Blumenthal Statement on FDA Decision to Remove JUUL From the U.S. Market

[WASHINGTON, D.C.] – Today, U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Chair of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Data Security, released the following statement after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ordered Juul Labs Inc. to take its e-cigarettes off the U.S. market:

“The FDA is rightly removing Juul’s addictive e-cigarettes from store shelves, as I have urged for years. Juul is reprehensibly responsible for hooking a new generation of Americans on nicotine with manipulative marketing and flavored products, taking a page from Big Tobacco’s playbook and putting profits over people. This is an essential step in the fight against Big Tobacco to ensure Americans, young and old, can break free from nicotine’s harmful hold.”

Blumenthal has long fought to protect the public from Big Tobacco’s harms, including introducing the bicameral Preventing Opportunities for Teen E-Cigarette and Tobacco Addiction (PROTECT) Act to curb youth e-cigarette use and address the tobacco epidemic harming millions of teens across the country and holding a hearing on Juul’s deceptive and manipulative marketing. At this August 2021 hearing, Blumenthal reiterated his call for FDA action to deny Juul access to the market.

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