I agree with most complaints about them getting teens hooked, but I hope they stick around for adult smokers. The sensation of the Juul device was good enough to for me to completely stop smoking, where box mods failed. So I still had a nic addiction but without the awful lung health. Unfortunately since the SF ban, I have gone back to a pack a day, since I have no car to drive out of SF and public transport has shut down. Thanks sf :)
Altria, aka Philip Morris, took a 35% stake in Juul for $12B, and also happen to have a competing product in the iQOS system. The conspiracy theorist in me feels like the investment was to kill the Juul and will just factored into the cost of doing business.
Can we please not use WSJ links when there are perfectly fine other ones out there?<p>LA Times link: <a href="https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-09-03/juul-plans-layoffs-may-exit-markets" rel="nofollow">https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-09-03/juul-plans...</a><p>Edit: Apparent LA Times <i>also</i> is paywall ...<p><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelsandler/2020/09/03/juul-may-lay-off-more-than-50-of-its-workforce-report-says/" rel="nofollow">https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelsandler/2020/09/03/juul-m...</a><p><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-juul-layoffs/juul-to-drastically-cut-workforce-explore-exiting-some-markets-idUSKBN25U36A" rel="nofollow">https://www.reuters.com/article/us-juul-layoffs/juul-to-dras...</a>