Claim: US senators ask federal government to address youth vaping.
Verdict: SUPPORTS

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title: 42nd Canadian Parliament
text: the "Tobacco Act" to the "Tobacco and Vaping Products Act" and introduced provisions relating to vaping products, such as a prohibition to selling or marketing to minors, plain packaging requirements and restrictions on advertising. Among the other bills initiated in the senate that were adopted by the parliament, Bill S-208 made May 20 of each year National Seal Products Day, Bill S-211 made June 19 of each year National Sickle Cell Awareness Day, Bill S-218 made October of every year Latin American Heritage Month, Bill S-232 made May of every year Canadian Jewish Heritage Month, and Bill S-236 simply states

title: JUUL
text: on youth vaping cessation. In April 2018, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requested that JUUL Labs turn over documents to "better understand the reportedly high rates of youth use and the particular youth appeal of these products." The FDA's request included asking the company to provide documents about the design and marketing of the JUUL, research on the safety of the products, and whether certain features of the device's design appeal to specific age groups. FDA also asked eBay to remove several listings of JUUL products, which eBay complied with. FDA commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb expressed concern about

title: Youth smoking
text: prohibits free samples of cigarettes. An additional act passed was the Prevent All Cigarette Trafficking (PACT) Act of 2010 that has also helped limit youth access to tobacco via the internet. This act uses strict identification tactics, both at the time of purchase and upon delivery of tobacco products, to deter underage youths from purchasing cigarettes. Numerous additional measures at the state and community level to prevent adolescent cigarette use include increasing tobacco excise taxes, local support for tobacco laws, and prohibiting cigarette smoking in areas such as restaurants, schools, workplaces, and hospitals. Youth who begin smoking pass through various

title: STATES Act
text: introduced the bill in the U.S. Senate and Representative David Joyce introduced a companion bill in the U.S. House of Representatives. The Senate bill was referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee and the House bill was referred to the House Judiciary Committee and the House Energy and Commerce Committee. President Donald Trump said he "probably will end up supporting" the bill on June 8. The same day, twelve governors, from West Coast states that had legalized cannabis for adult use, plus Maryland, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota and Pennsylvania, sent a letter to Congress urging passage of the measure.

title: Youth PROMISE Act
text: Youth PROMISE Act The Youth Prison Reduction through Opportunities, Mentoring, Intervention, Support, and Education Act, or Youth PROMISE Act (H.R.1064) was proposed in the 111th Congress on February 13, 2009 by Democratic Rep. Robert C. Scott (VA-3), referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. The measure seeks to amend the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 with the intent to prevent and intervene against criminal delinquency and youth gang activity through assessing and developing standards and evidence-based practices. The proposed legislation also calls for data-collection from designated geographic areas to assess the needs and extant resources for

title: Children's Health Insurance Program
text: or testify before Congress on behalf of the bill. An initial objection of Republicans in the Senate was that proposing to pay for the services by raising the federal tax on cigarettes, from 24 cents a pack to 67 cents a pack, ignored the likely consequence that sale of tobacco products would decrease and tax revenues would increasingly fall short of those needed to pay for the expansion of benefits. Kennedy and Hatch scoffed at the objection, with the former saying, "If we can keep people healthy and stop them from dying, I think most Americans would say 'Amen; isn't

title: Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act
text: ATF as the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Marijuana, Firearms and Explosives; and (2) the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau as the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Marijuana Tax and Trade Bureau. Finally, the bill would direct the Comptroller General to review federal laws, regulations, and policies to determine if changes are desirable in light of this Act. The Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act of 2013 was introduced into the United States House of Representatives on February 5, 2013 by Rep. Jared Polis (D, CO-2). It was referred to the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, the United States House

title: The Center to Prevent Youth Violence
text: we need to first understand the causal relationships and the effects such violence has on our communities.” HELP Senate Committee leaders lauded the report’s findings. “There is so much we can and absolutely should be doing to address gun violence—but as this report makes clear, one simple, critical step is to gain a better understanding of how to encourage the safe storage of guns,” said Senator Patty Murray (D-WA).“I’m hopeful that every Senator will take a close look at the findings in this nonpartisan report, and join families nationwide in pushing for stronger investments in gun violence research.” "If we

title: Youth smoking
text: passed restricting distribution of cigarettes and smokeless tobacco to protect children and adolescents by giving ultimate jurisdiction to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). However, in 2000 the Supreme Court ruled that Congress, as opposed to the FDA, was ruled to have authority in to regulate tobacco. A major act passed more recently in 2009 was the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. This act exerts many stipulations on cigarette distribution, but specifically for youth it prohibits the sale of flavored cigarettes which may be particularly salient to youth. This act also limits tobacco product advertising to youth and

title: Tobacco 21
text: through their own statements or through endorsement of Senate Bill 2100, the federal act to raise the tobacco age to 21: Hawaii’s Tobacco 21 bill was signed by Governor David Ige and raised the legal age to purchase tobacco products, including electronic smoking devices, to 21, beginning on January 1, 2016. The legislation of this bill arose after the Institute of Medicine released a report explaining that raising the age to 21 would have significant public health benefits. The report estimated that making the minimum age 21 would result in avoiding nearly 250,000 premature deaths and 50,000 fewer deaths from

