smoking
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Athens-Clarke County
Recreational Marijuana Use Peaking Among College Students
Due to improving public perception and evolving legislative developments involving marijuana, college students have started using the drug more and more in recent years. According to survey data from the National College Health Association, nearly 10 percent more U.S. college students reported marijuana use in 2018 than 2008. Kelly Truesdell,…
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Athens-Clarke County
JUUL Labs Alters Policies as E-cigarette Usage Reaches All-Time High Among Youth
JUUL Labs CEO Kevin Burns released a statement in response to the FDA. JUUL will stop selling mango, fruit, creme and cucumber-flavored pods to more than 90,000 retailers effective today. Those flavors will be available exclusively at juul.com. The company will also restrict underage users on its website with additional…
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Health
UGA Relay for Life Hosts Awareness Event
UGA’S Relay for Life hosted the Great American Smokeout. The event is a part of the American Cancer Society’s efforts to encourage smokers to make a plan to quit smoking and raise awareness that UGA is a tobacco free campus. Ellie Cash is a chairman with UGA Relay for Life.…
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UGA
UGA Becomes Tobacco-Less Campus
ATHENS, GA - Georgia’s campus may getting a lot less smoky. Scenes like “smoker’s alley” at the Student Learning center may change if the board of regents passes the tobacco ban that was put on the table this week.
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Northeast Georgia News
Smoking Alcohol
Reporter: Bonnie Pintur Police are concerned about a new way young people are consuming alcohol. People are not actually drinking the alcohol, but they way they are consuming it could kill them. They call it the vaportini because it is mostly young women who use it. Users can…