E-cigarette maker Juul Labs Inc., facing budget cuts and regulatory scrutiny, has shelved the development of a puff-counting feature that some company employees say had the potential to help users wean themselves off nicotine. Juul last year began piloting a usage monitor in the U.K. and Canada. The feature allowed consumers to track the number of puffs they took on a Juul vaporizer that transmitted the data through a Bluetooth connection to an Android-phone app. It also gave users the option to create a daily alert when they...

Source: Wall Street Journal September 04, 2020 09:33 UTC