How did teen vaping become an epidemic?
Next Question with Katie Couric
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🗓️ 14 November 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
It unfolded right under our noses, in classrooms, on school buses, in locker rooms after sports practice—millions of kids got addicted to nicotine within the span of just a few years, thanks to the spread of vaping devices like Juul. This fall, the scope of the issue came into shocking focus as headline after headline documented the skyrocketing number of vaping-related illnesses. How exactly did we get here—and what can we do about it now? On this episode of Next Question, Katie talks to people on all sides of the issue, including a concerned high schooler who became an activist after watching his friends battle nicotine addictions; a mom who worries about her daughter’s Juul use now that she’s away at college; a journalist who started covering the trend long before the rest of the media caught on; and some of the country’s foremost addiction experts about the best ways to help teenage vapers—and keep kids away from e-cigarettes in the first place.
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| 0:00.0 | Next question with Katie Curric is a production of I Heart Radio and Katie Curric Media. |
| 0:04.6 | Hi everyone, I'm Katie Curric and welcome to Next Question where we try to understand the |
| 0:09.6 | complicated world we're living in and the crazy things that are happening. |
| 0:14.5 | By asking questions and by listening to people who really know what they're talking about. |
| 0:19.8 | At times it may lead to some pretty uncomfortable conversations, but stick with me everyone, let's |
| 0:25.8 | all learn together. |
| 0:31.0 | Whether you call it Jouling Vaping or using e-cigarettes, but the time we even realized it was |
| 0:37.5 | happening, it was already an epidemic. |
| 0:40.1 | We're going to begin with America's vaping crisis, the alarming update today from the CDC. |
| 0:45.3 | As vaping related illnesses and deaths continue to climb across the US. |
| 0:49.3 | The CDC is updating on the numbers of the lung illnesses associated with vaping. |
| 0:53.4 | They are now up to 1299 and 26 deaths across 21 states. |
| 0:58.4 | Now that's up from about 180 last week and 18 deaths, so this continues to grow. |
| 1:04.5 | And it continues to impact middle and high school kids across the country. |
| 1:09.6 | At a 16 years old I've been Jouling during class and I've jouled pretty much every moment |
| 1:18.6 | where I wasn't in class. |
| 1:20.9 | For those who have missed the onslaught of headlines, Joules, vapes or e-cigarettes are small |
| 1:26.6 | battery powered handheld devices used to inhale aerosol produced by heating a pod full |
| 1:32.6 | of liquid that often contains nicotine, flavorings and other chemicals. |
| 1:38.2 | Tobacco companies have been developing them since the mid-60s, but they didn't hit the |
| 1:42.7 | market until 2007 and didn't really become widely used until just a few years ago. |
| 1:49.3 | Initially they were marketed as a way to help adults quit smoking, but their hip advertising |
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