A Juul representative repeatedly told a ninth-grade classroom that the company's e-cigarette was 'totally safe' before showing underage students the device, according to two teenagers who testified under oath to Congress
A Juul representative repeatedly told a ninth-grade classroom that the company's e-cigarette was"totally safe" before showing underage students the device, according to two teenagers who testified under oath to Congress on Wednesday.
The comments came at the first of two hearings organized by the House Oversight Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy to"examine [Juul's] responsibility for the youth nicotine addiction epidemic." Company executives, including Juul's co-founder, will testify on Thursday.
Pressley said that"many of Juul's tactics seem to be right out of the Big Tobacco playbook," pointing out that for decades, tobacco companies targeted black communities, especially with menthol cigarettes."It's extremely disturbing," she said."We've been here before. We don't need a bunch of studies. The only studies we need are the millions of casualties that are behind us and that we run the risk of seeing ahead of us.
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