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"headlineText": "Grey matter morphometry in young adult e-cigarette users, tobacco cigarette users & non-using controls",
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"headlineText": "Golden Leaf series: Can industrial hemp replace tobacco for North Carolina farmers?",
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"summary": "\u201cWe need to protect the future of our kids. We need to allow them to experience the things Solomon won\u2019t be able to,\u201d Charlene Zorn said.\r\n\r\n\r\nSolomon \"Solly\" Wynn was a healthy, 15-year-old football player when he developed a vaping habit. Zorn says he got vapes from his friends.\r\n\r\nShe joined Rep. Donnie Loftis, R-Gaston, and Sen. Gale Adcock, D-Wake, in pitching House Bill 430, filed Tuesday which would raise the age to buy tobacco products to 21 and require a tobacco retail sales permit for stores selling vapes and tobacco products.\r\n\r\nOver the course of about a year, Solly developed \"popcorn lung.\"",
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"headlineText": "Heart Association calls on Ohio lawmakers for tobacco tax, CPR in schools",
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"headlineText": "CARVALHO: Why menthol must be included in ban on flavored tobacco",
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"summary": "To effectively address the toll of tobacco in Hawai\u2018i, we must include menthol in any ban on flavored tobacco. Exempting menthol creates a loophole that undermines public health efforts, perpetuates adult nicotine addiction, and will contribute to future youth addiction to nicotine.",
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"headlineText": "Denver store owners submit petitions to remove flavored tobacco ban",
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"summary": "Just one day before a flavored tobacco ban is set to go into effect in Denver, vape and tobacco store owners are hitting back. They are hoping community members can help them overturn the ban at the ballot box.\r\n\r\nVape store owners and manufacturers believe city council members rushed a ban on flavored tobacco purchases as last year ended. Now they want voters to weigh in on it.\r\n\r\n\r\nVape shop owners and manufacturers in Smoke-Free Alliance Colorado turned petition signatures to put a question on Denver\u2019s November ballot.",
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"headlineText": "NC lawmakers to introduce vaping legislation",
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"headlineText": "Shopkeeper jailed for selling fake cigarettes in three counties",
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"subhead": "Lincolnshire Trading StandardsIllicit vapes, cigarettes and tobacco worth \u00a33,000 was found at the store in Boston",
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"headlineText": "Democrats\u2019 Quest to Ban Flavored Tobacco Products Picks Up Steam",
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"subhead": "The rate of tobacco use among Oregonians of high school age is more than twice the national average.",
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"headlineText": "E-cigarettes linked to lower cardiac risks compared to tobacco cigarettes in people with HIV",
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"headlineText": "Community leaders urge Clay County Commission to uphold flavored tobacco ban",
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"headlineText": "\u2018I nearly died\u2019: Taba, the tobacco drug Gambian women share in secret",
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