Juul Created Culture Of Teen Addicts & #MeToo Movement Reaches The US Military

Via America’s Lawyer: Mike Papantonio and Trial Lawyer Magazine editor Farron Cousins discuss the fast-growing health concerns about Juul and other vaping devices. Plus, Mike Papantonio is joined by legal journalist Mollye Barrows to talk about the rampant issue of sexual assault within our armed forces. While the media has been quick to jump on stories of Harvey Weinstein, Larry Nassar, and Jeffrey Epstein, it seems little thought is given to the toxic culture of sexual abuse among our men and women in uniform.

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Recently, the CEO of Juul e-cigarettes issued a halfhearted apology to parents whose teens became addicted to nicotine thanks to his company's products. But the truth is that just like tobacco, this was all part of the plan. Joining me to talk about this is Farron Cousins who just finished an incredible cover story for the national trial lawyer magazine. You've been following this a long time. Farron, first thing that comes to my mind, you know, as you know, we, our law firm handled the tobacco litigation. We wrote the first legislation about it that was used all over the country. So we know these cats pretty bad, pretty well, you know, it's a bad bunch of cats I guess. Give me your take on these people that are showing up with illnesses and couple of deaths already.

Yeah, just in the last week or so, we have seen I think a 193 different people across 22 different states. One of them in Illinois, a man is dead now and it's because of some kind of mysterious vaping related, they believe, disease. But the reason we start by saying that is because now we got to go back and talk about what's going on with vaping? And on the federal level from the federal government, the answer is really not much at all. There are few regulations, if any, on what can be in these vaping liquids. What goes in there, what people are consuming, how much nicotine it can have, and now after we've been warning for years about the lack of regulations, now we're starting to see the consequences and they have piled up in the last year.

Okay, yeah, let me back up. We started doing this story three or four years ago. As soon as it came on the market, we said, look, here are the problems, and then the problem is you have this cult. I don't know how to, it's like this cult.

It really is.

I call it, I call it, it's just so weird. We do a story. We say, look, look, God bless you if you want to vape, I don't care. But you need to know what the problems are. And the problems are, it's not just the nicotine, it's all the other chemicals that are in, that are included in that liquid that you're vaping.

Yeah.

It's the fact that you have no, your body has no magnitude response. In other words, if you're smoking a cigarette, you're, you know, you smoke too much, you get respiratory issues. You kinda, you, you, you'd get the light-headedness coming on. Not with vaping because it's coming in your system so bad. So here's the point, you know, I know doing this story, all the, you know, all the, all these people are going to come out, how dare you talk about vaping, vaping, because it is a cult. I swear it, it is a cult and that's, that's the way they've built this, isn't it? They built it with kids primarily.

It is, it's become its own little subculture here in the United States. They have vaping competitions. They have conventions and of course these conventions are sponsored by the vaping companies. You have people out there who swear that vaping has saved their, because it got them off regular cigarettes, but at the same time they're saying, well, we'll you guys attacking vapes, you're, you're doing Big Tobacco's job. But the truth is, a lot of these Big Tobacco companies, including Juul, they've bought shares of these companies. No, you, you vapors, you're doing Big Tobacco's job because they own these products as well.

Well, Big Tobacco owns them.

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