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Heads Up – News – Updates 8.27.2019

Heads Up! for St. Paul, Minnesota. Experts in UK weigh in on US hospitalizations. Snus and tobacco-free pouches may be the next big smoking alternatives. Lake Forest, Minnesota and Van Buren, Arkansas deny 18-20 year old adults who smoke access to safer alternatives, while Hutchinson, Minnesota declines.

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IN THE NEWS: UK experts react to reporting “vaping” as cause of recent illness outbreak, death in US. “These [reports] must be investigated as a matter of urgency. However, it is not good practice to assume a causal link ahead of such an investigation.”

expert reaction to death in Illinois reported as being linked to vaping | Science Media Centre


VAN BUREN, ARKANSAS: (UPDATE) If you’re 18 – 20 years old, you can vote, get married, go into debt & fight for your country, but you won’t be able to buy the low risk vapor/alternative tobacco products that helped you quit smoking!

Van Buren passes new age restrictions on tobacco


SMOKE-FREE ALTERNATIVES: “Snus may be a weird-sounding cigarette alternative at the moment, but along with tobacco-free nicotine pouches like Zyn, this could be where the industry’s next big growth spurt comes from.”

And no, it DOESN’T cause oral cancer.

This Under-the-Radar Smoking Alternative Could Be Bigger Than E-Cigs | The Motley Fool


FOREST LAKE, MINNESOTA: (UPDATE) If you’re 18 – 20 years old, you can vote, get married, go into debt & fight for your country, but you won’t be able to buy the low risk vapor/alternative tobacco products that helped you quit smoking!

Forest Lake approves Tobacco 21 policy


ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA: (HEADS UP!) If you’re 18 – 20 years old, you can vote, get married, go into debt & fight for your country, but if this law passes, you won’t be able to buy the low risk vapor/alternative tobacco products that helped you quit smoking!

St. Paul poised to raise tobacco-buying age to 21


HUTCHINSON, MINNESOTA: (UPDATE) City DECLINES renewed discussion of Tobacco/Vapor 21, allowing adults 18-20 continued access (for now) to the far safer alternatives that helped them quit smoking.

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