The company agreed to pay nearly half a billion dollars, and change its marketing techniques.<\/p>\n
A two-year bipartisan investigation found Juul deliberately targeted young people through marketing campaigns even though much of that demographic is not legally old enough to buy e-cigarettes.<\/p>\n
That follows a two-year investigation involving 33 states’ attorney generals.<\/p>\n
One Pensacola attorney says many personal injury lawsuits against JUUL are still going forward.<\/p>\n
“So you have kind of the government cases and the individual cases,” Sam Geisler<\/a>; Aylstock, Witkin, Kreis & Overholtz<\/a> attorney said. “They’re kind of neck-and-neck as I understand, and they’re being worked up and litigated. They have a process where there’s kind of test trials, where they’re actual trials, but they’re hand-picked across the parties, including with the court, in order to be representative of what cases are out there and once you get a couple of verdicts, it kind of helps settlement, because you’re informing the parties about the relative merits and values of these cases. So, the first case as I understand it will be a school board case, then that should follow soon there after with individuals.”<\/p>\n Geisler<\/a> says he hopes the FDA ruling will stand, and Juul’s products will remain off the market.<\/p>\n Channel 3 asked Geisler<\/a> what parents should know about the company.<\/p>\n “You gotta stay away from them, and I’m hoping at this point the word has gotten out that these are not safer than cigarettes,” Geisler<\/a> said. “These are not smoking cessation devices, not at all. The extend of the toxilogical injuries, and I guess you could say the extent to which it does harm to your lungs and your body is the extent of which isn’t really well known just yet either. So you know, be involved in your teen’s life, and do what you can try and find out if they’re using these. Hopefully, with them being pulled off the market, that’s going to make parents’ jobs a lot easier. So we’re hoping that the FDA ruling will ultimately stand, and that this product will remain off the market.”<\/p>\n Read the full article at Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A two-year bipartisan investigation found Juul deliberately targeted young people through marketing campaigns even though much of that demographic is not legally old enough to buy e-cigarettes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"![\"Vaping](\"https:\/\/www.awkolaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/vapaing-deaths-juul-lawsuit-200x300.jpg\")
President Donald Trump called vaping a \u201cproblem,\u201d and his health secretary said the government would force companies to remove flavored vaping products from the market as an epidemic of underage use shows no signs of abating.\n\n\u201cNot only is it a problem overall, but really specifically with respect for children,\u201d Trump told reporters at the White House after a meeting with advisers including Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and Acting Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Ned Sharpless.\n\n\u201cWe may very well have to do something very, very strong about it,\u201d Trump said.\n\nVaping has become a source of growing unease for parents and public-health officials over the past year amid signs that underage use is surging. A U.S. government survey of youth tobacco use released early this year showed 3.6 million school-age children had vaped in 2018. On Wednesday, Azar said that number has jumped to 5 million, calling it an \u201calarming\u201d trend.\n\nAt the same time, vaping has been linked to a mysterious acute lung ailment that\u2019s spread across multiple states. More than 450 cases of the respiratory condition were reported as of Sept. 6, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The severity of the cases vary, but six people have died.\n\nAzar said the FDA would issue guidance in coming weeks that would lead to all flavored vaping products other than tobacco-flavored offerings being removed from the market within 30 days. Producers of other flavors would then have to apply with the agency to resume sales. To gain FDA approval, an e-cigarette manufacturer must prove to the agency that the benefit of its product outweighs the risk, including the potential for underage vapers to pick up the habit.\n\n\u201cThe FDA plans to share more on the specific details of the plan and its implementation soon,\u201d according to a statement from HHS.\n\nCongress gave the FDA the authority to oversee tobacco in 2009. The agency began policing cigarettes then but didn\u2019t add e-cigarettes to its portfolio until 2016.\nBig Business<\/h3>\nThe FDA had been looking to limit most flavored e-cigarette product sales, excluding mint and menthol, to online sales with age verification and vaping shops.\n\nFormer FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb originally viewed e-cigarettes as a possible way to help adult smokers quit and sought in 2017 to ease regulation on them, pushing back to 2021 the date vape manufacturers would have to apply for agency approval to stay on the market. A federal judge in July pushed that date up to March 2020.\n\nCigarette alternatives, including vaping pens, have become a big business. Juul Labs Inc., which has the biggest share of the U.S. market for e-cigarettes, is one of the country\u2019s most richly valued closely held startups. Marlboro maker Altria Group Inc. last year invested about $13 billion in Juul at a valuation of approximately $35 billion. Altria shares fell as much as 0.8% in New York trading on Wednesday.\n\nJuul\u2019s marketing tactics have drawn growing scrutiny from regulators and lawmakers. The FDA sent Juul a warning letter Monday that said the agency had determined that the company has marketed its products as less risky than cigarettes without gaining the agency\u2019s approval. A Juul representative said that the company was reviewing the letter and would cooperate with the agency.\n
Stricken Vapers<\/h3>\nAround the U.S. this summer, doctors have seen hundreds of cases where patients \u2014 often youthful, previously healthy adults \u2014 have shown up in the emergency room, suddenly stricken with dangerous respiratory damage.\n\nThe CDC has said anyone who uses a vape device should consider stopping while public health officials investigate the cause of the condition. The public-health agency said on Friday that the lung-injury cases were appearing most often in people who used vaping products containing THC, the key psychoactive ingredient in cannabis.\n\nState health officials in New York have pointed to vitamin E acetate as a likely culprit. While thought to be harmless when used as a nutritional supplement, it could carry risks when inhaled and has been found in some products, said New York health officials.\n\n- - - - - -\n\nvia Bloomberg News<\/a>","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[94,49,50,10],"tags":[12,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.awkolaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5685"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.awkolaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.awkolaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.awkolaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.awkolaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5685"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.awkolaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7823,"href":"https:\/\/www.awkolaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5685\/revisions\/7823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.awkolaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.awkolaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.awkolaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.awkolaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}