Posted on 06/28/2021 2:08:30 PM PDT by deport
E-cigarette company Juul Labs will pay $40 million and make changes to its business practices to settle the first state lawsuit that alleged it marketed to teens, North Carolina state attorneys announced on Monday.
"Under this consent order, Juul cannot sell mint. It cannot sell mango, it cannot sell crème brulee, or any other flavor," without authorization from the US Food and Drug Administration, Stein said in a news briefing after a court hearing on Monday.
"Juul must abandon all marketing strategies and content that appeals to young people. Juul will be prohibited from influencer advertising, outdoor advertising near schools, sponsoring sporting events and concerts, most social media advertising," he said.
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Jeez, they really do miss that tobacco revenue.
They should ask for the Exxon Valdez payment plan.
The government should be sued for marketing homosexuality to kids.
Legal: Chemically castrating a 7 year old
Illegal: Mango Juul Pods
Ping
Please Mass'a ... kin ah make peach cobbleh ?
Hey kids, water vapor is too harmful. Go get some cigarettes, totally natural so you know they’re good! plus you’ll be doing your part for society by paying those massive... I mean important taxes!
“... it cannot sell crème brulee ... “
‘Cause the youngsters in North Carolina are all about crème brulee. Had no idea that tar heel youth were such gourmet foodies.
Why hasn’t CNN suffered like this for the Poison they Sell??
Hey kids, water vapor is too harmful.
Water vapor is the most abundant greenhouse gas in the atmosphere by several orders of magnitude. So, you may be right.
😉
$20,000,000 to the lawyers and coupons for the customers?
Oh, I’ve been following this thread since it began.
What the hell does, “Marketed to teens,” even mean?
Was there a, “Dora the Vaping Explorer,” series airing when I wasn’t looking?
They going to ban Godzilla movies because the giant monster CLEARLY looks like a vaper.
(That last sentence reads like something from The Babylon Bee -but it wouldn’t surprise me a bit if it happened)
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