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The topic of the news is banning of Juul E-cigarettes off the market over safety concerns
according to the source ‘The Washington Post’. This news was published on June 23, 2022 in
USA. Juul is an American electronic cigarette company which was founded in 2015 by James
Monsees and Adam Bowen. The internal valuation of the company Juul Labs Inc. Earlier this
year was 13 billion$ according to Forbes.

Juul, the once-booming Silicon Valley start-up widely blamed for igniting the youth vaping
epidemic, was grounded Thursday by federal regulators who ordered all of its e-cigarette
products off the market, a move they blamed on “inconsistent and conflicting data” on safety.

The Food and Drug Administration said it was denying Juul’s applications to continue selling the
company’s e-cigarette device and prefilled cartridges in menthol and tobacco flavors. The big
surprise was the reason: Rather than focusing on youth use, the agency said the company failed
to provide sufficient information proving the products were safe — for people of any age.

The agency said some of the company’s study findings raised concerns about possible damage to
DNA and “potentially harmful chemicals leaching” from the prefilled cartridges that contain
liquid nicotine, flavorings and other chemicals.

 Prefilled Cartridges: Prefilled liquid nicotine cartridge means any sealed container
that is sold filled with liquid nicotine and can be inserted directly into an e-cigarette
to provide nicotine vapor to an e- cigarette user.