I know--I read the whole thing. Made me sick to my stomach.
Ahead the curve indeed...
What's the nefarious stuff juul's been up to? I checked out the link but I couldn't figure out what is being discussed here. Now I'm scared I'll be in a moral dilemma by continuing to buy more pods, which would be awful since I've been using the Juul about 80% of the time now and would hate to give it up!
Also for anyone experiencing leaking into the battery area, at least in my case I found all the leaking comes from condensation or spit-up juice that accumulates in the mouthpiece section and then seeps back down into the battery compartment by clinging to the inside surface of the mouthpiece, which touches the top of the battery.
I removed the black mouthpiece and trimmed the base so that it doesn't go below the little notches on the side, whenever I switch pods I just remove the stock mouthpiece at the same time as I remove the plastic covers and then put the modified ones on.
This way there is no contact between the mouthpiece and the battery, so any leakage from the mouthpiece area becomes obvious way before it gets a chance to get down to the battery compartment, and you can remove the mouthpiece easily to clean up any juice in there before it becomes an issue.
To avoid having to remove the stock mouthpiece every time I change a pod I just remove them from a whole pack at once, and replace them with the spare covers meant for the other side. This way changing the mouthpiece over is a lot easier than dealing with prying those tabs up every time.