Federal prosecutors in California have opened up a criminal investigation into nicotine vaporizer product maker Juul, in the wake of an “epidemic” of vaping-related illness across the country.
As CNBC reports, authorities from the U.S. attorney’s office of the Northern District of California are in the early stages of the probe, according to sources familiar with the investigation. It’s not clear as of this writing what the investigators are specifically hoping to find.
Juul is, by far, the largest manufacturer of vaping products — electronic machines that heat an oil containing nicotine into a vapor, which the user then inhales in order to get their product. The company has been accused of marketing its products — however obliquely — to teenagers and children. For example, some of its products resemble everyday items — such as USB drives — that can be easily hidden or passed off as something other than what they are by a teenager who doesn’t want to get caught using it.
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