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Today, Explained

Living in Zyn

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.4 • 9.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer accidentally started a culture war over Zyn. Semafor’s Dave Weigel explains. And Vox health reporter Keren Landman, MD, compares the nicotine pouch to cigarettes and vapes. This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Kim Eggleston, engineered by Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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There's a new threat to American children.

0:05.0

Uh, Sean, it's not that new.

0:09.0

Oh, uh, okay.

0:12.0

There is a threat to American children. It's a new tobacco product.

0:19.0

Well, the product has nicotine, which comes from tobacco leaf, but there's no tobacco leaf in this product.

0:25.0

Oh, okay.

0:28.0

There is a threat to American children. It's a new nicotine product. Not new. Maybe you've heard of it or even seen it behind

0:37.8

the counter at your local gas station. It's called Zine. It's called Zinn. Zinn. Zinn. And it's got politicians on edge.

0:48.0

Definitely some politicians.

0:51.0

We're going to investigate the culture war over these nicotine pouches on today explained.

0:55.0

Shame on you, Sean.

0:59.0

Support for the show comes from Vanta,aling with loads of spreadsheets juggling different tools

1:05.3

and having to do manual security checks can be a headache. It's tough to keep up with the

1:10.4

demands of today's compliance and security programs.

1:14.9

Vanta is a trust management system that wants to simplify things and bring all your trust

1:21.4

building efforts under one roof making growth smoother for your whole

1:26.5

org. You can get $1,000 off Vanta when you go to Vanta.com slash explained that's v an t a

1:34.7

dot com slash explained for one thousand dollars off vanta

1:40.3

Support for this show comes from Krakan.

1:43.0

Krypto is like the financial system, but different.

1:47.0

It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your credit score,

1:51.0

or your outrageous food delivery habits.

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