Tag: vaping

Battery-powered devices are overheating more often on planes and raising alarm

Devices powered by lithium-ion batteries are overheating more often during airline flights and passengers often put them in checked bags that go into...

FDA OKs best-selling e-cigarette Vuse Alto, but only in tobacco flavor

WASHINGTON -- Federal health officials on Thursday authorized sales of the best-selling e-cigarette in the U.S., Vuse Alto, allowing manufacturer Reynolds American to...

Supreme Court to weigh whether regulators were heavy handed with flavored e-cigarette products

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court took up an e-cigarette case Tuesday, weighing Food and Drug Administration decisions blocking the marketing of sweet flavored...

Senate hearing to spotlight illegal vaping companies that have dodged regulators

WASHINGTON -- Health and law enforcement officials are set to face congressional questioning over the rise of illegal electronic cigarettes in the U.S.,...