Minnesota Vaping Coalition Supports Flavored Vape Ban Despite Hit To Businesses
Marielle Mohs looked at how the restrictions could impact local vape stores.
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Marielle Mohs looked at how the restrictions could impact local vape stores.
A Twin Cities suburb is taking a small step towards tackling the vaping epidemic as a whole.
Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison have announced a lawsuit against Juul for what they call deception over its vaping products.
Two of the students who sat down with Gov. Tim Walz in October continued the conversation with WCCO's Christiane Cordero.
The Minnesota Department of Health is looking into a possible factor in vaping-related lung injuries: vitamin E acetate.
A Brooklyn Park man was hospitalized for 19 days this fall because of a vaping illness. He shares his experience with WCCO's Mary McGuire.
In an instant, lithium ion batteries can destroy a device. Used in everything from key fobs to greeting cards, it's the batteries in vape pens Hennepin County is worried about.
Authorities say an illegal device used to vape alcohol was recently confiscated from a bar in suburban Dakota County, and the bar owner was fined for having it.
Both Republican and Democratic state leaders proposed sweeping new legislation Monday to limit sales of vaping and tobacco products to anyone under the age of 21. A state survey shows a sharp increase in youth vaping, at the same time the state reports 73 illnesses and three deaths related to e-cigarette use.
Three more people have been charged in what investigators say was a large-scale black market THC vape manufacturing operation in southeastern Wisconsin.
Students at a west metro high school are taking an interactive and straight-forward approach at tackling the vaping epidemic.
Authorities have made a fifth arrest in connection with a black market THC vape manufacturing business in Wisconsin.
Authorities say both of the newly-reported Minnesota cases involved people who were over 50 years old, and both of them died in September.
Suburban Milwaukee police say child protective services took a 7-year-old boy to the hospital after he was found vaping in a school classroom.
More than 50 cities and counties in Minnesota now require people to be of drinking age to buy tobacco products.
The Minnesota Department of Health reports more and more Minnesotans are getting sick due to vaping.
A new survey says one in four Minnesota 11th graders reported using an e-cigarette in the previous 30 days, a 54% increase from the same survey in 2016.
Kenosha County prosecutors say the mother of two brothers accused of manufacturing vaping cartridges with THC oil was aware of the illegal activity and allowed some products to be manufactured at her real estate office.
Authorities have arrested the mother of two Wisconsin brothers accused of illegally manufacturing vaping cartridges with THC oil.
Authorities say police seized more than 1,000 THC vaping cartridges in Walworth County during a recent drug raid. The Journal Sentinel reports a citizen tip led officers to a Genoa City home, where police found the cartridges, 16 pounds of marijuana, THC edibles, THC wax and hashish.
They feature colorful pictures and familiar names like "Fruity Pebbles" and "Candy Land" -- but what can't be seen from the packaging of illicit vaping products has federal drug enforcement officials in Minnesota concerned.
It's a dangerous trend that's affecting young people. The CDC reports that 16% of lung injuries from vaping are happening to people 18 years old or younger.
A Twin Cities man is facing felony drug charges after he allegedly sold undercover officers hundreds of THC-filled vaping cartridges and investigators found more than 76,000 of them in his possession.
Law enforcement officials say they've seized 75,000 vaping cartridges in Anoka County.
Doctors say a majority of patients reported using e-cigarettes to vape THC.
