MASSACHUSETTS ATTORNEY GENERAL Maura Healey on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the e-cigarette giant JUUL Labs, alleging that the company intentionally created the epidemic of youth vaping by marketing and […]
Vaping
Posted inEconomy
Vaping ban ends with mixed results
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE STATE PUBLIC HEALTH officials acknowledged that they still do not know what is causing lung injuries and illnesses among some people who vape, and reiterated that […]
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Opponents fume over Baker vaping ban
FOR SAFIA JAMIL, the owner of vaping shops in Marlborough and Walpole, the one-two punch of Gov. Charlie Baker’s emergency vaping ban and legislation passed this week to ban all […]
Posted inPolitics
Baker’s vape ban gets a public hearing
State public health officials will hear feedback about Gov. Charlie Baker’s controversial vape ban today, one day after state lawmakers sent the nation’s most stringent restrictions on the sale of […]
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Baker’s vape ban gets a public hearing
State public health officials will hear feedback about Gov. Charlie Baker’s controversial vape ban today, one day after state lawmakers sent the nation’s most stringent restrictions on the sale of […]
Posted inHealth Care
Monica Bharel, realistic optimist
MONICA BHAREL, the state’s public health commissioner, is definitely a glass-half-full type of person. On the Health or Consequences edition of the Codcast with Paul Hattis of Tufts University Medical […]
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Monica Bharel, realistic optimist
Monica Bharel, the state’s public health commissioner, is definitely a glass-half-full type of person. On the Health or Consequences edition of the Codcast with Paul Hattis of Tufts University Medical […]
Posted inHealth Care, State House News Service
Medical marijuana vaping ban up in air
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE WHEN THE CANNABIS CONTROL COMMISSION meets Thursday, it could determine whether Gov. Charlie Baker’s temporary ban on vaping product sales should apply to medical marijuana patients […]
Posted inPolitics, State House News Service
SJC to hear Baker vaping ban case
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE THE SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT has agreed to hear arguments related to Gov. Charlie Baker’s emergency ban on vaping products, elevating to the state’s highest court a […]
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Judge allows Baker vaping ban to continue
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE IN A RULING critical of how Gov. Charlie Baker went about banning the sale of all vaping products for four months, a Superior Court judge on […]
Posted inState House News Service
Woman in her 60s first Mass. vaping fatality
A WOMAN IN HER 60s from Hampshire County has died of a vaping-related lung illness, the first such case in Massachusetts, the Department of Public Health announced Monday afternoon. DPH […]
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Baker vape ban similar to Zohydro order
IT’S MORE THAN a week into a four-month sales ban on all vaping products in Massachusetts, and Gov. Charlie Baker’s administration is already looking at two major lawsuits — one […]
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Baker vape ban similar to Zohydro order
It’s more than a week into a four-month sales ban on all vaping products in Massachusetts, and Gov. Charlie Baker’s administration is already looking at two major lawsuits — one […]
Posted inPolitics, State House News Service
DeLeo eyes comprehensive vaping legislation
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE ON THE HEELS of the state’s new temporary ban on the sale of all vaping products, a legislative committee on Wednesday endorsed a bill prohibiting the […]