Marty Makary is resigning as President Donald Trump's Food and Drug Administration chief. The surgeon and health researcher's tenure had drawn complaints from pharmaceutical executives, anti-abortion activists and other Trump allies. The President said Tuesday that Makary “was having some difficulty” but ”he’s going to go on and he’s going to do well.” Makary came to prominence as an outspoken critic of public health measures during the COVID pandemic, when he appeared on Fox News Channel. But at the FDA, Makary failed to win the staff's confidence after mass layoffs, leadership changes and a series of controversies involving vaccines, drugs and electronic cigarettes.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday announced its first authorization of fruit-flavored electronic cigarettes intend…
FILE - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration building is seen behind FDA logos at a bus stop on the agency's campus in Silver Spring, Md., Aug. 2, 2018. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
Parliament has passed a bill to make cigarettes inaccessible to future generations in the U.K. Children born after Dec. 31, 2008, will never be able to buy cigarettes under the new Tobacco and Vapes Bill. The legislation, approved Tuesday, awaits formal approval by King Charles III. It will also regulate tobacco, vaping, and nicotine products. The UK will have one of the toughest antismoking measures globally. Smoking rates have declined since the 1970s, but 13% of the population still smokes. Authorities say smoking causes 80,000 deaths annually in Britain.
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The Washoe County School District already has policies against vaping, but every couple of years, some changes need to be made as popularity grows.
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The decision doesn't mean that Zyn is safe, just less harmful than older alternatives.
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The case comes shortly before the second Trump administration could change the FDA's approach.
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This year's decline was mainly driven by a half-million fewer high school students who reported using e-cigarettes in the past month.
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Washoe County leaders met Monday to work towards taking the necessary steps to end vaping and the use of e-cigarettes by students both in and out of schools.
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In honor of World Lung Day medical students from the University of Nevada and medical staff with Renown Health went to area high schools to discuss the effects of vaping with students.