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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: 2) by urza9814 on Thursday October 04 2018, @04:58PM (1 child)
It's already worse than that.
Around here they decided a couple years ago to ban the sale of tobacco for hookahs, with the reasoning being that any kind of flavored tobacco must be banned because it's clearly designed to be sold to children. As far as I know, there's no such thing as unflavored tobacco for a hookah, so they just banned the entire category.
So what did the hookah shops do? They switched from normal tobacco products, which could not legally be sold to minors, to sugar cane syrup. Since there's no tobacco, that stuff CAN legally be sold to minors. I refuse to buy the stuff though, because the few studies I've found about it showed that it actually causes more lung damage than tobacco.
So they banned a product that was harmful and could not be sold to children and replaced it with a product that is potentially MORE harmful which CAN be sold to children. And they claimed they did it to protect the children...
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday October 04 2018, @08:54PM
I expect it was Ronald Reagan that originated the notion that it was cool for legislators and executives to be idiots.
In reality, Ronald Reagan was quite a lot more educated and intelligent than he ever let on, it's just that it worked really well for him to pretend he was a simpleton.
Lather rinse repeat and we have a President and lots of Congresscritters who really _are_ simpletons.
Get This: recall that South Carolina recently received God's Wrath in the form of a thousand-year flood. It happens that South Carolina has a law that specifically _forbid_ the state government to use science when considering regulations having to do with sea level rise.
You just can't make this stuff up, folks.
There's also the Christian preacher who asserts that "Liberals created hurricane Florence to cover up widespread voter fraud". A facebook friend in response posted "You can't argue with batshit crazy".
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]