Enlarge / Crème brulee getting torched. (credit: Getty | Anne Cusack)
Leading e-cigarette maker Juul on Thursday announced that it is immediately suspending the sale of some of its flavored products—Mango, Fruit, Creme (crème brulee), and Cucumber.
Notably, mint and menthol flavored products are not included in the pack of extinguished flavors.
The move is ostensibly to ease growing alarm over the spike of vaping among teens—who strongly prefer flavored products. About 25% of high school seniors reported recent e-cigarette use in a health survey this year, up from 11% in 2017. About 12% of students said this year that they used the products on a daily basis.
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Source: Ars Technica – Juul halts sales of some flavors—but not the ones teens use most