Allegations that Altria assisted in promoting Juul to teenagers are the subject of a second test.

Brendan Pierson

( Reuters) The public school district of San Francisco is suing tobacco giant Altria Group Inc. and e-cigarette manufacturer Juul Labs Inc on Monday for their involvement in a teen vaping epidemic.

The San Francisco Unified School District wants to make Altria pay for the cost of addressing the issue because it claims that teachers and personnel” have had to go to extreme measures to respond to the ever-growing number of students using e-cigarettes on school cause.”

Altria, which owned a 35 % stake in Juul from 2018 to the beginning of this year, is dealing with thousands of similar incidents from people, local governments, and reports. U.S. District Judge William Orrick in San Francisco, who is overseeing the majority of the dispute, decided to use the situation from the school district as a predictor or try way.

One of those cases will appear before a judge for the next day during the trial scheduled for next week in Orrick. Although the specifics of the colony have not yet been made public, an earlier hearing in a condition brought by the state of Minnesota concluded on Monday as it was coming to an end.

Altria stated in a statement on Thursday that the majority of the claims made in this lawsuit were made decades before we made irrational financial investments in Juul. ” We will vigorously defend ourselves because we believe this situation is without virtue.”

The college neighborhood did not respond right away to a post demand.

In 2019, the college district filed lawsuits against Juul and Altria. It claimed that Altria had assisted Juul by allowing it to implement its sales force and including advertisements for the company in its Marlboro cigarette products. It had also been charged that Jul had purposefully appealed to under-18 consumers with great flavors and eye-catching social media campaigns.

Juul has since resolved the school district’s’s lawsuit and the majority of related claims, paying individuals and local government entities more than$ 1 billion over the course of 48 states and territories.

Last month, Altria declared that it had abandoned its investment in Juul in exchange for a portion of the company’s’s intellectual property. Its share of Juul was worth$ 250 million as of December, low from$ 12.8 billion in 2018.

Under pressure from officials, Juul in 2019 removed the majority of its e-cigarette flavors from the competition and stopped advertising. The items were recently banned by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in June, but it later lifted the ban and agreed to rethink it after the company filed an appeal.

Adolescent e-cigarette used in the United States remained at” concerning levels” and posed a serious public health risk, according to the head of the FDA’s’s center for tobacco products, who released this information last year. An estimated 2.55 million middle and high school students in the United States reported using e-cigarettes during a four-month period earlier in 2022, according to national safety authorities.

(Reporting Brendan Pierson in New York, Editing by Alexia Garamfalvi and David Gregorio)

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