be other reasons
Fewer Brunswick High School students have been caught vaping this fall, but some teens remain hooked on nicotine, according to administrators.
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PublishedJuly 29, 2022
Local coalition working to bring awareness to dangers of vaping
The use of e-cigarette and vaping products, such as Juul, "exploded" among middle and high schoolers during the pandemic, said the director of Healthy Androscoggin.
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PublishedMay 11, 2022
Brunswick vapers look elsewhere
Vape stores in other cities already are seeing more Brunswick customers in the weeks before Brunswick's flavored tobacco and nicotine ban goes into effect.
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PublishedJune 28, 2021
Juul to pay $40 million in North Carolina teen vaping suit settlement
Juul also faces hundreds of personal injury lawsuits from customers and families of young people who said they were hurt or addicted by the company’s products.
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PublishedFebruary 8, 2021
Maine group pushes ban on flavored tobacco products
A coalition of health and social justice advocates says many of the flavored and metholated products are designed to appeal to children, especially in communities of color.
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PublishedJanuary 2, 2020
FDA bars sales of most e-cigarette pod flavors after 30 days
The ban affects the fruit- and mint-flavored pods but does not apply to menthol- or tobacco-flavored cartridges.
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