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FDA orders Juul to remove all its e-cigarettes from US market

BMJ 2022; 377 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.o1568 (Published 24 June 2022) Cite this as: BMJ 2022;377:o1568
  1. Jacqui Wise
  1. Kent

The US Food and Drug Administration has ordered Juul to remove all its e-cigarettes from the US market.1

Juul is one of the world’s biggest e-cigarette manufacturers, with around three quarters of the market in the US. Its popularity with young people has made it a target of US regulators and local authorities.

The ban came a day after the Biden administration announced plans to establish a maximum nicotine level to reduce the addictiveness of cigarettes and other tobacco products.2

The FDA said it had not received clinical information to suggest an immediate hazard associated with the use of the Juul device or Juul pods. But it determined that the company’s premarket tobacco product applications …

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