A House subcommittee is examining Juul's alleged role in the teen vaping "epidemic" in a two-day hearing.Witnesses testified about Juul's advertising and teens' addiction to the products.Lawmakers blasted Juul for its alleged role in fueling a teen vaping "epidemic," calling the company's tactics "right out of the tobacco playbook" and eager to understand what makes Juul's e-cigarettes "so attractive to teenagers.
"It is my sincere hope that our hearings today and tomorrow will help us better understand Juul's role in this terrible epidemic and point us toward solutions to prevent teen vaping addiction," he said. "We know very well having studied tobacco advertising that Juul's marketing faithfully recapitulates the methods used by the tobacco industry to target young people," Jackler said.
Durbin slammed Juul placing ads in major newspapers like The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and The Washington Post, calling it a "PR campaign."
Yep...Getting kids off tobacco reduces MSA settlement payments to states by reducing tobacco revenue. Vaping is the scapegoat they are using to keep revenues up. Read Master Settlement Agreement, 26 states colluded to sell your rights.
nothing new... just big tobacco competitors trying to get back sales