Illinois attorney general investigating makers of vaping products

Posted on August 31, 2019

By Dave Dahl

SPRINGFIELD – Illinois attorney general Kwame Raoul is investigating the makers of vaping products. Originally, e-cigarettes were supposed to be a safe alternative to tobacco.

“And that compounds the problem,” Raoul tells WJBC News. “If it’s marketed as a safe alternative and it in fact has an impact that is as harmful, if not more harmful, than what it’s promoted as an alternative to, that’s problematic with regards to consumer protection.”

Vaping is connected to numerous hospitalizations and one death, that being in Illinois.

Raoul’s office is researching the products and their effects and will decide what to do next.

Raoul says candy flavors and other ways to target-market minors make Juul look bad, and he says the company’s efforts to say, we don’t want people under 21 using this, are too little too late.

Dave Dahl can be reached at [email protected].

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