Electronic cigarette maker Juul has settled lawsuits covering approximately 10,000 plaintiffs which include about 5,000 California cases and a number of school districts. The school districts sued the company in an effort to recoup costs incurred by what they call a “vaping epidemic” among students. A lawyer representing 60 such districts hailed the settlement and called it a “tremendous victory.”
Juul has long been seen as the prime cause of ...
continue reading...A new study published in the American Journal of Medicine Open posits a 46% increase in the risk of broken bones brought about by vaping. Fractures to the hip, spine, and wrist were tracked in a research piece put out by Dr. Dayawa Agoons of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
The study pulls from the healthcare data of over 5,500 adults in the United States who also had data collected during a national health ...
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A Pennsylvania man represented by Lopez McHugh Attorney Michael Katz will have his case heard in federal court as he fights for compensation after a vape battery exploded in his pocket and left him with severe burns and ongoing pain.
The battery was manufactured by Sony and is what is known as an 18650. Prior to the meteoric growth of ...
continue reading...It wasn’t as bad as it could have been, but the FDA recently put all but the final nail in the coffin of the vaping industry by denying millions of applications to market and produce vaping products for distribution in the United States. The decision effectively killed a large number of small to mid-size producers of flavored vaping products
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North Carolina is the first among 13 states and the District of Columbia to reach a settlement with vape-maker Juul Labs for what has been described as the company’s role in triggering a youth vaping epidemic and rolling back decades of progress on teen nicotine usage. In announcing the settlement, state Attorney General Josh Stein lambasted the company saying that “for years, Juul targeted young ...
A new study seems to reinforce what those in the vaping community have been saying all along: the type of heating coil used in the devices, along with the amount of voltage sent through that coil, can have significant impacts on the overall risk of the activity, including damage to the user’s lungs.
Vaporizers work by heating a liquid to the point of vaporization by running electricity through a coil that is surrounded by a wick; in ...
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