Hawaii’s attorney general has filed a lawsuit accusing Juul Labs Inc and the e-cigarette manufacturer’s largest shareholder, Marlboro-maker Altria Group, of fueling a youth vaping crisis through deceptive marketing.

Hawaii Attorney General Clare Connors in a lawsuit filed on Monday in the First Circuit Court in Honolulu said the companies targeted teenagers through their marketing of Juul e-cigarettes while falsely understating their nicotine content and addictiveness.

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Source: Reuters

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