Juul Inc Is Being Accused of Destroying The Health of the Younger Generation

Government agencies and school districts are suing Juul accusing them of addicting a generation on nicotine

Thursday, January 30, 2020 - One hit and you're "hooked for life" accurately describes the nicotine addictive nature of vaping on millions of middle school and high school children. Juul vape pens and cartridges deliver so much nicotine, an addictive and health-destroying substance, that experts think that the devices should be regulated as a medical device by the Food and Drug Administration. To this end more and more lawsuits are being filed by school districts, towns and municipalities against Juul for illegally targeting school children through internet social media and failing to warn them that their product contained large amounts of nicotine and that chemicals in the vape cartridge made it easier for people to inhale large doses, causing instant nicotine addiction. Millions of teenagers in the United States and abroad have become accidentally yet permanently nicotine-addicted, without knowing that vaping would have such a devastating effect on their health. Vape users have been admitted to hospital for various lung injuries and recently for seizures caused by excessive nicotine inhalation.

One can not overstate the magnitude of the vape nicotine addiction catastrophe engulfing the country as the District Attorney from Pennsylvania's Bucks County has filed suit alleging that Juul "violated state consumer protection law, engaging in deceptive and unfair business practices that have harmed the public," and that their e-cigarettes have turned the entire younger generation into nicotine addicts. According to The Philadelphia Inquirer, the Bucks County DA alleges that Juul Inc., "used sweet flavors and slick marketing to lure kids as young as middle school age to nicotine addiction." District Attorney Matthew D. Weintraub is quoted by the publication as telling a Doylestown, PA, news conference audience "Through the use of new technologies and deceptive and predatory marketing to children via social media, Juul (Inc.) has turned a generation into addicts unwittingly." The Bucks County DA is concerned with his county's higher than average teen vaping statistics that show that 37% of teenagers admit to vaping.

The Bucks County DA lawsuit mirrors another filed in November 2019 by Montgomery County District Attorney Keven R. Steel in Norristown, PA., the state's third-largest county, that alleges Juul Inc, " has turned a generation of minors into addicts, constantly craving a hit of nicotine, and that the company has violated the state's consumer protection statute, targeting "residents, particularly minors, who have become the innocent victims of e-cigarette manufacturers, marketers and retailers, both online and in-store." In addition to these lawsuits,15 California school districts have filed suit against Juul Inc. for marketing e-cigarettes and related products to children, and undoing decades of work educating minors on the dangers of nicotine addiction.

In a separate civil suit filed by Julien Piltzer, Rebecca O'Brien, Tracey Zuniga, and Connor Houston, in Los Angeles County Superior Court in California, the four each allege that they developed permanent nicotine addiction from vaping and that Juul Inc. failed to warn them of the nicotine levels nor the chemical additives that make inhaling large doses of nicotine possible.

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Lawyers for JUUL Vape Pen Lawsuits

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