Explosive Zunahme von Juul
bei Kindern und Jugendlichen durch Werbung, Tarnung als USB-Stick,
verschiedene aromatische Aromen, rasche Nikotinabgabe in Blut und Gehirn (durch
pH-Senkung mittels Benzoesäure werden höhere Nikotindosen
ohne Rachenreizung tief inhaliert und gelangen vergleichbar schnell ins
Gehirn wie beim Rauchen einer Marlboro). Ebenso hohe Nikotinbelastungen verursachen Phix (gleichfalls ein Benzoat)
und Bo (ein Laevulinat) und andere E-Zigaretten mit sauren Additiven,
die es vor allem Rauchanfängern erleichtern, hohe Nikotindosen zu
inhalieren.
Juul is fooling policymakers and the public into believing that Juul is helping solve the youth e-cigarette epidemic
when in fact they’re the main cause of the problem (by enticing kids with sweet flavors like mango, fruit, crème and mint, then hooked them with a strong nicotine hit):
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced a series of critical and historic enforcement actions
related to the sale and marketing of e-cigarettes to kids. In the
largest coordinated enforcement effort in the FDA’s history, the agency
issued more than
1,300 warning letters and civil money penalty complaints (fines)
to retailers who illegally sold JUUL and other e-cigarette products to
minors during a nationwide, undercover blitz of brick-and-mortar and
online stores this summer. As a result of these violations and other
indications that e-cigarette use among youth has hit epidemic
proportions, FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D. signaled that the
agency intends to take new and significant steps to address this
challenge in a
speech at the agency’s headquarters.
“In the coming weeks, we’ll take additional action under our
Youth Tobacco Prevention Plan
to immediately address the youth access to, and the appeal of, these
products,” said Gottlieb. “Today, we asked five e-cigarette
manufacturers to put forward plans to immediately and substantially
reverse these trends or face a potential decision by the FDA to
reconsider extending the compliance dates for submission of premarket
applications.”
Those
five national brands – JUUL, Vuse, MarkTen XL, blu e-cigs, and Logic –
collectively comprise over 97% of the current e-cigarette market in the
United States and made up the majority of the products illegally sold
to minors as part of the blitz. The agency is asking each company to
submit to FDA within 60 days plans describing how they will address the
widespread youth use of their products.
If
the companies fail to do so, or if the plans do not appropriately
address the issue, the FDA will consider whether it would be appropriate
to revisit the current policy that results in these products remaining
on the market without a marketing order from the agency. This could mean
requiring these brands to remove some or all of their flavored products
that may be contributing to the rise in youth use from the market until
they receive premarket authorization and otherwise meet all of their
obligations under the law.
In
addition, the FDA also issued 12 warning letters to other online
retailers for selling misleadingly labeled and/or advertised e-liquids
resembling kid-friendly food products such as candy and cookies. These
products were the subject of
agency action in May and, subsequently, are no longer being sold
with the offending labeling and advertising by the companies that
received the May warning letters. Several of these retailers were also
cited for illegally selling the products to minors.
Juul & Altria (P. Morris) attempt to deceive FDA!