Introducing The Vaping Fix

Dear Reality, You're Effed!

YEA MEDIA GROUP

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2021

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Two young Silicon Valley entrepreneurs set out to rid the world of smoking with an incredible new product. The device stands to disrupt the tobacco industry and make them rich, until it falls into the wrong hands and lives are ruined. From classrooms to hospitals, boardrooms to the Oval Office, what can be done to protect teenagers and is it too late? From Laura Beil, the reporter behind Dr Death and Bad Batch, comes The Vaping Fix, the inside story of the rise of Juul and the making of a crisis.
Listen to THE VAPING FIX at: http://wondery.fm/VF_DearDiary

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0:00.0	Hey listeners, Wandry has a new podcast called The Vaping Fix.
0:03.7	If you or anyone you know has ever used an e-cigarette, you're going to want to hear this.
0:08.4	The story starts in 2018 with college sophomore John Lucker Barreki, he was studying in his dorm room when suddenly he struggled to breathe.
0:18.0	His lungs felt like they were on fire and with his last few breaths he asked his roommate to call 911.
0:25.2	As he was rushed to the hospital and ER doctors tried to help him, they demanded he tell them
0:30.0	what drugs he was using. In a days, John Lockyer promised he didn't use any drugs, just a jewel, but he didn't realize
0:38.6	inside that jewel was an addictive drug. The vaping fix hosted by Laura Beale and the team behind
0:45.1	Dr Death and Bad Batch is the shocking story of how the e-cigarette company
0:49.9	Jewel set out to help lifetime smokers quit but instead managed to hook a
0:55.0	brand new generation of young people. I'm about to play you a preview of the
0:59.4	vaping fix. While you're listening, follow the vaping fix on Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts,
1:05.0	or you can listen early and ad free by starting your free trial of Wandery Plus in the
1:10.2	Wandery Act. It was a rainy day in Orangeburg, New York in 2018.
1:20.0	John Luca Barekia was hanging out in his college dorm room between classes.
1:25.0	An Italian flag hung on the wall above his bed as a homage to his Italian family back in Connecticut.
1:31.0	North Haven is all Italians,
1:34.4	so most of them are actually from the same area in Italy.
1:39.1	So everyone always says when they see me around town,
1:42.4	who am I not related to?
1:43.9	John Luca was a sophomore nursing major.
1:46.4	His courses and exams could be intense,
1:49.2	but today he felt unusually tired.
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