Entercom Bans E-Cigarette Ads On All Its Stations

No More Vape Ads

In a surprise move, PHILADELPHIA-based ENTERCOM COMMUNICATIONS has banned vaping and e-cigarette ads on its more than 200 radio stations.

THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER reports, "JUUL, which controls 75% of the e-cigarette market, faces intense regulatory scrutiny over the potential health risks of its products and said itself on WEDNESDAY that it would suspend print, digital and broadcast advertising. JUUL’s chief executive KEVIN BURNS also announced WEDNESDAY that he’s resigning."

ACTION ON SMOKING AND HEALTH spokesperson MEGAN ARENDT said of ENTERCOM’s decision, “It’s absolutely a step in the right direction.”

The moves follow a number of deaths tied to vaping, with health officials still struggling to figure out the cause of a lung disease that has sickened 530 people across the nation.

“People are dying from vaping and there’s hundreds of new cases each week of serious and fatal lung injuries from vaping,” KANSAS Department of Health and Environment Secretary LEE NORMAN said in a video on the agency’s web site. “We used to think that vaping was a fairly straightforward way for people to wean off nicotine, but with young people vaping now, and even older people doing it, there’s lots of illnesses and curiously we don’t know with 100% certainty what’s causing it.”

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