A school-based education program sponsored by electronic cigarette maker Juul Labs was abandoned almost as soon as it was proposed, a company spokesperson confirmed.

The vaping prevention education program was widely criticized by anti-tobacco advocates and several public officials, [...]. Healy, whose office is investigating internet sales of Juul [...] suggesting that previous industry-sponsored school-based anti-tobacco programs were at best ineffective, and at worst increased teens' propensity to start smoking.