6 The Hampton Roads Messenger


Volume 10 Number 1


Health Watchdog Put E-Cigarette Manufacturers On Notice


quitting aid for smokers. a personal


The product is also known as vaporizer,


or


nicotine-delivery other


regular cigarette, with a pocket-size nicotine-juice cartridges.


it is not that names. Some look like electronic


system, among a


others come vaporizer and


Critics said that in many respects different


from the


conventional cigarette. A drag from its mouthpiece gives the person a genuine nicotine fix.


Research findings reported BY VIJI SUNDARAM


SAN FRANCISCO -- A California health watchdog put e-cigarette manufacturers on alert on September 2, warning them that if they don’t recall the products they have sold on the California market within 60 days, they could be sued.


The action


lab tests by the Oakland-based Center for Environmental of e-cigarettes


follows independent Health


(CEH) manufactured by 24


companies; 21 of them had products that have high levels of one or both of the


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cancer-causing chemicals,


formaldehyde and acetaldehyde, said Charles Margulis, media director at the center.


The CEH found that most – 50 of 97 products examined – contained high levels of one or both chemicals.


Vapor4Life and R.J.Reynolds, two manufacturers listed among the companies whose products were tested by CEH, did not respond to requests seeking comment.


Brought on the U.S. market eight years ago, and promoted as a lot less hazardous than conventional cigarettes,


e-cigarette


in The New England Journal of Medicine state that “like conventional cigarettes,


electronic cigarettes may


function as a ‘gateway drug’ that can prime the brain to be more receptive to harder drugs.”


Because major tobacco companies such as R.J. Reynolds have gotten involved in the e-cigarette market,


health smoking,” and environmental


groups grew suspicious of claims that


e-cigarettes are “healthier than and that


they “harmless water vapor.” have been recommending them as a manufacturers Rights FROM PAGE 1


at meaningful and productive lives,” said Secretary of the Commonwealth Levar will


continue


Stoney. “Going forward we to process as many


applications as we can and encourage the Virginians whose rights we restore


Our Faith By Rev. Dr. Gregory Headen, Pastor


One of our priorities is YOUTH/ YOUNG ADULTS. We are referring to the priorities that we have decided to focus on as “Crystal Balls” in that we cannot afford to drop


them. This church from its inception has demonstrated a real commitment to youth, and we have invested a lot in our youth. For most of our history Youth has also included young adults up to age 25. Only recently have we separated young adults and extended the age from 18-35, and there is a lot of work to be done with that broad expanse of ages. Eighteen-year-olds are very different than those in their thirties. I want to appeal to youth and young adults to be actively involved in your future. Those of us who are beyond those ages have an obligation to pour into the next generations our knowledge, wisdom, and experience. This does not mean that we always know how or what works best in this effort. We need conversation going on across the generational lines.


There


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is power in communication. There is power in understanding, and there is power in building relationships. The church stands or falls on relationships. A family stays together or breaks apart


on relationships. Relationships are worth investing in. All of our suffering, poverty, family disintegration, lack of education, incarceration, and deterioration in neighborhoods is not due to external forces impinging upon us. Much of it is due to our own failure to be in relationships with each other that breed trust, respect, and reciprocity. We teach and preach that the relationship that supersedes all others is our relationship with God, and that Jesus Christ lived and died to make this possible for us as a gift. “The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ, our Lord” (Romans 6:23). We cannot buy this relationship, this salvation. We cannot be righteous enough to deserve it or do enough good works to merit it. Neither do we lose it because we have a bad day or stumble in our walk.


“If we confess


our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9). This spiritual foundation is what we bring to every other relationship in life. But remember, it is not just the individual that is in relationship with God, Christ, and the Holy Spirit; it is the church collectively – the body of Christ.


As believers, we belong


to God and to each other. Age and generations do not divide us. There is more that unites us than separates us. We must keep our eyes and hearts on the Savior that unites us.


contain


September 2015 “These cigarettes are promoted


as safe and as only containing water vapor, which is a lie,” asserted Dr. Stanton Glantz, a professor of medicine at the University of California in San Francisco and director of the school’s Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education.


Glantz accused California Atty.


Gen. Kamala Harris as being lax in enforcing issues around e-cigarettes and tobacco products.


“She’s been asleep at the switch


on this,” he asserted, noting that just last week she “quietly settled” with some e-cigarette California


for violating


decree with the state that they would stop selling flavored e-cigarettes.


In the 60-day notice sent out Sept.


2, the CEH is not only demanding a recall of products already sold, it wants manufacturers to provide “clear and reasonable warning” for products sold in the future, plus pay an appropriate civil penalty for violating the state’s Health and Safety Code.


CEH executive director Michael


Green said his agency’s legal action aims to force the industry to comply with the law and create pressure “to end their most abusive practices.”


to use them to the fullest by registering to vote


and participating democratic process.”


If you or someone you know has been convicted of a felony and served their time, restoration of rights might be available. For more information, call 804-692-0104 orvisit commonwealth. virginia.gov.


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