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by esseeayen 1802 days ago
Wait, as someone overseas who hasn’t seen any of the Juul advertising what are some of the examples of them “blatantly advertising to children”? Is it just the fact that they are making flavoured nicotine products or has it been more nefarious than that. As an adult I kind of like some of the flavoured tobacco products from smoking shisha (argile, hookah etc) and they have had flavours forever and not been in the spotlight to marketing to children?
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This article seems to give a fair discussion of the issue, with some examples:

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-09-24/hiltzik-ju...

Edit to add this article, too:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kathleenchaykowski/2018/11/16/t...

>they have had flavours forever and not been in the spotlight to marketing to children?

I think my mum would disagree