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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."
Previously: Tobacco Roundup (U.S. to Crack Down on Tobacco, Electronic Cigarettes)
E-Cig Maker Juul Valued at $15-16 Billion
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Thursday October 04 2018, @02:02PM (5 children)
Ho-hum. Color me in contempt. As GP stated, either a substance is legal, or it is not legal. I'm certainly not affected today, but I remember when I was good enough, mature enough, to carry weapons, and to hold lives in my hands, but I wasn't good or mature enough to buy a legal fucking beer.
The age of majority in this country is 18. An 18 year old should have no restrictions, based on age. None. Alcohol, cigarettes, marijuana, whatever. A 17 year old who is in the service, ditto. He/she is man/woman enough to take a life, then he/she is old enough to purchase any damned thing they can afford.
As for the under 18's and non-military - time we stop babying them. They aren't babies by the time they leave elementary school. Some of those kids are more mature than their parents ever were, or ever will be. By the time a kid is mature enough to get a driver's license, he/she should be mature enough to make any damned decision they ever need to make in life. Marriage? Give the couple some counseling, and then give them your blessing. Cigarettes? FFS, if you haven't brainwashed them by the time they are 16, forget it, you're not GOING to brainwash them. Free country? Stop pretending.
Lest you misunderstand my position - FUCK UNJUST LAWS!! Damned CTRL-Left.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 04 2018, @07:32PM (2 children)
Maybe broaden your scope to "fuck authoritarians" instead of always saying "the left". I know, you like to play like Fox News. "Fair and balanced" laaaaawl
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday October 04 2018, @07:44PM (1 child)
Oh, but wait a second. Just hold on. Righties in their tighty whiteys were happy to sell cigarettes to minors, thirty or forty years ago. Righties will sell you strychnine with which to commit suicide, so long as there is a profit in it. As far as I can see, it's the CTRL-Left whose panties are wadded up over this vaping crap. The CTRL-Left is most interested in controlling kids until they are over age 21. Righties? They want to show a profit, and they just don't care so much for all that control. They are more interested in a different kind of control.
(Score: 2) by sjames on Friday October 05 2018, @12:41AM
OTOH, the right is typically more interested in controlling pot banning abortion and restricting birth control, even while telling lower income people they shouldn't have children.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday October 04 2018, @09:14PM
In California specifically - which I am no longer a resident of - I have the idea of proposing a ballot proposition that will grant the right to vote in state and local elections to _anyone_ who has passed the California High School Proficiency Examination.
I did so myself, so I could enroll at the Community College when I was sixteen. While I stayed in high school it would have been completely cool with everyone other than my mother to have simply stopped attending high school that I could attend college full-time. Two years at Solano College, and I could have transferred to Berkeley as a Junior when I was eighteen.
But I digress: the CHSPE is rather more rigorous than the GED, and because it's administered by the state, were this ballot proposition to pass, the state could ensure that the CHSPE would never be diluted so as to give just any fool the vote.
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(Score: 2) by physicsmajor on Friday October 05 2018, @02:18PM
A robust body of work clearly shows that people on average do not fully weigh the consequences of their current actions on their future until they hit 25. Now, there is of course a bell curve but if you want to set a bar, only the car rental people have it right.
This becomes rather relevant when it comes to substances with horrible addictive potential combined with terrible consequences to long term health. I am a libertarian, but free markets have to be informed; lifting restrictions further is NOT the way to go.