According to a vaping lawsuit, JUUL health hazards allegedly include strokes and other serious consequences.

The lawsuit claims that plaintiff Maxwell B. suffered a massive stroke after becoming addicted to JUUL products during high school. The stroke reportedly caused serious, long term side effects.

Maxwell reportedly starting using JUUL e-cigarettes in the summer of 2015, right before he entered his last year in high school. According to his lawsuit, JUUL marketing made the e-cigarette device seem “fun, healthy, and cool”. By the time he started using the device, JUUL products had already “become ubiquitous among his high school friends,” his JUUL lawsuit claims.

Within weeks of beginning to use JUUL products, Maxwell was allegedly addicted to nicotine. In his suit, Maxwell recounts sneaking to the restroom during family dinner to use his vape pen and indulging in other behaviors caused by his nicotine addiction.

By 2017, Maxwell was reportedly going through two JUUL cartridges each day. With each JUUL cartridge containing the amount of nicotine found in an entire pack of cigarettes, Maxwell was reportedly consuming a huge amount of the addictive chemical each day.

In July 2017, Maxwell’s addiction caught up with him. He claims that he suffered a massive hemorrhagic stroke, a life threatening condition caused by a broken blood vessel that bleeds into the brain. Maxwell reportedly had to undergo three brain surgeries and spent over 100 days in the hospital as a result of his stroke. Even after recovery, Maxwell has reportedly been left with “catastrophic and permanent injuries”, including left side paralysis, speech impairment, and the loss of about half of his vision in both eyes.

Maxwell claims that his stroke was a direct result of his JUUL usage. He seeks compensation from JUUL Labs for allegedly failing to warn him of the JUUL health hazards associated with their products. Even politicians have started investigating JUUL health risks.

E-cigarette Safety Concerns

Recently, the safety of e-cigarettes has been receiving increased media attention and consumer concern. More and more studies are being released that link e-cigarettes with adverse side effects such as seizures and even strokes.

In February 2019, researchers presented at the American Stroke Association’s International Stroke Conference 2019 with findings that e-cigarette usage was associated with an increased risk of strokes and other heart risks.

The researchers surveyed 400,000 patients, including 66,795 who regularly used e-cigarettes. Analysis of all of the patients showed that individuals who vape were at a higher risk of stroke, heart attack, and coronary heart disease when compared with non-users. The risk for stroke reportedly increased by 71 percent with e-cigarette use while the risks for heart attack and coronary heart disease increased by 59 and 40 percent, respectively.

JUUL Labs has also come under fire recently for their previous youth-targeted advertisements and their failure to communicate JUUL health hazards to consumers. Although the company is reportedly focusing on adults in their new marketing and intends to prevent youth usage, the company still faces lawsuits from consumers like Maxwell who claim that this new shift in marketing is too little, too late.

“We are hoping that JUUL takes responsibility for its conduct in targeting and luring young people to use its very dangerous products, and that they are held accountable for fair and reasonable compensation to this young man,” Maxwell’s attorney told Forbes.

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