The Promise and Peril of Vaping, Part 1: A Mystery in Nebraska

The Daily

The New York Times

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🗓️ 28 October 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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When John Steffen died, his family had little doubt that a lifetime of cigarette smoking was to blame. Then, the Nebraska Department of Health got an unusual tip. Today, we begin a two-part series on the promise and the peril of vaping. Guest: Julie Bosman, a national correspondent for The New York Times, spoke with Kathleen Fimple and her daughter, Dulcia Steffen, in Omaha, Nebraska. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Background reading: John Steffen trusted vaping could help him quit smoking. Instead, he became one of vaping’s first victims in Nebraska. Vaping can cause lung damage resembling toxic chemical burns, according to researchers at the Mayo Clinic.

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0:00.0	From The New York Times, I'm Michael Barrow. This is The Daily.
0:03.8	Today, when John Stephan died, his family had little doubt that a lifetime of cigarette
0:17.4	smoking was to blame. Then, the Nebraska Department of Health got an unusual tip. Part
0:25.9	one of a two-part series on the promise and the peril of vaping. It's Monday, October
0:35.2	28.
0:36.2	You will see the animals on the wall. So there's a rainbow trout and an animal open a deer
0:49.2	above the fireplace. Yeah.
0:51.9	Julie, tell me about this trip you took to Nebraska.
0:54.8	So a couple of weeks ago, I went to Omaha, Nebraska.
0:58.3	Julie Bosman is a national reporter at the Times.
1:01.8	And I went to the home of Kathleen Fimple, where she lives with her dog, Bo, a little
1:09.0	terrier. And Kathleen showed me around her house.
1:12.5	That room's a mess, but we could pull something.
1:15.1	And I sat down with Kathleen and her daughter, Delcia and her granddaughter. And they showed
1:21.7	me something that Delcia had made after the death of her father, John Stephan.
1:26.6	My daughter made this.
1:28.6	It was a glass box.
1:30.6	Well, that's what we use for the funeral.
1:32.6	And inside were mementos that represented his life.
1:36.2	We played guitar. So we got guitar picks and Grandma's feather bed was the song we all
1:41.7	liked to sing together.
1:43.3	The John was a very active outdoorsman. There was a turkey feather from one of his hunting
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