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Juul Targeted Schools and Youth Camps, House Panel on Vaping Claims - The New York Times

WASHINGTON — Last summer, with public concern about teenage vaping growing, Juul Labs paid a charter school organization in Baltimore $134,000 to set up a five-week summer camp to teach children healthy lifestyles.The curriculum was created by Juul — maker of the very vaping devices that were causing the most alarm among parents, health experts and public officials.In April 2017, a Juul representative visited the Dwight School in New York City to meet with students — with no teachers present — and told them the company’s e-cigarettes were “totally safe.”Other schools across the country were offered $10,000 from the e-cigarette company for the right to talk to students in classrooms or after ... [Read more]

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Juul, the e-cig maker started at Stanford, watches its US market share get vaporized

It's almost Shakespearean.Juul, the e-cigarette company that took the U.S. by storm five years ago -- and which was valued at its peak at $38 billion -- is about to get kicked out of the country, according to the WSJ. Per the outlet's report earlier today, the Food & Drug Administration could announce as early as today that the San Francisco-based outfit is no longer allowed to sell its products in the U.S.The "marketing denial order," writes the... [Read more]

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