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The once dominant ecigarette company faces more legal challenges and FDA scrutiny after a probe into whether it deceptively marketed to children and teens. https://media.wired.com/photos/631a3aa862435d269fdbda8d/master/pass/Juul-Settles-Youth-Vaping-Probe-Business-1182904739.jpg
Juul Labs has agreed to pay nearly $ 440 million to settle a two-year investigation by 33 U.S. states into the marketing of its high-nicotine vaping products, which have long been blamed for sparking a national surge in teen vaping.
Pax Labs Juul told its employees on Dec. 11 that California-based employees can no longer vape at their desks, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The company, based in San Francisco, is enforcing a 2016 California law in which e-cigarettes are banned in the workplace. Juul will erect a tent outside of its San Francisco […]
University of Waterloo Prof. David Hammond’s new statistics on teen vaping in Canada over the last six months were so troubling he presented his data to Health Canada instead of waiting to publish it in a scientific journal.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is restricting sales of most e-cigarette flavours to areas of stores where people under age 18 aren’t allowed to enter. Canada is not adopting those same restrictions.
As vaping products and promoting them become prevalent, health professionals warn that e-cigarettes are not as safe as many people believe.
A coalition of health groups is warning the Ontario government that allowing the display and advertising of vaping products in convenience stores would lead to increased nicotine addiction among teenagers.
U.S. health officials call on vaping industry to address rof isk having their flavoured products pulled off the market.
The Liberal government has passed a sweeping overhaul of the country’s tobacco laws — legislation that will formally legalize (and heavily regulate) vaping and give Health Canada the powers it needs to mandate plain packaging for cigarettes. The bill, S-5, is one of the most ambitious overhauls of the Tobacco Act in a generation. It enacts […]
Sneaking a cigarette in the school bathroom? How quaint. Today’s teens have taken to vaping, an alternative to smoking that’s so discreet they can do it without even leaving the classroom.
