San Antonio litigator MIkal Watts, who’s made a name for himself nationwide in mass tort cases, found a vaping device in his son’s truck, and he said it turned his focus to suing JUUL Labs Inc.

“He said, ‘Dad, everyone is doing it. It’s safer than smoking,’” Watts recalled about confronting his son about using JUUL. He said the incident prompted him to research how prevalent vaping had become in middle and high schools, the addictiveness of electronic cigarettes and the health problems they could cause.

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