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JUUL e-cigarette with a battery and differently flavored pods. Vaping presents health risks that are definitionally higher than those of simple abstinence, as no independent health benefits have been reported, while nicotine and cannabis have well-established harms.
And while Juul may not be responsible for the short-term lung injuries that have killed more than 50 Americans, the company has been implicated in the spike in vaping use among teens.
A Florida college student is warning others about the dangers of smoking Juul pods after one of his lungs collapsed from the toxic chemicals in his mint-flavored pods.
Vaping-associated pulmonary injury (VAPI), [4] also known as vaping-associated lung injury (VALI) [1] or e-cigarette, or vaping, product use associated lung injury (E/VALI), [2] [a] is an umbrella term, [15] [16] used to describe lung diseases associated with the use of vaping products that can be severe and life-threatening. [3]
Its widespread use by young people triggered concern from the public health community and multiple investigations by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), [1] [17] and the high nicotine concentrations in Juul was seen as a potential health hazard to young people. [18] Juul agreed to pull certain flavored cartridges, which could entice ...
Juul is largely responsible for the youth e-cigarette epidemic from 2017-2019. These products and its manufacturer clearly do not meet the standard for protecting the public health.
Critics of vaping bans state that vaping is a much safer alternative to smoking tobacco products and that vaping bans incentivize people to return to smoking cigarettes. [148] For example, critics cite the British Journal of Family Medicine in August 2015 which stated, "E-cigarettes are 95% safer than traditional smoking."
The Netflix series "Big Vape" tells the story of the once-dominant Juul Labs—but it and the the U.S. vaping industry remains in flux.