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Researchers analysed hundreds of posts on the Chinese video-sharing app to identify hashtags that indicate addictive and potentially dangerous e-cigarettes are being sold alongside innocent items.

A new paper in Nicotine and Tobacco Research shows that advertising and sales of vaping products is common on TikTok, the video sharing platform popular among teenagers. Users pushing these items often use hashtags like #puffbundles to disguise vaping products by including things like lip gloss and candy in the packages for sale.

TikTok is full of fun memes, pranks, dances and challenges -- and illicit vaping product sales targeting teenagers, a new study reports.

The plan is packed with practical goals and strategies to produce impactful research that improves peoples lives, increase learning opportunities and engage in meaningful partnerships across the state.

Bonnie Halpern-Felsher of Stanford University will speak about how to prevent and reduce the use of e-cigarettes at 4 p.m. Jan. 23 in the Graduate Education Building auditorium. Also available via Zoom.

One University of Arkansas (U of A) study suggests kids may be using the TikTok shop to get e-cigarettes, hidden in scrunchies, or other products.

There are laws to prevent kids from buying vapes and other tobacco products. It's not easy to enforce them.

Eric Schisler of the College of Education and Health Professions made his international debut this summer sharing his research about bystander intervention and its message: ask people if theyre OK.