By the Associated Press:
Four more school districts in Kansas are suing a leading e-cigarette maker as they struggle to stop students from vaping.
School boards for the 27,000-student Shawnee Mission district, the 22,000-student Blue Valley and the DeSoto school district, which has about 7,100 students, voted Monday to sue Juul. Last month, the board for the nearly 30,000-student Olathe district decided to sue.
The lawsuits seek unspecified compensation for the costs of trying to keep vaping out of schools.
Blue Valley school board President Cindy Bowling said Tuesday that staff is “spending significant amounts of time monitoring and policing vaping in school.” She described it as a “drain of resources and a major distraction.”
Juul has said it doesn’t market to youth and its products are meant to be an alternative to smoking.
