“ If the science has demonstrated it is doing great damage then I don ’ t care what it does to a small businessperson who ’ s selling this stuff .”
have tried and failed to bring this sort of case before and we believe they will fail again . We look forward to defending this important law in court .”
Becerra also led California ’ s 2019 lawsuit against Juul Labs , which alleged that the vape giant was marketing its products to underage users .
He said at the time : “ We ’ ve worked too hard , committed our hardearned money for too long combatting harmful tobacco use to stand idly by as we now lose Californians to vaping and nicotine addiction .”
The health secretary also led a coalition of 43 attorneys general calling for video streaming services such as Netflix to restrict ‘ tobacco ’ imagery in streamed content .
Anti-tobacco and vaping organisations , such as Truth Initiative and the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids , believe that exposure to smoking and vaping imagery increase the likelihood of viewers , especially teens , taking up the habit .
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