E-cigarette maker Juul Labs Inc., facing budget cuts and regulatory scrutiny, has shelved the development of a puff-counting feature that some company employees say had the potential to help users wean themselves off nicotine.
Juul last year began piloting a usage monitor in the U.K. and Canada. The feature allowed consumers to track the number of puffs they took on a Juul vaporizer that transmitted the data through a Bluetooth connection to an Android-phone app. It also gave users the option to create a daily alert when they...
Budgets had nothing to do with it. They were under pressure after the executive order against flavored vapes and this was a publicity stunt. Clearly the company has a vested interest in keeping people hooked on their product, not giving them the means by which they can stop.
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