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