e cigarettes

More than 500 companies submitted applications for 6.5 million vaping products to the FDA. The agency ruled on some of them but did not yet make a decision on products made by Juul.

Among other things, the bill, which will take effect Oct. 1, will raise the state’s legal age to vape and smoke tobacco to 21, a threshold already established in federal law.

New federal statistics show the number of adult cigarette smokers in Florida has fallen to 17.6 percent, just above the country's rate of 15 percent.…