In a Tuesday evening press conference at the N.C. General Assembly, Senate Leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, and House Speaker Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, announced an agreement to abandon, for now, efforts to legalize casinos through the state budget.
Published: Friday, December 29th, 2023 @ 8:51 am
By: Carolina Journal
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ECU part of comprehensive tobacco and nicotine study for FDA
Published: Wednesday, July 5th, 2023 @ 2:53 pm
By: ECU News Services
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The city is breaking records for fatal overdoses.
Published: Thursday, June 22nd, 2023 @ 11:06 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services today launched an improved QuitlineNC, offering more services and ways for tobacco users to successfully quit smoking or stop using other tobacco products, including vaping and e-cigarettes.
Published: Tuesday, March 21st, 2023 @ 12:19 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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RALEIGH — The North Carolina Child Fatality Task Force (Task Force) has submitted its 2023 Annual Report to Governor Cooper and the NC General Assembly.
Published: Thursday, March 2nd, 2023 @ 3:06 am
By: Eastern NC NOW Staff
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a safety alert after reviewing some reports of patients who had been diagnosed with cancer after receiving breast implants.
Published: Friday, September 30th, 2022 @ 12:33 pm
By: Daily Wire
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With the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) prepping yet another booster shot for this fall — this one to target the Omicron variant known as BA.5 — scientists and immunologists are working on a whole new approach that includes nasal spray vaccines and body patches.
Published: Tuesday, August 9th, 2022 @ 10:02 am
By: Daily Wire
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On Thursday, The Food and Drug Administration officially ordered all Juul electronic cigarettes to be removed from the United States market, the Associated Press reported.
Published: Monday, July 4th, 2022 @ 1:30 am
By: Daily Wire
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Online course guides physicians on treating toxic exposures farmworkers might encounter
Published: Friday, June 10th, 2022 @ 3:40 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Last week, the North Carolina Child Fatality Task Force (Task Force) submitted its 2022 Annual Report to Governor Roy Cooper and the NC General Assembly.
Published: Tuesday, May 10th, 2022 @ 1:47 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Jewel's "Picking Up the Pieces" Tour, showcased March 19, 2016 at Durham's Carolina Theater, is ancillary to her autobiography, "Never Broken", which is at the nexus of her every one woman show; it is her all consuming theme projected well, her life as a poetic masterpiece.
Published: Monday, January 3rd, 2022 @ 9:25 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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ECU researcher studies risks of lung injury from e-cigarette flavoring compound
Published: Saturday, February 20th, 2021 @ 9:40 am
By: ECU News Services
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Elaina Patton of NBC News highlights one of the negative health impacts from prolonged shutdowns linked to coronavirus.
Published: Tuesday, December 29th, 2020 @ 1:07 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Researchers will measure air quality inside vehicles, user behavior
Published: Saturday, September 19th, 2020 @ 8:19 am
By: ECU News Services
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When her teenage son collapsed in a seizure, it hit High Point mother Kelly Kinard. Luka was addicted.
Published: Tuesday, December 10th, 2019 @ 12:01 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Remarks by President Trump in a Listening Session on Youth Vaping and the Electronic Cigarette Epidemic
Published: Monday, November 25th, 2019 @ 3:08 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The House Finance Committee sprung an amendment that would tax e-cigarette and vapor products on Senate Bill 557 in committee, Wednesday, Oct. 30.
Published: Saturday, November 2nd, 2019 @ 7:35 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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State legislators have sent a tax on vaping to the House.
Published: Saturday, November 2nd, 2019 @ 8:42 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The number of North Carolina cases of severe lung injury associated with e-cigarette use or vaping continues to rise with 61 cases in people ranging in age from 13 to 72.
Published: Thursday, October 31st, 2019 @ 4:14 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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When a patient’s lungs began to fail, doctors had no ready explanation — until they read media reports of vaping-related illnesses.
Published: Tuesday, October 8th, 2019 @ 9:10 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Doctors expect more people to die of vaping-related illnesses in North Carolina.
Published: Tuesday, October 1st, 2019 @ 5:25 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Remarks by President Trump in Meeting on E-Cigarettes
Published: Saturday, September 14th, 2019 @ 4:02 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is investigating recent reports of severe lung disease after vaping.
Published: Tuesday, August 20th, 2019 @ 4:15 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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High school students are at risk of becoming addicted to nicotine, a fact confirmed by a North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services analysis of vaping devices confiscated from students at seven schools in various parts of the state.
Published: Friday, April 19th, 2019 @ 3:35 pm
By: Daniel Bunting
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With the holiday season gearing up, now is a good time for people who use tobacco to make a plan to quit and give the gift of health to themselves and their loved ones
Published: Wednesday, December 5th, 2018 @ 12:27 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein has launched an investigation into Juul, a fast-growing e-cigarette company, but a consumer freedom expert warns the attempted crackdown could backfire.
Published: Wednesday, October 24th, 2018 @ 11:33 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As North Carolina's tobacco-free schools law marks its 10th anniversary, the state has seen cigarette smoking reduce 50 percent among high schoolers since 2008
Published: Monday, August 27th, 2018 @ 6:11 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina teen tobacco use continues to climb, with youth use rising by 1.2 percent to 28.8 percent based on results of the 2017 N.C. Youth Tobacco Survey, released today by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
Published: Saturday, June 9th, 2018 @ 1:34 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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County public health departments across North Carolina are keeping families and communities safe year-round through immunizations, screenings, infectious disease control and promotion of healthy lifestyles, while also meeting the challenges of addiction, overdose and a rising death rate related to o
Published: Monday, April 16th, 2018 @ 11:34 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Two years ago, East Carolina University psychiatrist Vivek Anand documented adolescent use of and opinions on electronic cigarettes
Published: Monday, October 16th, 2017 @ 9:59 pm
By: ECU News Services
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What if a product could save lives and millions in health-care costs?
Published: Thursday, October 12th, 2017 @ 9:12 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The percentage of North Carolina adults who reported smoking cigarettes in 2016 is the lowest ever recorded, 17.9 percent
Published: Thursday, September 28th, 2017 @ 5:12 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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North Carolina is requiring new packaging and label requirements on electronic cigarette products sold in the state, effective Dec. 1.
Published: Sunday, October 25th, 2015 @ 10:45 pm
By: Chris Downey
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