The E-cigarette manufacturer Juul Labs is a newspaper report that to the attention of the US justice authorities. Against the Start-up of a criminal the course of a legal investigation, the U.S. attorney’s office in California, wrote the “Wall Street Journal” on Monday (local time), citing inaugurated circles. Juul made a request to the report unanswered. A justice spokesman said the “Wall Street Journal” that he could confirm an ongoing investigation, nor deny.
Heavy criticism due to Marketing methods
The company from San Francisco is because of dubious methods in the marketing of E-cigarettes to young people in the criticism. Other US authorities investigating Juul. E-cigarettes are in the USA now very controversial. President Donald Trump has already announced “very strict” rules, and described the use of E-cigarettes as a “big Problem”. Marlene Mortler (CSU), drug Commissioner of the Federal government, also spoke against the marketing methods of Juul. Already in January, she says, the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” that the market introduction of the E-cigarette was a “Disaster for the health of hundreds of thousands of young people who had never before had a cigarette in the Hand”.
