E-cigarette maker accused of targeting youth

Eonsmoke, a national retailer of e-cigarettes, targeted young people for sales of its vaping products and failed for years to verify the ages of online buyers, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey alleged in a new lawsuit. The lawsuit accuses the New Jersey-based company of violating state consumer protection laws and directly targeting young people for sales of its vaping products—including electronic nicotine devices, e-liquids, and nicotine pods—through marketing and advertising that was intended to appeal to young people. The complaint also accuses Eonsmoke of failing to verify the age of online purchasers of its products and failing to ensure that shipments of these products were received by a people over the age of 21, the state's legal age for buying smoking products. “Eonsmoke took a page out of the Big Tobacco playbook by peddling nicotine to young people on social media,” Healey said. “Our investigations into JUUL and other e-cigarette retailers continue as we...