Slow burn: tobacco control in the Americas

As regulators focus their attention on chemicals of emerging concern, also known as contaminants of emerging concern (CECs), organizations across the chemical industry are facing an uncertain and rapidly evolving regulatory environment.A Journal of Hazardous Materials report found that about 40,000 compounds with CEC potential have been i...

More than 20 percent of high school students use electronic cigarettes, risking nicotine addiction, lung damage and the temptation to try traditional smokes, U.S. health officials reported Thursday.Between 2011 and 2018, the number of high school teens who started vaping, as e-cigarette use is called, increased from 220,000 (1.5 percent) to just ov...

In the fight against the rise of underage tobacco use, the Food and Drug Administration on Thursday announced widespread regulations against e-cigarette and tobacco companies.In a statement on the agency's website, Scott Gottlieb, FDA Commissioner, said the agency will limit sales of flavored e-cigarette pods to in-person stores...

Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released new findings from the National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS) showing that more than 3.6 million middle and high school students were current (past 30 day) e-cigarette users in 2018, a dramatic increase of more than 1.5 million students sinc...

The Canadian government has published its final regulations on asbestos (Prohibition of Asbestos and Products Containing Asbestos Regulations: SOR/2018-196) in the Canada Gazette and introduced new export limitations.The regulations prohibit the import, sale, and use of asbestos and products containing asbestos....