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posted by chromas on Thursday October 04 2018, @10:40AM   Printer-friendly
from the truth-campaign-makes-anti-smokers-look-dum dept.

F.D.A. Seizes Documents From Juul Headquarters

The Food and Drug Administration conducted a surprise inspection of the headquarters of the e-cigarette maker Juul Labs last Friday, carting away more than a thousand documents it said were related to the company's sales and marketing practices.

The move, announced on Tuesday, was seen as an attempt to ratchet up pressure on the company, which controls 72 percent of the e-cigarette market in the United States and whose products have become popular in high schools. The F.D.A. said it was particularly interested in whether Juul deliberately targeted minors as consumers.

"The new and highly disturbing data we have on youth use demonstrates plainly that e-cigarettes are creating an epidemic of regular nicotine use among teens," the F.D.A. said in a statement. "It is vital that we take action to understand and address the particular appeal of, and ease of access to, these products among kids."

Also at CNN and Time.

Previously: Tobacco Roundup (U.S. to Crack Down on Tobacco, Electronic Cigarettes)
E-Cig Maker Juul Valued at $15-16 Billion


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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Thursday October 04 2018, @12:59PM (2 children)

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Thursday October 04 2018, @12:59PM (#744047)

    What you didn't have those as a kid? You can get them on amazon even today, pretty cheap. Little glass vials of smelly liquid designed to easily crack. They're designed to crack if you throw them hard so my coworker threw them in the metal trash can and they stink up the place pretty well for five minutes.

    A minute with google demonstrates technology marches on and a replacement technology is "liquid ass" in a spray bottle; similar enough idea. Actually that label is a pretty dumb idea, they should sell the liquid ass product with a fake label as a practical joke, so you can get the office stinker who's always spraying the air with "christmas tree pine with cinnamon" which is nice the first time but not after awhile. "oh look someone left a spray bottle of warm apple pie on my desk" "squirt squirt" and her desk smells like liquid ass for an hour. I use the her pronoun as its always a woman who has to go all weirdo on air fresheners, in my experience.

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 04 2018, @02:11PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 04 2018, @02:11PM (#744078)

    Psychologists have proven that the fart spray you mention makes people hate guys who run their bare genitals on kittens, even if the kitten likes it:

    Participants were randomly assigned to one of three conditions differing in the level of disgusting odor present. The conditions were identical except for the quantity of fart spray applied to the bag lining a trash bucket hidden approximately 6 feet from the participant.
    [...]
    Matthew is playing with his new kitten late one night. He is wearing only his boxer shorts, and the kitten sometimes walks over his genitals. Eventually, this arouses him, and he begins to rub his bare genitals along the kitten’s body. The kitten purrs, and seems to enjoy the contact. How wrong is it for Matthew to be rubbing himself against the kitten?

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2562923/#APP1 [nih.gov]

    • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday October 04 2018, @07:09PM

      by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Thursday October 04 2018, @07:09PM (#744258) Homepage Journal

      Some day, I hope to perform the kind of research that scores government grants so I can study the attitudes among the American people of eating your dog after it was killed in a car crash.

      As for legalizing marriage among first cousins:

      Not long after my hot teenage first cousin kissed me smack on the lips when I was but nine years old, my father quite cheerfully explained tome that it was completely cool to "marry" one's _second_ cousin, but to "marry" one's first cousin would result in children with such recessive traits as webbed fingers and toes.

      --
      Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]