is planning to require tobacco companies to slash the amount of nicotine in their cigarettes. market, though it later suspended the ban citing “scientific issues” that warrant a review of the decision. Ban Suspension : The Food and Drug Administration ordered Juul to stop selling e-cigarettes on the U.S.Youth Vaping Settlement: Juul tentatively agreed to pay $438.5 million to settle an investigation by nearly three dozen states over marketing and sales practices that they contend set off the teen vaping crisis.Read More on Smoking, Vaping and E-Cigarettes If they were really that bad for you, they'd make them less accessible."
"I mean, you walk into the Stop 'N' Go, and there's a whole wall of them right up front at the cash register. "I figure if it's really so bad for you, they wouldn't be selling them everywhere," he said. "They can just shrink it up and make it go away." She laughed and lit a Marlboro with the orange tip of her boyfriend's cigarette.īrian Grindele, a burly youth of 18 with a T-shirt advertising "Coed Naked Beer Games" and a partiality to Camels, said that reports on the dangers of smoking must be exaggerated. "I heard they have some cure for cancer now anyway," said Sylvia Babb, 17, who smokes a pack a day and had her first cigarette when she was 12. And many seem equally oblivious to the warnings from health experts that cigarettes are lethal.
But to many of the teen-agers gathered on a hot Texas night at the Mosquito Festival in Clute, or in Surfside, a beach town a few miles away, that controversy might as well be taking place light years away.