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The Vaping Fix

Wondery

Juul, Documentary, Business, Vaping, Exhibit C, Children, Scandal, Smoking, Society & Culture, True Crime

4 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

James Monsees and Adam Bowen, two Stanford graduate students, have an idea - one they believe could save millions of lives and rid the world of smoking. The goal is personal: they’re both smokers. But even good intentions can have unintended consequences?

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0:00.0	Wondery Plus subscribers can binge all six episodes of The Vaping Fix.
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0:07.0	It was a rainy day in Orangeburg, New York in 2018.
0:19.0	John Luca Berecchio was hanging out in his college dorm room between classes.
0:24.0	An Italian flag hung on the wall above his bed as an homage to his Italian family
0:29.0	back in Connecticut.
0:30.0	North Haven is all Italians so most of them are actually from the same area in Italy.
0:38.0	So everyone always says when they see me around town who it might not related to.
0:43.0	John Luca was a sophomore nursing major.
0:45.0	His courses and exams could be intense but today he felt unusually tired.
0:51.0	And just not really myself like I didn't really have much energy in me to do anything that day.
0:56.0	And it felt almost like I had a cold too.
0:58.0	There was a heaviness in his lungs.
1:00.0	It felt like almost like there was an elephant sitting on my chest.
1:04.0	And I was just trying to take deep breaths, extremely deep breaths to see if that would kind of clear it up.
1:10.0	It didn't work.
1:11.0	Maybe I just needed you on and maybe that'll help or try coughing it out or something like that.
1:17.0	But none of it gave him relief.
1:19.0	So he turned to the thing that had been his source of comfort, his electronic cigarette.
1:24.0	Without thinking, he took a puff.
1:27.0	And then that's when it felt like I felt like I just couldn't breathe anymore.
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