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Ann Arbor will soon be the first city in Michigan that will require you to be 21-years-old to buy tobacco products.  In the wake of several college campuses going tobacco free (Michigan State University's tobacco ban goes into effect August 15th), Ann Arbor is taking a different course of action to curb tobacco use...

Starting August 15th, if you want to smoke in East Lansing, you'll probably have to go for a long walk.  This semester Michigan State University is banning tobacco products on their campus. The ban will target all forms of tobacco: cigarettes, chewing tobacco, vaporizers, E-Cigarettes, hookahs, and any other recreational tobacco...

The inaugural West Michigan VaperFest took over The Deltaplex Arena & Conference Center and filled it with clouds of the most amazing smelling vapors you could possibly imagine! There was thousands of square feet at The DeltaPlex in Grand Rapids of nothing but e-liquids, tanks, batteries and clouds!

The inaugural West Michigan VaperFest is Saturday, highlighting and selling vaping and vaping products.

How about some good news when it comes to our health?

A major drug store chain is taking a significant stand against smoking and the move is being applauded by the president.

While in Grand Rapids this week, Governor Rick Snyder introduced the Health and Wellness plan.  One part of this plan is to give the DNR the power to make state beaches smoke free. The need to improve overall health and the desire keep our beaches clean were both cited as reasons to go smoke-free at Michigan owned and operated beaches.

The federal government has released their new cigarette warning labels, to be placed on the side of packs by October 2012. Similarly graphic warning messages are already used in 40 other countries,  and the FDA hopes to persuade smokers to cutback or quit altogether.

Despite efforts to get it done as soon as possible, a warm smoking area for smokers at the Grand Rapids Home For Veterans is just getting finished this week. State Representative Roy Schmidt, and Senator David Hildenbrand as well as the trade unions that they were working with (who agreed to donate their services), hoped to have the section of the pavilion just outside of the veterans' home ready