Electronic Cigarette Company Juul Agrees To $440Mln Settlement In Underage Vaping Probe

WASHINGTON (UrduPoint News / Sputnik – 07th September, 2022) The digital cigarette firm Juul Labs, Inc. has agreed to pay $440 million to dozens of US states to settle an investigation into the corporate’s advertising and marketing marketing campaign allegedly concentrating on youth, Connecticut Attorney General William Tong stated.

“Attorney General William Tong today led 34 states and territories in announcing a $438.5 million agreement in principle with Juul Labs, resolving a two-year bipartisan investigation into the e-cigarette manufacturer’s marketing and sales practices,” Tong stated in a press launch on Tuesday.

Tong additionally stated the settlement will finish the corporate’s advertising and marketing marketing campaign to the youth, which he claimed had created a brand new era of nicotine addicts, and can ship million of Dollars throughout the United States to cut back tobacco use.

In July, the US meals and Drug Administration (FDA) suspended its order directing Juul Labs to take away its digital cigarettes from the market.

In June, the FDA banned Juul from promoting its digital cigarettes within the United States. The scrutiny of the vaping market, 70% of which is managed by Juul, got here after a sequence of deaths and extreme lung illness circumstances that the authorities linked to youth e-cigarette use.