Altria has announced a new partnership with Japan Tobacco to bring a heat-not-burn cigarette to the U.S. market.

Altria reports its nearly $13 billion investment in troubled vaping company Juul is worth 95% less than it originally paid.

A federal court has put a temporary hold on the government's order for Juul to stop selling its electronic cigarettes.

Electronic cigarette giant Juul Labs Inc. will pay $40 million to North Carolina and take more action to prevent underage use and sales.

WASHINGTON, DC A Juul Labs executive who was fired earlier this year is alleging that the vaping company knowingly shipped 1 million tainted nicotine pods to customers. The suit claims that Breja was terminated after opposing company practices, including shipping the contaminated flavored pods and not listing expiration dates on Juul products. Breja says he learned in March that some batches of nicotine solution used in the company's mint pods had been contaminated. Breja claims that company management shipped roughly one million pods affected by the issue and failed to issue a recall or public announcement. Breja claims he was wrongfully terminated the week after raising his concerns about the contaminated mint pods.

A 16-year-old is opening about his harrowing experiencing with vaping. I thought that Juul was safer than smoking regular cigarettes, I was wrong," Krahn told WISC-TV. Krahn now has permanent lung damage and hes lucky to be alive. Krahn said while quitting smoking may sound difficult, going through this experience was far worse for him. More than a quarter of youths are actively vaping, Dr. Vivek Balasubramaniam, a pediatric pulmonologist at the hospital, said.

Scott Olson/Getty Images(CNN) - Juul co-founder Kevin Burns is out as CEO of the embattled maker of e-cigarettes, the company announced Wednesday. Crosthwaite, who had been chief growth officer at tobacco company Altria, a major investor in Juul. Juul and other makers of vaping products are facing a crisis due to a growing number of deaths and illnesses tied to their products. The company also said Wednesday it has a new marketing strategy: It will suspend all TV, print and digital ads and it will stop some of its lobbying efforts. The-CNN-Wire & 2019 Cable News Network, Inc., a Time Warner Company.