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Comments Grab State Legislators Attention

Alex suggests that when commenting on the flavor ban it’s better to add a distinctive comment to a pre-existing comment or you can simply create an original comment altogether. The goal of the comments is to grab state legislators attention. He drives his point by stating that duplicate comments won’t garner much attention.

The Dangers of Banning JUUL Pods

This ban has been placed since an overwhelming amount of underage users have been at serious health risks. However, pulling Juul off the market might not have been the smartest move to make. Juul pods might have been the most popular during the outbreak, but more and more cases are being confirmed even with Juul off the market. This ban could cause more damage by limiting the access of cigarette alternatives.

Deeming Rule Challenge

In the vaping world, they have extremely strong plaintiffs that will come in handy to successfully prove their points. This particular case has the possibility of opening floodgates for other challenges ruled by the federal government. Last week, an online federal appeals court held in the appeal of Moose Jooce, et al v. Food and Drug Administration. This appeal is challenging the FDA Deeming Rule for violating the First Amendment of the Constitution and the Appointments Clause. Back in February, the case was broken down into three complaint groups that specified small vaping businesses issues. The lawsuit ended up being in favor of the FDA by Judge Christopher Cooper.

JUUL Ads target teens through Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network

JUUL Labs have been under fire for targeting underage children for e-cigarette advertisements. It turns out that the big-name tobacco brand purchased online advertisements on specific networks watched by teens such as Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, and even teen magazines.  To entice children to purchase the now banned flavors, JUUL scoured through online ads and found what websites that children frequent and adverse their products there. In a lawsuit by the Massachusetts attorney general office, claims also state that JUUL also sent their advertisements through educational websites that children use daily in school to complete work such as coolmathgames.com.

TV Imagery Persuading Teens

Marketing companies understand that most of their viewers are young adults, making them target the youth to gain more business. According to Preventive Medicine, “Young Viewers with the highest exposure to TV tobacco depictions can be three times as likely to start vaping as those who don't.” Access to these products are very easy for these minors, and it starts with promotional advertising.

Is It Safe To Vape During COVID-19?

Unless you’ve been living under a literal rock you're familiar with the infamous Coronavirus that has turned the world on it’s back in less than a 5 month span. Everything is shut down, people are out of jobs, losing homes, some even lose their lives; in a nutshell, life as we know it is a hot blistering mess.