The Promise and Peril of Vaping, Part 2: The Story of Juul

The Daily

The New York Times

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4.4 • 102.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

When Juul was created, the company’s founders told federal regulators that its product would save lives. Those regulators were eager to believe them. Today, part two in our series on the promise and the peril of vaping. Guest: Sheila Kaplan, an investigative reporter for The New York Times covering the intersection of money, medicine and politics. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Background reading: Here’s the first episode in this two-part series, describing how one man’s mysterious death changed our understanding of vaping and its consequences.The federal government has repeatedly delayed or weakened efforts to regulate e-cigarettes, allowing a new generation to become addicted to nicotine.

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0:25.6	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Bavaro.
0:32.6	This is Daily.
0:35.6	Today, from the moment that Jewel was created, it told federal regulators that its product
0:47.7	would save lives.
0:50.0	Those regulators were eager to believe it.
0:53.8	Two, in our series on the promise and the peril of VP.
1:00.8	It's Wednesday, October 30th.
1:08.8	She let, where does the story of Jewel begin?
1:12.4	The story starts in around 2007 on the beautiful Palm Tree-lined campus of Stanford University
1:20.6	where two design students, James Moncees and Adam Bowen, are trying to figure out how
1:26.9	to stop smoking.
1:28.5	Sheila Kaplan has been investigating Jewel for the times.
1:32.1	The problem is that products that are available for smokers to quit.
1:37.4	The nicotine patch or gum often don't work.
1:40.7	A lot of smokers don't like them.
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