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Jordt reports that since the initial planning of the work received support from the United States National Institutes of Health (U54DA036151, R01DA060884) and that in the past 36 months, received consulting fees on matters of tobacco product regulation from the State of California, Department of Justice (payments made to him), participated on a Data Safety Monitoring Board or Advisory Board [United States Food and Drug Administration (USFDA), Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee (TPSAC)] and had a leadership or fiduciary role in the American Thoracic Society (ATS) (Vice-Chair, Tobacco Action Committee)

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Privately, one lawyer for the company explained why in a letter later recovered in a court filing: "We have never raised any objection to the use of our labels feeling, for your more or less private information, that it is not too bad an advertisement." The FTC called the packaging mimicry "an indirect form of advertising aimed at children." As the Truth Initiative's Koval explained, the tobacco industry had more than a passing interest in getting kids interested in its products

Of the high schoolers who do use e-cigarettes, habitual nicotine consumption is lower compared with their cigarette-smoking peers, who are almost twice as likely to be daily users, according to the most recent data from a long-term University of Michigan survey on adolescent drug and alcohol use

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