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Juul and other e-cig makers to Congress: FDA, not you, should regulate us

Antoine Blonde, president of Fontem US.

WASHINGTON — When the CEOs from Juul and four other leading e-cigarette makers came before a House investigative panel Wednesday, they had a united message for Congress: Don’t do anything, the Food and Drug Administration will sort this out.

All five of the executives, which also came from Reynolds American, Njoy, Fontem, and Logic, used the FDA to parry questions from lawmakers, insisting that the issue of youth vaping is being controlled. At some

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