Illinois Senate to consider bill raising the minimum vaping, smoking age to 21
At 18 years old, you can vote, drive a car and go to war, but soon you may not be able to purchase tobacco and nicotine products in Illinois until you are 21.
E-cigs outperform patches and gums in quit-smoking study
A major new study provides the strongest evidence yet that vaping can help smokers quit cigarettes, with e-cigarettes proving nearly twice as effective as nicotine gums and patches.
Fire breaks out inside plane after passenger's vape overheats at O'Hare
An American Airlines passenger’s electronic cigarette combusted Friday night, prompting a small fire shortly after the plane landed at O’Hare International Airport.
Dramatic jump in teen e-cigarette and vaping use, though cocaine and alcohol use down: study
Twice as many high school students used nicotine-tinged electronic cigarettes this year compared with last year, an unprecedented jump in a large annual survey of teen smoking, drinking and drug use.
North Port man badly burned in vape pen explosion
Working with glass and metal comes with its own safety code at Euro-Wall in North Port, but it's what happened inside an office that's caught many off guard. One of the company’s managers had just sat down when his vape pen exploded in his pocket.
Juul halts store sales of some flavored e-cigarettes
The nation's leading e-cigarette maker is halting store sales of some flavors to deter use by kids.
FDA to restrict e-cigarette flavors to fight vaping 'epidemic'
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration plans to require strict limits on the sale of most flavored e-cigarettes, including age verification controls for online sales, in an effort to curtail their use among children and teenagers.
Chicago mayor looks to curb youth smoking, e-cigarette use
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel says he's proposing new measures aimed at cutting down on youth smoking, vaping and electronic cigarette use.
2M US teens use vaping to smoke marijuana, survey finds
A school-based survey shows nearly 1 in 11 U.S. students have used marijuana in electronic cigarettes, heightening concern about the new popularity of vaping among teens.
Virginia woman badly burned by vaping device, airlifted to hospital, police say
A Springfield woman was airlifted to the hospital Saturday after authorities say her vaping device blew up, leaving her badly burned.
Woman claims second-degree burns from exploding vape batteries
A Bay Area woman has severe burns and bruises after she says two batteries for a vape device exploded inside her purse.
Autopsy shows exploding vape pen, not fire, killed St. Pete man
The autopsy report for a man whose vape pen exploded, causing a fire in his St. Petersburg home, shows the exploding pen -- not the fire -- killed him.
Exploding vape pen may have killed Florida man, started fire
A deadly fire in St. Petersburg, Florida, was likely started by an exploding vape pen.
A problem on the rise: The dangers of vaping
It's just as dangerous as cigarettes in many ways but most kids don't realize it.
Teens using e-cigarettes for ‘dripping' liquid nicotine
A new study finds that one in four teens that use electronic cigarettes have tried “dripping” liquid nicotine onto the heating coils of the e-cigs, which results in thicker clouds of vapor.
Surgeon General sounding alarm on teens' use of e-cigarettes
The U.S. surgeon general is calling e-cigarettes an emerging public health threat to the nation's youth.
Man claims e-cigarette battery exploded in his pocket, suffers 2nd degree burns
A man is giving up vaping after a horrific experience. The battery belonging to his e-cigarette exploded in his pocket, started a fire and burned his body.
Vaping may be as harmful to heart as smoking, study finds
The health risks of using e-cigarettes remain murky due to a lack of conclusive research, but scientists who conducted a recent study on the devices’ possible heart effects are warning they may be “far more dangerous” than previously thought. In fact, vaping may pose the same harms to the heart as smoking tobacco cigarettes.
14-year-old boy left blinded after e-cigarette explodes at mall
A 14-year-old has been blinded in one eye and potentially faces permanent damage to his hands after allegedly testing an e-cigarette at a mall kiosk in Brooklyn, New York.
E-cig battery explodes in man's pocket
A Splendora man is badly burned when the battery to his electronic cigarette exploded in his pants. Not only did his leg catch on fire, but so did part of the vehicle he was driving.