{"id":4331,"date":"2018-11-13T22:34:15","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T22:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/juul-suspends-flavoured-e-cigarette-sales-to-curb-teen-use\/"},"modified":"2018-11-13T22:34:15","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T22:34:15","slug":"juul-suspends-flavoured-e-cigarette-sales-to-curb-teen-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/juul-suspends-flavoured-e-cigarette-sales-to-curb-teen-use\/","title":{"rendered":"JUUL suspends flavoured e-cigarette sales to curb teen use"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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E-cigarette maker JUUL Labs has agreed to temporarily halt sales of certain flavours in a bid to curb teenage use of their product.<\/p>\n

Sales of all flavours except tobacco, menthol and mint will be halted in all retailers – except on JUUL’s website – until shops can verify the buyer’s age.<\/p>\n

Chief executive Kevin Burns said JUUL did not want to be “an on-ramp for America’s youth” to take up smoking.<\/p>\n

The company is under pressure to curb its popularity among the young.<\/p>\n

In September, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said it was considering banning the sale of flavoured e-cigarettes<\/a>, citing an “epidemic” of use among teens.<\/p>\n

The FDA gave the five biggest agencies – JUUL, Vuse, MarkTen, blu e-cigs, and Logic – 60 days to come forward with plans to address the concerns, or face penalties.<\/p>\n

Under its new rules, JUUL will no longer sell products to anyone under 21 years of age – even in states where the legal age to buy such products is lower. <\/p>\n

The company will halt sales of the flavoured products in all retail outlets until those shops can prove they have a system in place to verify consumer’s ages. <\/p>\n

Moreover, JUUL is shutting down its Instagram and Facebook social media channels, and said it would work with companies to take “unauthorised, youth-oriented content” from these platforms related to its products.<\/p>\n

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There were however concerns the company is not going far enough.<\/p>\n

JUUL was expected to permanently discontinue its fruity flavours<\/a>, rather than merely halting their sales temporarily, according to a report by US broadcaster CNBC last week. <\/p>\n

Altria, the tobacco firm which owns Marlboro, announced it would stop selling several of its e-cigarette products altogether<\/a> in October in response to FDA concerns.<\/p>\n

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The JUUL’s small size, multiple flavours and discrete shape – it looks somewhat like a USB drive – has made it a hit among teens in the US.<\/p>\n

“In my opinion it looks like the coolest thing ever,” one student told the New York Times in an article on the new phenomenon<\/a>. “Almost futuristic.”<\/p>\n

JUUL has cornered close to 75% of the e-cigarette market in the US, up from 13.6% early in 2017.<\/p>\n

The appeal of e-cigarettes to teens is widespread and has raised alarms in other countries, including the UK.<\/p>\n

However, there is little consensus about how to regulate the industry.<\/p>\n

In August, a parliamentary committee in the UK issued a report<\/a> calling for rules regarding e-cigarettes to be relaxed.<\/p>\n

It cited estimates from Public Health England that e-cigarettes are 95% less harmful than normal cigarettes.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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