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Vaping causes popcorn lung and Secondhand vaping is as bad as secondhand smoking
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Vaping causes popcorn lung and Secondhand vaping is as bad as secondhand smoking
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The New York Attorney General has announced that its youth vaping lawsuit against Juul is over, ending with an agreement that distribute a $462 million settlement between six states and Washington DC. “JUUL lit a nationwide public health crisis by putting addictive products in the hands of minors and convincing them that it’s harmless,” Attorney General Letitia James said in a statement. “Today they are paying the price for the harm they caused.” The settlement will be split among the states of New York, California, Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Mexico and the District of Columbia.
The 2019 lawsuit alleged that Juul engaging in deceptive marketing and illegally sold products to minors by glamorizing vaping with ads that featured “young models using fruity, sweet and minty flavors that appealed to youth.” In addition to the monetary penalty, the settlement includes strict restrictions to keep Juul from marketing its products that way in the future, including a ban on showing persons under 35 years of age using its products and rules that would keep Juul product placement from appearing in movies, tv shows, video games and even virtual reality.
This is the largest multi-state settlement Juul has made yet, but it’s only a small part of the total the company has paid so far. In 2022, the company agreed to pay $1.2 billion, collectively settling thousands of personal and government lawsuits.
Juul will have 8 years to pay out the $462 million settlement, and it might need it. According to a 2022 valuation based on Cigarette maker Altria’s investment in the company, Juul’s worth has dropped dramatically since 2018. Despite the settlement, Juul is attempting to remain optimistic. “With this settlement, we are nearing total resolution of the company’s historical legal challenges and securing certainty for our future,” the company told ABC News. “Since our company-wide reset in the fall of 2019, underage use of JUUL products has declined by 95% based on the National Youth Tobacco Survey.”
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/juul-will-pay-462-million-to-6-states-in-underage-vaping-settlement-211701541.html?src=rss
DOUBLE the price of vapes and sell them in plain packs like cigarettes to deter kids, say campaigners.
Anti-smoking crusaders want an extra £4 tax on disposable e-cigarettes like Elf Bars, which are sold for less than a fiver.
Action on Smoking and Health wants an extra £4 tax on disposable e-cigarettes like Elf Bars, which are sold for less than a fiver.[/caption]
The vapes are popular with children thanks to their bright colours and fruity flavours, said Action on Smoking and Health.
Deborah Arnott, chief executive of ASH, said action is “urgently needed” to crack down on youth use.
It comes as Tesco, Morisons and Sainsbury’s have removed the Elf Bar 600 series from shelves after it was found to contain illegal levels of nicotine.
Ms Arnott said: “Smoking is much more harmful than vaping and smoking remains the biggest threat to our children’s health.
“But vaping is not risk-free, and in the light of the recent increase in children vaping, government action is urgently needed to tighten regulation and increase enforcement.”
She added: “Children who vape mainly use cheap disposables, which can be bought for under a fiver.
“They could easily be made less affordable in the March Budget with the introduction of a specific tax for single use disposable vapes.
“In one simple step this would reduce both child vaping and the vast quantities of single use vapes being thrown into landfill.”
Around 3.2million people in the UK use e-cigarettes.
Around half of adults aged 18 to 24 that vape using disposable devices last year, up from only 2.8 per cent in 2021, according to ASH.
Research suggests e-cigarettes are significantly less dangerous to people’s health than regular cigarettes, reducing the risks of illnesses like cancer and heart disease.
However, data on how long-term use impacts the body is sparse.
ASH’s call comes as councils also put pressure on No10 to crackdown on vape use in teens.
The Local Government Association said e-cigarettes should be kept “out-of-sight and out-of-reach” in stores.
It said vapes should only be sold in plain packaging and kept behind the counter in shops.
VAPING puts people at a higher risk of developing severe Covid, a study has revealed.
Healthy, young e-cigarette users who caught the disease were found to have increased lung inflammation, which could cause lingering cardio-vascular complications.
Vaping puts people at a higher risk of developing severe Covid, a study has revealed[/caption]
The findings are from a US study of 45 non-smokers, 30 vapers and 29 tobacco smokers.
The vapers and smokers were found to have higher levels of blood plasma proteins that the virus needed to survive.
Researcher Dr Theodoros Kelesidis said: “The key message is that smoking is the worst, but vaping is not innocent.
“This has been shown for many lung diseases but not for Covid.
“It was a quite interesting and novel finding that vaping changed the levels of key proteins that the virus uses to replicate.”
Dr Kelesidis added: “E-cigarette vapers may be at higher risk than non-smokers of developing infections and inflammatory disorders of the lungs.
“Electronic cigarettes are not harmless and should be used for only the shortest time possible in smoking cessation, and not at all by non-smokers.”