{"id":4185,"date":"2018-09-07T20:53:23","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T20:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=4185"},"modified":"2018-09-07T20:53:23","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T20:53:23","slug":"fda-thinking-about-ban-on-vaping-flavours-juuls-on-the-radar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=4185","title":{"rendered":"FDA thinking about ban on vaping flavours; Juuls on the radar"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Oooh, I will DEFINITELY be keeping my eye on this one. The Food and Drug Administration is apparently mulling the possibility of banning vaping flavours and is reviewing any regulations that are needed for Juuls, as well.<\/p>\n

Juuls are a fairly new type of e-cigarette that doesn’t look like an e-cig at all. It looks like a little flash drive that plugs into a laptop computer … and they DO plug into laptop computers in order to recharge.<\/p>\n

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Anyway, for now the FDA is doing anything, but will be starting an anti-teen vaping initiative in mid-September.<\/p>\n

From a USA Today<\/a> article:<\/p>\n

This month, the FDA asked four e-cigarette companies<\/a>\u00a0for information about the appeal of their products to youths and said it could take enforcement action against the companies based on what it learns.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0mid-September,\u00a0the FDA will launch a vaping prevention\u00a0campaign targeting 10 million youths who vape or are open to trying it, Scott Gottlieb said. It will continue enforcement against retailers that sell to minors.<\/p>\n

“We are very concerned that we could be addicting a whole generation of young people,” Gottlieb said. “We only have a narrow window of opportunity to address it.”<\/p>\n

Instead of committing to regulate flavor, the FDA solicited more research on flavor’s role.\u00a0Robin Koval, CEO of the anti-tobacco group Truth Initiative, said there is ample evidence that\u00a0flavors\u00a0attract\u00a0teens.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

USA Today interviewed a bunch of young college students who vaped. The interview that really jumped out at me came from Kevin Kee.<\/p>\n

From the article:<\/p>\n

Kevin Kee, 22, took up vaping to give up smoking when he was starting college\u00a0but found himself going back to smoking again when he noticed\u00a0the Juul was \u201cmore ingrained in my\u00a0life than cigarettes ever were.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWith the Juul, you can vape anywhere, 24\/7. I went through pods way quicker \u2013 I could go through a pod in one day,”\u00a0Kee said. “My tolerance was higher, and I didn\u2019t want that kind of life coming out of college.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kee said\u00a0he thinks\u00a0people who vape to quit smoking are a minority and most people “vape just to vape.” Out of college and working, he’s given up cigarettes and vaping\u00a0but fears a flavor ban would really hurt others.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“It\u2019s become so ingrained in our culture that banning flavored nicotine would be like the prohibition,” he said.<\/p>\n

People vape just to vape, not to quit cigarettes. I’m all for people using ecigs to get off cigarettes. What I’m not all for is kids 14-, 15-, 16-year-olds becoming addicted to nicotine to begin with via ecigs or Juuls.<\/p>\n

Gottlieb also said that the FDA is keeping an eye on Juuls and for its alleged marketing to teens.<\/p>\n

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Also from the USA TODAY<\/a> article regarding the controversial and relatively new Juuls:<\/p>\n

A class-action lawsuit filed at U.S. District Court in San Francisco by Juul users alleged that the vaping giant used a two-pronged approach to target adult smokers and teens.<\/p>\n

One San Diego\u00a0teen said she was introduced to Juul by eighth-grade classmates. When her device broke last November, she obtained a warranty replacement through Juul\u2019s website even though she was only 14, the lawsuit says.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit alleges Juul targeted youth and nonsmokers through ads and \u201csocial media blitzes\u201d using \u201calluring imagery.\u201d Adult\u00a0smokers were wooed with the promise of a lower or equal amount of nicotine compared with\u00a0a cigarette even though the product is designed to be more potent and addictive than cigarettes, the lawsuit says.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn a puff-for-puff basis, this was designed to be more powerful than the gold standard \u2013 the cigarette,\u201d said\u00a0Esfand Nafisi, a San Francisco Bay Area attorney representing Juul users. \u201cThat potency was either not disclosed or misrepresented continuously from the time of the company\u2019s inception.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, the moral of the story goes … teen smoking has been all but\u00a0 eliminated, but the struggle continues, and likely will always continue as long as nicotine is a legal product and companies are looking to make billions off of it by attracting new users … be it cigarettes, e-cigs or Juuls. I suspect it will be a never-ending battle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oooh, I will DEFINITELY be keeping my eye on this one. The Food and Drug Administration is apparently mulling the possibility of banning vaping flavours and is reviewing any regulations that are needed for Juuls, as well. Juuls are a fairly new type of e-cigarette that doesn’t look like an e-cig at all. It looks … Continue reading FDA thinking about ban on vaping flavours; Juuls on the radar<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[901,21,22,900],"tags":[903,591,592,902],"class_list":["post-4185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cig-flavourings","category-e-cigarettes","category-e-cigs","category-juul","tag-e-cig-flavourings","tag-e-cigarettes","tag-e-cigs","tag-juul"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/flavored-e-cigs-1024x448.jpg?fit=1024%2C448&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hpEa-15v","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4201,"url":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=4201","url_meta":{"origin":4185,"position":0},"title":"FDA to ban flavoured e-cig products from minimarts","author":"Pepe Lepew","date":"November 9, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, this is progress, I wonder if it will have any effect. 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