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E-cigarette company Juul Labs Inc and its former largest investor, Marlboro maker Altria Group Inc., on Monday settled claims by the state of Minnesota that they fueled teen vaping addiction.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge to Los Angeles County’s ban on sales of flavored tobacco products brought by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, which had argued that only the federal government – not state or local governments – has the legal authority to regulate tobacco products.

The recreational use of nitrous oxide, also known as “laughing gas”, is on the rise in Europe among young people, producing worrying numbers of poisonings, the European Union drugs monitoring agency EMCDDA said in a study.

An estimated 3.08 million U.S. middle and high school students reported using a tobacco product in the last 30 days in 2022, down from 4.47 million in 2020 and 6.20 million in 2019, according to government data released on Thursday.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday it had recommended Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine for children and adolescents aged 6 to 17, allowing a rollout of the shots to begin for that age group.

Advisers to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are meeting on Thursday to decide on the use of Moderna Inc.’s COVID-19 vaccine for children and adolescents aged 6 to 17, after months of delay in that age group due to safety concerns.

The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday blocked e-cigarette maker Juul Labs Inc. from selling its nicotine products in the United States, potentially dealing a fatal blow to the once high-flying San Francisco company.