US to ban flavoured vaping products as lung disease cases surge

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Donald Trump's administration on Wednesday announced it would soon ban flavored vaping products, amid a growing outbreak of severe lung disease linked to e-cigarette use that has claimed six lives.

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Hitting the brakes on vaping...Amid increasing health concernsin the US, following the death ofseveral young people from electronic cigarettes, Donald Trump announced the federal government's plans to ban flavored ecigarettes: 5. SOUNDBITE 2 - Don ald Trump, US President (male, English, 19 sec): We're studying it very carefully, it's again very new, and potentially very bad, there have been deaths and there have been a lot of other problems, people think it's an easy solution to cigarettes but it's turned out that it has its own difficulties."Hailed as a safer alternative to tobacco, the ecigarette business has been praised for helping some people quit traditional cigarettes, but few studies exist onthe long term dangers of vaping...Or what exactly has caused the deaths and at least 450 cases of pulmonary disease that are under investigation. Of particular concern are the risk of oils, such as vitamin e and THC. The health scare, and the new american guidelines could upturn a 11 billion dollar global industry..., namely for young consumers who have increasingly been drawn to the flavored ecigarettes.10. SOUNDBITE (English) David Beth, Kenosha County Sheriff: ". One of our grade schools in the county last year had an epidemic, a grade school. Thirteen, twelve, 11-year-olds of vaping. And we're all learning now how dangerous this is. European nations, where ecigarettes are also popular, do not seem to be experiencing vapign deaths and similar pulmonary ilnesses as the one in the US. THis could be due to stricter regulations, the ban of certain oils, or a lack of reporting..for an EU wide system is still in the works...

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