Puff Bar CEOs on the Company Behind the Popular E-Cigarette Brand: “There Was a Lot of Shadowiness Before”

Puff Bar is the most popular e-cigarette brand among teenagers. But now the company is facing multiple lawsuits and questions about how its flavored vaping products may not be subject to FDA regulations. CBS MORNINGS co-host Tony Dokoupil talked to Nick Minas and Patrick Beltran, co-CEOs of Puff Bar, for their first television interview.

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Excerpts:

- Patrick Beltran: “We’re aware that there is a lot of mystery and there was a lot of shadowiness before. Us being here right now, talking with you guys is our first step in kind of really, like, building the trust with our consumers.”

- Nick Minas on the founding of Puff Bar: “The original cofounding partners decided that they didn’t want to continue the brand in the direction that we saw most fit. And that's where we kind of came into control.”

- Patrick Beltran on who the prior partners of Puff Bar were: “No, we can’t say.”

- Patrick Beltran on counterfeit products: “Everything that the counterfeits are doing right now is undermining what we’re actually doing, from an internal company perspective, we have new devices, a completely different, you know, verification system. All that would undermine all of that back-dooring.”

- Patrick Beltran on underage use: “I think the governments need to do a better job on going after retailers and the distribution channels that are actually pushing these products out there.”

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