{"id":91915,"date":"2020-12-28T21:17:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T01:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/english-national-alliance-for-hispanic-health-praises-enactment-of-the-preventing-online-sales-of-e-cigarettes-to-children-act\/"},"modified":"2020-12-28T21:17:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T01:17:00","slug":"english-national-alliance-for-hispanic-health-praises-enactment-of-the-preventing-online-sales-of-e-cigarettes-to-children-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/english-national-alliance-for-hispanic-health-praises-enactment-of-the-preventing-online-sales-of-e-cigarettes-to-children-act\/","title":{"rendered":"National Alliance for Hispanic Health Praises Enactment of the Preventing Online Sales of E-Cigarettes to Children Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">WASHINGTON<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Dec. 28, 2020<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0&#8220;E-cigarette sales are driving a youth tobacco tipping point.\u00a0But we now have new tools to protect youth and support parents frustrated by the targeting of their children and the ease of purchasing e-cigarettes online,&#8221; said <span class=\"xn-person\">Jane L. Delgado<\/span>, PhD, MS, President and CEO of the National Alliance for Hispanic Health, the nation&#8217;s leading Hispanic health advocacy group. <\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, with signing of the 2021 Omnibus Appropriations Bill, <i><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3022872-1&amp;h=582748220&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.feinstein.senate.gov%2Fpublic%2Findex.cfm%2Fpress-releases%3FID%3DA15C847E-757E-439C-8819-F92A8BEE843F&amp;a=The+Preventing+Online+Sales+of+E-Cigarettes+to+Children+Act\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Preventing Online Sales of E-Cigarettes to Children Act<\/a><\/i>\u00a0becoming law. The new law will apply the same safeguards already in place for traditional cigarettes to online sales of electronic cigarettes and vapor products, including age ID requirements.<\/p>\n<p>With <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3022872-1&amp;h=118337273&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fmed.stanford.edu%2Fnews%2Fall-news%2F2020%2F08%2Fvaping-linked-to-covid-19-risk-in-teens-and-young-adults.html&amp;a=vaping+linked\" rel=\"nofollow\">vaping linked<\/a>\u00a0to substantially increased risk of COVID-19 among teenagers and young adults, it is more important than ever to have all tools necessary to reverse rates of vaping among youth. E-cigarettes are the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3022872-1&amp;h=2879287883&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fpubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2F33332300%2F&amp;a=most+commonly+used\" rel=\"nofollow\">most commonly used<\/a>\u00a0tobacco product among high school and middle school youth, including Hispanic youth. Online sales are a critical component of reversing e-cigarette use for youth as <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3022872-1&amp;h=292010989&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fpmc%2Farticles%2FPMC6610165%2F&amp;a=online+and+mobile+advertising+platforms+are+popular+places+for+e-cigarette+advertising\" rel=\"nofollow\">online and mobile advertising platforms are popular places for e-cigarette advertising<\/a>, including ads for flavored products appealing to youth, and a majority <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3022872-1&amp;h=3564311294&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Ftobaccocontrol.bmj.com%2Fcontent%2F27%2F3%2F287&amp;a=(63.2%25)+of+internet+vendors+could+not+effectively+verify+age+or+made+no+attempt+at+all+to+verify\" rel=\"nofollow\">(63.2%) of internet vendors could not effectively verify age or made no attempt at all to verify<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We applaud Senators Feinstein (D-CA) and Cornyn (R-TX) in the Senate and Reps. <span class=\"xn-person\">Rosa DeLauro<\/span> (D-CT) and <span class=\"xn-person\">Kelly Armstrong<\/span> (R-ND) in the House for their introduction and tireless work to bring about passage of this bipartisan legislation to protect children and families,&#8221; concluded Dr. Delgado.<\/p>\n<p><b>About the National Alliance for Hispanic Health (The Alliance) <br \/><\/b>The Alliance is the nation&#8217;s foremost science-based source of information and trusted advocate for the health of Hispanics in <span class=\"xn-location\">the United States<\/span> with a mission to achieve the best health for all. For more information visit us at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=3022872-1&amp;h=415764380&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.healthyamericas.org%2F&amp;a=www.healthyamericas.org\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.healthyamericas.org<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>SOURCE  National Alliance for Hispanic Health<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">WASHINGTON<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Dec. 28, 2020<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0&#8220;E-cigarette sales are driving a youth tobacco tipping point.\u00a0But we now have new tools to protect youth and support parents frustrated by the targeting of their children and the ease of purchasing e-cigarettes online,&#8221; said <span class=\"xn-person\">Jane L. Delgado<\/span>, PhD, MS, President and CEO of the National Alliance for Hispanic Health, the nation&#8217;s leading Hispanic health advocacy group. <\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, with signing of the 2021&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-familia-y-vida"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}