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Presumably the brush with Stage 4 lung cancer left a bad taste in John's mouth and inspired him to try and cheat fate another way

The firm wants to buy a 40% stake in Sampoerna and the rest of its shares in the market for 48.7bn rupiahs ($5.2m)

Marketing and advertising restrictions: You have to comply with tobacco marketing regulations at the state and federal levels

This has been going on for decades

But Juul, which styles itself as a Silicon Valley startup, has always had a messianic philosophy around growth, arguing that persuading smokers to switch to vaping outweighs the potential dangers of encouraging new nicotine addicts