by PAUL BASS New Haven Independent
The state’s attorney general joined New Haven officials at Hillhouse High School to proclaim the death of cool — at least for a certain e‑cigarette manufacturer.
The attorney general, William Tong, held a press conference at Hillhouse’s Floyd Athletic Center to announce the state has received the first $1.5 million of an eventual $16 million expected over the next six to 10 years from a court settlement reached with the Juul Labs vaping products company.
That’s Connecticut’s share from a $438.5 million settlement Tong helped lead on behalf of a 34-state consortium over the role the once-high-flying, now struggling company’s youth-oriented marketing practices played in leading millions of kids to develop addictive nicotine vaping habits. Under the settlement, Connecticut and other states will devote the money to nicotine “cessation, prevention, and mitigation” programs.
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