{"id":21373,"date":"2020-05-06T10:01:17","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T14:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/?p=21373"},"modified":"2020-05-06T10:06:25","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T14:06:25","slug":"vaping-news-south-korea-juul-leaving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/archives\/21373","title":{"rendered":"VAPING NEWS: SOUTH KOREA [JUUL Leaving]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-offset-key=\"fi1bi-0-0\">&#8220;U.S.-based electronic cigarette maker Juul Labs Inc. said Wednesday that it will pull out of South Korea one year after its launch here following controversies over health concerns. &#8220;We have reached the decision to suspend operations in South Korea after the company&#8217;s performance in the country was not up to its expectations,&#8221; the San Francisco-based startup said in a press release.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>BILL TARLING &#8212;<\/strong> <em>In South Korea, JUUL devices were released at just a 1% nic strength, compared to the 5.9% strength marketed in North America. As with in the EU (which is capped at 2%), JUUL devices weren&#8217;t satisfying enough for smokers to switch, and sales kept declining. Without using an exceedingly high level of nicotine, the devices couldn&#8217;t retain enough popularity or addictiveness.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>ARTICLE LINK:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.yna.co.kr\/view\/AEN20200506010800320?section=national\/national\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">E-cigarette maker Juul Labs to exit S. Korea 1 yr after entry<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/dot.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Reddit\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"VAPING%20NEWS%3A%20SOUTH%20KOREA%20%5BJUUL%20Leaving%5D\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;U.S.-based electronic cigarette maker Juul Labs Inc. said Wednesday that it will pull out of South Korea one year after its launch here following controversies&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vaping-news","wpcat-147-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21373"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21375,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21373\/revisions\/21375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}