Business & Tech Juul Labs Settles Lawsuit From 33 States Over Marketing to Teens For $440M Formerly San Francisco-based e-cig maker Juul Labs has just settled one of a slew of lawsuits that it's still facing over the marketing of its products to young people, and over the potential harms of its products.
Business & Tech Feds Order Juul to Pull All Products Off the U.S. Market The formerly SF-based Juul has been ordered by the FDA to pull all of its products off U.S. shelves, as regulatory scrutiny of the vaping industry starts to kick in.
Arts & Entertainment Why Do So Many Fire Alarms Interrupt Movies at the AMC Kabuki? Vaping. Scan through the Yelp reviews at the AMC Kabuki cinema in Japantown and you're bound to find multiple complaints about fire alarms going off that interrupt everyone's moviegoing experience. One even happened on Monday night, clearing out the building during a rain shower.
SF News Juul Lays off 650 People in Attempt to Cut Costs by $1 Billion Juul just smoked 16 percent of its staff, mostly in the marketing department, as the San Francisco e-cig maker continues its spiral.
Business & Tech Vaping Illnesses Linked To THC Pod Additive Vitamin E Acetate For the first time since the outbreak of lung illnesses associated with e-cigarettes earlier this year, the Centers for Disease Control says it has identified a specific ingredient as a "very strong culprit": Vitamin E acetate.
Business & Tech Juul Knowingly Sold More Than a Million Contaminated Vape Pods, Fired Exec Claims A new lawsuit claims that former Juul CEO Kevin Burns dismissed concerns about contaminated and expired vaping pods, saying that half the company's customers are "drunk."
Business & Tech Under New CEO, Juul Drops Ballot Measure Campaign After Spending $11.6 Million On It Embattled e-cigarette maker Juul Labs is no longer going to be running ads in support of Prop C, the local ballot measure it bankrolled to overturn San Francisco's ban on vape products.
Business & Tech Juul CEO Steps Down; Layoffs Are In Store The CEO of Juul Labs, Kevin Burns, has stepped down and been replaced as the company continues to weather serious legal and political storms this year.
Business & Tech FDA Pens Strongly Worded Letter to Juul About Claims That Vaping Is Safer Than Cigarettes Swiftly on the heels of incendiary national news stories about the growing number of cases of serious vaping-related lung illnesses, the FDA issued a warning letter to SF-based Juul Labs saying the company has already violated federal regulations with its marketing claims.
Business & Tech CDC Issues Broad Warning About Vaping, and SF-Based Juul Is Not Having the Greatest Summer Some 200 people have come down with serious respiratory illnesses in recent months that are linked to street-purchased vape products. The CDC has now taken the unusual step of issuing a warning about vaping, despite there being no single product that's been identified as the culprit.
SF News Seven Hospitalized In Central Valley With Near-Fatal Lung Conditions From Street-Purchased Vape Pods Seven people in Kings County landed in intensive care, some with near-fatal respiratory distress, after vaping with cannabis oil pods purchased from un-licensed pop-up vendors.
Business & Tech Juul CEO Full-On Apologizes For Teen Vaping As Vape Ban Ballot Fight Heats Up The San Francisco-based e-cigarette giant might have just taken a hit in their attempt to undo the local vape ban, as their CEO goes deer-in-the-headlights under tough questioning from CNBC.
SF News E-Cigarettes Don't Help People Quit Smoking, According To UCSF Study Although e-cigarettes are often marketed as devices to help smokers quit, a new study finds they do little to help smokers kick the habit. The study, done by UCSF and published in The
SF News Under 21? Then Forget About Buying Smokes In SF, Says Supe Though an effort to raise California's smoking age to 21 stalled last month in the state Assembly, that won't stop a couple San Francisco lawmakers from trying to impose tighter regulations for young
SF News BART Officially Bans E-Cigarettes, Effective Immediately BART's Board of Directors officially banned the systemwide use of e-cigarettes, or "vaping," on Thursday, outlining the fines that would be issued to people violating the ban. The Board originally agreed to ban
