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by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 1461 days ago
Not OP but...

> This makes zero sense and I am not sure how your reply is coherent.

> * I cannot reiterate enough just how incompetent Juul was in 2017.

Pretty sure that's how they think the reply is coherent. My understanding so far is that someone in some decision-making capacity at Juul decided that it would be a good idea for company representatives to go to schools with the intent to tell students that vaping is bad mm'kay (but it's totally not as bad as cigarettes). This was done specifically because they did not want to sell to youths.

I've worked around other people long enough for that to be appropriately stupid. Yes, it makes zero sense, and that is, in part, why it's so believable.

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And when they told their ad agency that their target market for a campaign was "13-17 year olds"?
When did this happen? Got a link?