TITUSVILLE, Fla. — The Brevard Public Schools will join a class-action lawsuit against Juul, the popular vaping company.
- District says there have been 329 suspensions due to vaping, e-cigarettes
- CDC says increase of teens using tobacco products is due to vaping
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Brevard County Public Schools says it's seen a rise in e-cigarette use among teens.
The school district reports that during the 2017 through 2018 school year, vaping and e-cigarettes resulted in 329 suspensions.
The Winter Park-based Maher Law Firm alleges Juul Labs targeted teens with flavored tobacco, which caused a meteoric rise in teen vaping and drained schools of its resources to combat vaping.
Teen vaping use is a problem nationwide.
A Center For Disease Control reports last year about 4.9 million middle and high school students in the U.S. reported using tobacco products.
The CDC attributes the jump to vaping, adding the most popular e-cigarette product among teens is Juul.
The popular tobacco company says it has already begun steps to try to stop teen vaping by stopping production of its flavored-tobacco products.
The Brevard County Sheriff's Office also took steps to stop this. They trained one of their K-9s to sniff out e-cigarette use.