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• Teens who try e-cigarettes more likely to start smoking
• College Students Are Missing Out on Billions in Free Financial Aid
• French justice chief resigns amid flap over terrorism bill
• U.S. Colleges Get Record Donations

Teens who try e-cigarettes more likely to start smoking Posted: 27 Jan 2016 10:37 AM PST By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) - Teens who try electronic cigarettes may be more than twice as likely to progress to traditional cigarettes as their peers who haven't used the devices, a recent U.S. study finds. The results from surveys following more than 2,300 high school students in Hawaii mirror findings from a separate analysis of smoking habits among about 2,500 Los Angeles teens published in JAMA last August, adding to evidence that using e-cigarettes may be a gateway to smoking tobacco. "The question of whether e-cigarette use will operate to prevent smoking or promote smoking is the number one public health question of our time," said lead study author Thomas Wills, interim director of the cancer control program at the University of Hawaii Cancer Center in Honolulu.

College Students Are Missing Out on Billions in Free Financial Aid Posted: 27 Jan 2016 10:33 AM PST High school students left up to $2.7 billion worth of financial aid on the table last year by not filling out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid forms. In 2014, 1.4 million high school students did not fill out the FAFSA forms, according to a NerdWallet analysis released Wednesday. About half of students who didn't send in a FAFSA form would have been eligible for Pell grants, worth an average $1,861, according to NerdWallet.

French justice chief resigns amid flap over terrorism bill Posted: 27 Jan 2016 02:00 AM PST PARIS (AP) — France's justice minister unexpectedly resigned Wednesday after objecting to President Francois Hollande's push to revoke citizenship from convicted terrorists with dual nationality.

U.S. Colleges Get Record Donations Posted: 26 Jan 2016 09:01 PM PST U.S. colleges and universities raised a record $40.31 billion last year, buoyed by megagifts to Stanford University, Harvard University and other wealthy institutions. The 7.6% increase in charitable donations was fueled by more gifts from individuals, rather than from foundations, and benefited from soaring valuations of gifts of art, according to an annual survey set to be released Wednesday by the nonprofit Council for Aid to Education. Stanford led the pack with a record $1.63 billion raised in its fiscal year ended Aug. 31, followed by Harvard, which brought in $1.05 billion in its fiscal year ended June 30.

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