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March 13, 2019: The FDA announced premarket approval requirements for all flavored e-cigarette products, with a deadline to file by August 8, 2021. This new deadline is one year earlier than previously proposed. No flavored tobacco products will be allowed on the market if they have not submitted applications to the FDA after this date. The FDA has stated they believe this will cause some flavored tobacco products to no longer be on the market.

The CDC has a new report on tobacco use among minors, and they are sounding the alarm over the results. After years of progress to reduce the amount of teens consuming tobacco, tobacco use rose dramatically in 2018. Vaping in particular exploded upward, 4.9 million high school students now use tobacco products.

William Eric Brown was killed in Forth Worth after an exploding vape sent shrapnel into his head and severed his carotid artery. William was outside a vape shop when the vape pen explosion occurred. This is the second death in two years in the United States from vape explosions.

Judge Burlison, who oversaw the case of 22 women suing Johnson & Johnson (J&J) for ovarian cancer from baby powder, ruled against a motion by J&J to overturn the verdict.

Today Reuters released a large in-depth article about baby powder, Johnson & Johnson, and the hidden risks of cancer.

Uber and Lyft are lauded as making streets safer by keeping drunk drivers off the road. In fact, Uber and Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) released a report in 2015 that said, “Uber is having a meaningful and positive impact on mindsets and the rate of drunk driving.

Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) is a degenerative brain disease found in persons with a history of repetitive brain trauma. Over the past few years, CTE has garnered increased attention due to high profile, professional athletes being diagnosed with the disease. The 2015 film Concussion also increased public awareness

With the return of app-based electric scooter rentals to San Francisco and the proliferation of electric scooters and bikes across the Bay Area and throughout the country, officials are reporting increasing numbers of accidents involving electric bikes and scooters.

The e-cigarette industry adamantly promotes vaping as a safe alternative to smoking regular cigarettes. Not true, according to a study published in the American Journal of Physiology, Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology. The study used mice to compare the relative damage to lungs when exposed to regular cigarettes, e-juice with and without nicotine, and e-juice with both nicotine and flavor-adding chemicals. The study found significant signs of increasing lung damage in mice exposed to e-juice, especially those where e-juice was flavored.

Please join Levin Simes e-cig and vape lawyer Angela Nehmens at Mass Torts Made Perfect. On Friday October 5th at 12:35pm, Angela will run the e-cigarette breakout session and present on the current status of e-cigarette and vape mod litigation.