FDA Seizes Juul E-cigarette Marketing Documents
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The Food and Drug Administration in the US has seized more than a thousand pages of documents from e-cigarette company Juul Labs - related to the company's sales and marketing practices. The agency says there's an epidemic of youngsters using e-cigarettes - which is creating a new generation of nicotine addicts.The Verge's science and tech reporter Rachel Becker has been following the story. The US midterm elections are just weeks away and President Trump is speaking at a rally in Mississippi. For many first-time candidates, the election will signal not only the end of the campaign, but the end of a crash course in how to run for office. And how to ask for money, as Kimberly Adams of Marketplace reports. INDIA ILFS. Former foreign secretary Boris Johnson attacked UK government plans for a Brexit deal. Our reporter at the Conservative party conference in Birmingham has been gauging reaction from the business community to Mr Johnson's intervention. In the light of Nike backing NFL star Colin Kaepernick over his kneeling protest during the national anthem, we look at brand activism. And the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Theo Leggett is at the Paris Motor Show.
All this and more discussed with our 2 guests throughout the show: Joanne Griffith, Assistant Managing Editor, Digital for Marketplace, in Los Angeles. And Jyoti Malhotra - National & Strategic Affairs Editor at The Print, in Delhi.
(Photo: A smoker puffing on a Juul e-cigarette. Credit: Getty Images.)
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