In a sweeping move by the Food and Drug Administration, regulators on Thursday ordered the Juul e-cigarette company to pull all products from the market, in one of the most dramatic actions the agency has taken in efforts to crack down on youth vaping. Juul makes up a large part of the $6 billion industry and has been widely blamed for fueling teen vaping nationwide.
As a result, the company must immediately stop selling and distributing vaping devices and pods, and other products currently on the market must be removed. The FDA said Juul failed to show that its products benefit public health. E-cigarette companies touted vaping as a less harmful alternative to smoking when they came on the market a decade ago. The American Lung Association on Thursday, pointing to Juul as a main driver behind youth vaping, called the decision “long overdue.”
