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Indonesia will impose a 57 percent tax on vaping e-liquids, a decision that may be intended to protect the cigarette market from competition in a country with extremely high smoking rates.

Results from the first major national teen tobacco survey since the panic about teen vaping accelerated this year show that high school student e-cigarette use in 2017 didn’t increase substantially from 2016.

In an election billed as a war between good and evil, San Francisco voters overwhelmingly passed a ban on flavored tobacco products, including vaping e-liquid.

The Chicago City Council is considering an ordinance that would ban nicotine-containing e-liquid in any flavor except tobacco. The law would not ban menthol cigarettes or flavored cigars.

Democratic politicians like Sens. Dick Durbin and Chuck Schumer are attacking vaping as though it were a bigger problem than smoking. Is it because they consider it a real problem, or just an easy target?

YouTube has recently penalized vaping channels without explanation, apparently focused on the popular product JUUL. The problems with vaping and YouTube go further though, with e-cigarette-related channels demonetized and suppressed on the video hosting site.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Trade Commission have jointly issued warnings to 13 vaping manufacturers, distributors, and retailers for marketing e-liquid with labels that resemble well-known food and candy products. The agencies say the e-liquids are a safety hazard because they could be mistaken by children for food or candy.

A federal court in Switzerland has overturned the country’s long-standing ban on nicotine-containing e-cigarettes and vapor products. Although the government was already planning to end the prohibition, the court decision allows retailers to now begin selling vaping products with nicotine immediately.