title: Daniel Kagan
text: in the labor market. During the 2011 session Rep. Kagan supported a bill allowing children on the Basic Children's Health Plan to visit a health clinic in their schools without a copay. Before being elected to serve in the legislature, Rep. Kagan was flight instructor, working with retired military pilots to train on civilian aircraft. On 22 January 2018, Kagan used an electronic cigarette in the Colorado State Capitol while presiding as a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Vaping is not illegal in Colorado, except in schools, and Kagan, a long-time smoker, said he does it as a substitute

title: Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act
text: Hagan of North Carolina were proposing alternative legislation. On June 2, the Senate voted 84-11 to proceed to consideration of the House bill. On June 8, the Senate voted 61-30 on cloture on amendments to the Senate bill. The "Senate bill requires that cigarette health warning labels be large enough to make up 50 percent of the front and rear panels of the package and that the word “warning” appear in capital letters." On June 11, the Senate passed H.R. 1256 by a vote of 79-17, with 3 Senators not voting. Passage of the legislation came a week later than

title: Electronic cigarette
text: use JUUL. Vaping frequently takes place in bathroom stalls at school, and some students are able to vape in class undetected by teachers. There has been an increasing trend in vaping among adolescents. In 2011 the National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS) began surveying vaping use. Lifetime use among middle school aged students in 2011 was 1.4% and increased 3% by 2013. Ongoing use (use within 30 days) among middle school students in 2011 was 0.6% and increased to 3.9% by 2014. Among high school students, Lifetime use in 2011 was 4.7% and increased to 11.9% by 2013, and ongoing use

title: United States Senate Youth Program
text: United States Senate Youth Program The United States Senate Youth Program (USSYP) is an annual scholarship competition sponsored jointly by the U.S. Senate and the William Randolph Hearst Foundation. After a testing and interview process, two high school students are selected from each state, the District of Columbia, and the Department of Defense's overseas educational activities. In addition to a $10,000 scholarship, each receives a week-long trip to Washington, D.C In 1962, senators Everett Dirksen, Hubert Humphrey, Tom Kuchel, and Mike Mansfield introduced S.R. 324 to the Senate floor, which created the program. The resolution was passed on May 17,

title: Lisa Murkowski
text: 115th U.S. Congress by Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren and Colorado Senator Cory Gardner that would exempt individuals or corporations in compliance with state cannabis laws from federal enforcement of the Controlled Substances Act. In October 2017, Murkowski and Democrat Elizabeth Warren wrote a letter to President Trump applauding his "stated commitment to addressing opioid addiction" and concurring with his position that the opioid crisis deserved an increase in federal spending. Warren and Murkowski expressed that they were "extremely concerned" that Trump had "yet to take the necessary steps to declare a national emergency on opioids, nor "made any proposals to

title: Frank Artiles
text: session, Artiles sponsored legislation that made electronic cigarettes illegal for minors to use. Though the bill initially contained a provision that Artiles hoped would result in a statewide ban on e-cigarettes, an amendment sponsored by fellow Republican State Representative Bill Hager stripped the provision from the bill that "would have prevented local governments from creating their own rules on e-cigarettes and tobacco products." Following a unanimous vote in support of the bill, Artiles remarked, "At the end of the day, the state of Florida has acted before the federal government in protecting our children from contaminating their lungs with vaporizing

title: Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act
text: had lacked. The bill passed the United States House of Representatives on April 2, 2009, by a vote of 298 to 112. The House bill had 178 cosponsors and the companion legislation in the Senate, had 57 cosponsors. On May 20, 2009, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions ordered the Senate bill to be reported favorably with amendments on a 15-8 vote. The Capitol Hill newspaper "The Hill" reported on May 25, 2009, that Senate Majority Leader Reid planned to move on the bill during the month of June 2009; however it noted that Senators Burr and

title: William R. Spencer
text: individuals under 21. Such products include cigarettes, chewing tobacco, e-cigarettes, liquid nicotine, rolling papers, and smoking apparatuses. In late 2014, Spencer co-sponsored a resolution with his colleague, Presiding Officer DuWayne Gregory to ban the sale of powdered caffeine to minors in Suffolk County. The highly potent substance, which is nearly 100% caffeine, has been linked to at least 2 deaths in the United States. After the passage of the legislation, Dr. Spencer joined a group of advocates to meet with the FDA and five US Senators and discuss the dangers posed by powdered caffeine products. Since the delegation, the FDA

title: Massachusetts Tobacco Cessation and Prevention Program
text: tobacco products to minors. One of the more aggressive forms of youth smoking prevention has been the strict enforcement of laws that prevent sale of tobacco products to minors. Massachusetts has been extremely successful in decreasing youth tobacco sales. Illegal tobacco sales to minors dropped form 44% in 1994 to 11% in 1999. Additionally, illegal sales of tobacco were cut in half from 2006 to 2007. Youth prevention programs also play a key role in lowering smoking rates among minors. Throughout MTCP, many anti-tobacco programs have been created to encourage youth to avoid using tobacco products. One example of such

title: Stuart Reid (politician)
text: first elected to the Senate in 2010. He decided not to run for reelection in 2014. During the 2014 Legislative Session, Reid served on the following committees: In 2014, the Utah Legislature shot down S.B. 12 bill to raise the legal smoking age from 18 to 21. Had the bill passed, Utah would have been the first state to do so, and Salt Lake City would have been the second major city (after New York City) to raise the minimum age to 21. However, the Utah Senate killed the bill after a 12-16 vote on March 3. Stuart Reid (politician)