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Vaping Lawsuits

With more and more people turning to vaping as a way to get their nicotine fix, more and more, there is an unfortunate need for vaping lawsuits to protect people who have been injured by dangerous e-cigarettes and other vaping devices. Deaths, illnesses and injuries have been tied to e-cigarettes. If you have been injured or become ill as a result of using an e-cigarette vaping device, it may be a good time to ask a personal injury lawyer that is licensed to protect victims of vaping injuries whether or not your situation warrants a personal injury claim to help you seek compensation for expenses related to vaping.

Vaping

Vaping is a contemporary term for the act of inhaling and exhaling the aerosol that is produced in an e-cigarette or other device that produces an aerosol for the purpose of inhaling nicotine or other substances. The aerosol that is produced by vaping devices is often referred to as vapor. Hence, when someone is using one of these vapor producing devices, it is referred to as vaping.

One of the many reasons there are so many vaping lawsuits is that many vaping products were advertised as being a safer way to “smoke” compared to traditional cigarettes and other smoking products.

Vaping devices include e-cigarettes, vape pens, and advanced personal vaporizers, to name just a few of the devices that are available to consumers. While different devices have different designs, most vaping devices consist of a mouthpiece, a battery for its heating mechanism, and a cartridge containing nicotine or other substances in a liquid form, often referred to as  e-liquid or e-juice, that becomes the aerosol or vapor that is in- and exhaled.

The growing body of evidence that indicates that vaping products may be dangerous in more ways than one, is opening the paths for vaping injury victims to seek compensation for their injuries and illnesses through vaping lawsuits.

Lawsuits

75% of the e-cigarette market is dominated by the JUUL company. The majority of lawsuits for vaping injury victims have been focused on JUUL but Marlboro’s maker Atria Group Inc. (that has a minor stake in JUUL) has also been named as a defendant, and it is anticipated that other companies will soon be blamed for vaping injuries as well.

While lawsuits have been filed for people of all ages, a large portion of vaping lawsuits involve minors and young adults. Individual lawsuits as well as class actions have been pursued.

One of the primary legal claims of many of these lawsuits focuses on fraudulent marketing. Plaintiffs are alleging that companies that sell e-cigarettes and other vaping devices and products made claims that vaping was a safer alternative to traditional smoking. As well, they made claims that vaping could be a safe way to try to quit traditional smoking. New findings indicate that this is far from the truth.

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If you are one of the many people who have been vaping in the DC area, it may be in your best interest to discuss your situation with a Vaping lawyer in DC, MD or VA. More and more people who have been vaping are now getting sick and injured from lung damage and in some cases, vaping has been linked to deaths that are the result of this lung damage. Even if you do not have symptoms of lung damage, if you have been vaping you may want to ask a good personal injury lawyer in DC or its surrounding areas for legal advice.

Vaping Companies Misled Consumers

Vaping technology has been around since as early as the 1920s but it was not until the beginning of the 2000s that it was readily marketed in the United States. Soon after companies began introducing their vaping and e-cigarette devices, many traditional smokers switched over to them. As well, many people who had not regularly smoked or used tobacco products, especially teens and children, started vaping.

If you are one of these people or a parent of a minor who has been vaping, you may be entitled to compensation that a vaping lawyer from DC, MD, or VA may be able to help you seek.

One reason that many traditional smokers switched over to vaping is because the vaping industry made claims that vaping was a safe way to “smoke,” and some even touted it as a safe way to quit smoking. These claims were not only unfounded but in light of the many incidents of lung damage that have already been reported, they have proven to be absolutely wrong.

If you are one of the many consumers who was misled by a vaping products company or the vaping industry at large, discussing your situation with a DC, MD or VA vaping lawyer now, may save you time and money later.

It may benefit you to let your physician know that you have been vaping to see if they have any recommendations for you in terms of your current lung and overall health.

Candy Flavors and Bright Colors

One of the many criticisms of nefarious seeming vaping products’ companies, is that they appear to have been targeting young people with their candy flavors and bright colored packaging. Many decades ago the tobacco industry was under fire for trying to market their dangerous products to minors and are now strictly regulated to not do this. The vaping companies have allegedly been using similar marketing tactics that are now illegal for the tobacco and traditional cigarette industries to use.

If you are a parent of a minor who was seduced by the flavors and packaging of vapes without being warned of the dangers of using them, a DC, MD, or VA based personal injury lawyer may be able to help you with the vaping problem(s) in your family.

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Vaping History

Even though the concept of vaping has been around since as early as the 1920s, it did not gain great popularity in the United States until the mid 2000s. And even though the United States has made great strides since the 1960s to warn the public about the dangers of smoking cigarettes and has made the tobacco and cigarette industry one of the most highly regulated and controlled industries, the dangerous products that the vape and e-cigarette industry provided to consumers have only recently come under scrutiny.

As more and more people are suffering from injuries and becoming ill as a result of using vapes and e-cigarettes, the need for a good Washington, DC vaping injury lawyer is rapidly on the rise.

Vaping companies such as JUUL, SMOK Nord, Uwell Caliburn, Aspire AVP,  Kanger, GeekVape, Eleaf, Aspire, and many, many more, seem to have knowingly misled consumers into thinking that vaping is a safe alternative to smoking. As well, many innocent smokers were told that vaping is a safe way to quit smoking.

Companies that made false and illegal advertisements about their vape and e-cigarette products, should be held accountable for their wrongdoings.

Personal Injury and Vaping

A key way to hold these nefarious companies accountable for their misleading and unfounded safety claims, is for the victim of a vaping injury to enlist the help of a personal injury lawyer in the Washington, DC area to file a personal injury claim against the company that provided them with dangerous vape or e-cigarette products. Although money cannot undo the damage vaping has done to a person’s lungs, it can help to make sure the vaping injury victim and their family do not suffer financial hardship on top of the physical and emotional pain that the vaping injury has caused.

Targeting Minors

If your minor child is addicted to vaping, unfortunately, they are just one of the many children and teens that vaping companies targeted their marketing towards, it may be in your and your child’s best interest to discuss your situation with a reputable Washington, DC vaping injury lawyer as soon as possible.

The volumes of adults that are now suffering from being misled by vaping companies is devastating but perhaps even more tragic is the huge numbers of minors that are now addicted to vaping. Cases of children with serious lung damage from vaping are on the rise. Officials have even speculated that even recent deaths may be linked to vaping.

For a highly rated vaping injury lawyer in Washington, DC, contact Cohen & Cohen, for a free case evaluation any time of the day or night, any day of the year.