Nationally, the smokeless tobacco use prevalence among high school students was 3.1%.2 In 2021, 2.7% of high school students in Rhode Island smoked cigars, cigarillos or little cigars on at least one day in the past 30 days
After August 8, vapor retailers will have three years to comply with the rules by registering and labeling their product ingredients
And people are wringing their hands over it across the internet: Why? the adults are asking, why has time turned round, why are our children sucking once again on the demons teat, and the answer, unfortunately, is: Why not? This is a generation that was exposed to a rushing stream of increasingly alarming news about ecological destruction and the failures or disinterest of the adults in charge, the generation at the forefront of some of the worlds most traumatic events, appropriately anxious, overburdened with fears of the future, and perfectly within their rights to pick up a fag and say, Fuck it. We, the elders, have handed doom down to our children like a bad watch and, after a brief foray into extreme health (which, lets face it, was deeply unserious, proudly situating such things as green juice at its centre), these kids have succumbed to vice
Allen Beals, Putnam County's health commissioner, plans to discuss the possibility of drafting similar laws with the Putnam Legislature's health committee on March 19, according to spokeswoman Barbara Ilardi
