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Battery-powered devices are overheating more often on planes and raising alarm
Devices powered by lithium-ion batteries are overheating more often during airline flights and passengers often put them in checked bags that go into the cargo hold, where a fire might not be detected as quickly. Overheating incidents rose 28% from 2019 to 2023, although such events...
Teen vaping hits 10-year low in the US
WASHINGTON (AP) — Fewer adolescents are vaping this year than at any point in the last decade, government officials reported Thursday, pointing to a shrinking number of high school students who are using Elf Bar and other fruity, unauthorized e-cigarettes. The latest survey numbers...
What to know about delta-8 and other common vape shop drugs
They're sold in gas stations, vape shops, online and in other stores around the country in seemingly countless enticing forms: gummies, chocolate bars, chips. Their packaging lists things like delta-8 THC, micro- and macrodoses of “psychedelics” and “nootropics." These...
EPA takes charge of Detroit-area cleanup of vaping supplies warehouse destroyed by explosions
CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — The federal government is leading a cleanup of the hazardous remains of a Detroit-area storage site for vaping supplies, five months after explosions destroyed the building, sent debris flying for miles and killed a man. Goo Smoke Shop in Macomb...
Ex-council member sentenced for selling vapes with illegal drugs in Mississippi and North Carolina
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — A former city council member from south Mississippi was sentenced Tuesday to six years in federal prison after pleading guilty to a federal conspiracy charge related to running a business that sold illegal drugs. Robert Leon Deming III, 47, pleaded guilty May...
Judge keeps alive Vermont lawsuit that accuses police of force, discrimination against Black teen
A Vermont judge has denied the city of Burlington’s request to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that police used excessive force and discriminated against a Black teenager whose mother had called law enforcement to teach him a lesson about stealing. When the 14-year-old, who has...
Kentucky judge dismisses lawsuit challenging a new law to restrict the sale of vaping products
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A measure passed by Kentucky lawmakers to restrict the sale of vaping products has been upheld by a judge who dismissed a lawsuit that claimed the new law was constitutionally flawed. The action by lawmakers amounted to a "legitimate state interest” and was...
FDA OKs best-selling e-cigarette Vuse Alto, but only in tobacco flavor
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health officials on Thursday authorized sales of the best-selling e-cigarette in the U.S., Vuse Alto, allowing manufacturer Reynolds American to keep the vaping brand on the market for years to come. The Food and Drug Administration decision only applies...