The District of Columbia is joining several states in suing the nation’s largest e-cigarette maker Juul Labs, saying the company’s online ads and promotions illegally targeted minors. Washington, D.C., Attorney General Karl Racine announced the lawsuit Tuesday, alleging that Juul’s viral marketing contributed to the surge in underage vaping by teens in the district and […]
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Adolescent, Young Adult Pod-Based E-Cigarette Use Up
MONDAY, Oct. 22, 2018 — Adolescents and young adults are increasingly using electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) products such as pod-based systems but have misperceptions and lack of knowledge about these products, according to a study published online Oct. 19 in JAMA Network Open. Karma McKelvey, Ph.D., from Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., and colleagues surveyed […]
FDA seizes documents from E-cigarette maker JUUL
(HealthDay)—Thousands of pages of documents were seized from the electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) maker JUUL by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration during a surprise inspection last week as part of the agency’s investigation into the company’s marketing practices. JUUL controls 73 percent of the e-cigarette market and has come into the FDA’s crosshairs as teen […]
JUUL: e-cigarette dominates the market—and fears of parents
In just three years, electronic cigarette maker JUUL has come to dominate the American market with its vaping devices that look like thumb drives, a business success that has brought a public health dilemma for authorities in the US, and elsewhere. On the one hand, e-cigarettes expose users to significantly lower levels of potentially toxic […]
FDA Ad Campaign Hopes to Extinguish E-Cigarette Use Among Teens
TUESDAY, Sept. 18, 2018 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday launched a new ad campaign aimed at curbing rampant e-cigarette use among American teens. Just last week, the agency announced a crackdown on companies that make e-cigarettes and stores that sell the products illegally to minors. The companies have 60 days to […]