Vaping

Tobacco Free for a Healthy New Jersey wants to help smokers, especially the youth, transition to a smoke-free lifestyle with quit centers, counseling, and education.

Even though New Jersey's eventually legal products will theoretically only be sold to adults, they could and likely will find their way into the hands of younger residents.

New Jersey has launched a quit vaping text message program to help the state's teens and young adults successfully quit e-cigarettes.

A Hazlet man is looking at a possible five-years in prison for offering to take sexually explicit photos of underage girls in exchange for free vaping products.

Ask them specifically about Juuls, and the numbers start to climb.

Lawmakers say the flavors are meant to hook young people, who are using the products in increasing numbers.

Bill is set for Monday approval, despite protests from vape shop owners who say it will force them out of business and send former smokers back to cigarettes.

Package of bills also increases fines for illegal sales, increases vape-shop licensing fees and hikes taxes on consumers.

As the vaping epidemic lingers on affecting many lives across the Jersey Shore and beyond, one school district in Ocean County is working to educate students on the dangers of these e-cigarettes and are being given some aid to help in their efforts.

"The statistics that are out there now are really only the tip of the iceberg," Bob Garrett, CEO of Hackensack Meridian Health, told New Jersey 101.5.

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As multiple agencies continue to investigate the vaping epidemic that's caused hundreds of illnesses across the country, Ocean County Health Officials are urging everyone to stay away from e-cigarette products.