Juul, despite all its protestations and whitewashing in the media, is no better than old fashioned tobacco companies. It is selling addictive products that are killing people and are going to have long term health effects. They have caused a full-blown teen vaping epidemic, thanks to their marketing efforts. And finally, the FDA is waking up and admitting that these guys have been engaged in false and misleading advertising. In other words, just like the old tobacco guys. You very well know where I stand on this company and its peers.
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Nov 27: What I am reading today
Here are some of the stories that caught my attention today. Some of them are about technology, but not all of them. Updated all through the day, and shared via email newsletter in the evening. You like the links, sign-up for the email newsletter. The Cult of WeWork. PropertyWeek attends a WeWork event, comes back … Continue reading Nov 27: What I am reading today
Juul & its House of Smoke & Horrors
Back in the day, when Silicon Valley was about silicon and technology, our industry elders used to wisely caution that Silicon Valley doesn’t invest in tobacco, alcohol, porn, and guns. Not anymore it seems. Thanks to an influx of new money and an increasingly porous definition of what is a Silicon Valley company, what was taboo once, is now a hot deal. Continue reading “Juul & its House of Smoke & Horrors”