e cigarettes

The number of different e-cig devices sold has nearly tripled despite a three-year federal effort to block kid-friendly flavors. The rise has been almost entirely driven by a wave of cheap, disposable devices imported from China.

A CDC survey finds that while adults are smoking less, vaping is increasing. The smoking rate has been gradually dropping for decades due to taxes, price hikes and bans.

The data seems to show more high school students vaping, with 14% saying they had done so recently, At least one educator says vaping in campus bathrooms and stairwells remains "a constant battle."

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.…