Helped by Altria, Juul crossed $1 million in quarterly lobbying payouts for the 1st time
Vaping device maker Juul spent $1.01 million in federal lobbying during the most recent quarter. That's up from $750,000 and $940,000 in the previous two quarters, per the company's lobbying disclosures.Juul Labs, the vaping device maker under pressure from regulators over youth nicotine addiction, beefed up its Washington, D.C. lobbying efforts last quarter. The San Francisco startup spent $1.
began to turn their attention towards e-cigarettes. Vaping first appeared as a specific lobbying issue for Altria in its disclosure for the first three months of 2019. The company used an undisclosed portion of its $2.38 million second quarter expenses to lobby about vaping legislation and FDA regulations against e-cigarettes, according to athat was also filed Monday.
McConnell’s bill would update the 1992 Synar amendment, which put the burden on states to pass tobacco laws. The amendment caused many states to pass “bad laws” that failed to effectively control tobacco sales, said University of California, San Francisco medicine professor Stanton Glantz, who is a prominent tobacco researcher and Juul critic. The provision could cause a similar cascade of unenforceable Tobacco 21 state laws, he said.
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