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Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts) Thu Jun 23, 2022, 11:27 AM Jun 2022

FDA bans JUUL ecigs

@nytimes: Breaking News: The FDA ordered Juul to stop selling e-cigarettes in the U.S., a big setback to the brand blamed for the teen vaping crisis. https://nyti.ms/3OirPAE

@_samaleman: they really banned juul before AR-15s

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FDA bans JUUL ecigs (Original Post) Laura PourMeADrink Jun 2022 OP

The company should sue to reclassify them as weapons, they'd be legal everywhere bucolic_frolic Jun 2022 #1

Something is really screwy about this pic huh Laura PourMeADrink Jun 2022 #4

Nicotine is safer than bullets /nt bucolic_frolic Jun 2022 #6

I don't use overpriced, crappy JUUL but that's pretty friggin lame Hugh_Lebowski Jun 2022 #2

FDA blamed them for pushing fruit flavored ones to kids. Laura PourMeADrink Jun 2022 #3

Looks like Stephen Dorff is going to have to find another way to earn a living. Aristus Jun 2022 #5

bucolic_frolic

(55,818 posts)

1. The company should sue to reclassify them as weapons, they'd be legal everywhere

Reply to Laura PourMeADrink (Original post)

Thu Jun 23, 2022, 11:28 AM

Jun 2022

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)

4. Something is really screwy about this pic huh

Reply to bucolic_frolic (Reply #1)

Thu Jun 23, 2022, 12:41 PM

Jun 2022

bucolic_frolic

(55,818 posts)

6. Nicotine is safer than bullets /nt

Reply to Laura PourMeADrink (Reply #4)

Thu Jun 23, 2022, 12:53 PM

Jun 2022

Hugh_Lebowski

(33,643 posts)

2. I don't use overpriced, crappy JUUL but that's pretty friggin lame

Reply to Laura PourMeADrink (Original post)

Thu Jun 23, 2022, 11:38 AM

Jun 2022

Seems like they FDA are picking winners here, as VUSE for example (and there are others) has damn-near identical products, and they're not being banned.

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)

3. FDA blamed them for pushing fruit flavored ones to kids.

Reply to Hugh_Lebowski (Reply #2)

Thu Jun 23, 2022, 12:40 PM

Jun 2022

They removed those from market. Yet FDA kept gunning for them... Singled them out, you're right.

Aristus

(72,523 posts)

5. Looks like Stephen Dorff is going to have to find another way to earn a living.

Reply to Laura PourMeADrink (Original post)

Thu Jun 23, 2022, 12:46 PM

Jun 2022

n/t

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