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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge announced Wednesday a $438.5 million agreement between JUUL Labs and 34 states.

>> no many of them do not contain nicotine. these are technology products. yes, the nicotine is derived from tobacco but the gum, patch, and lozenge, they also contain nicotine derived from tobacco but because they are produced by pharmaceutical companies, we have made the decision as a nation not to label them as tobacco products, so we argue, why not create separate classifications for innovative products that are helping people quit? >> what about that senator leno? >> if the ecigarette industry would like to be determined by the food and drug administration to be a cessation device they sh...

Look on their packaging, we are not a cessation device nor have we been tested as such. >> sorry. go ahead. go ahead. >> i was going to say, that is big tobacco and big tobacco, reynolds they may sell ecigarettes but 95% of their margins still made off of traditional deadly combustible cigaretteles. they see a benefit to labeling these and shutting out their small business competitors from this market. >> and you'll find this interesting. in 2009 the industry sued the fda claiming they were a tobacco product, not a cessation device because if they were fda could have regulated them at that tim...