The vaping scare and big tobacco
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2019
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Why health concerns over vaping is bad for cigarette companies. In the US hundreds of illnesses and even some deaths have been linked to vaping. That's bad news for a tobacco industry looking for a long-term replacement for cigarettes. Manuela Saragosa speaks to Gregory Conley, president of the American Vaping Association, Anna Gilmore, professor of public health at the University of Bath in the UK and a spokesperson for STOP - a global industry watchdog aimed at stopping tobacco organisations and products - and Richard Hill, head of vapour products at the tobacco company Imperial Brands.
(Photo: A young woman vaping, Credit: Getty Images)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC. I'm Manuela Saragossa. Coming up, the future of vaping. |
| 0:08.8 | Could it all go up in smoke? Across the United States, there are 10 to 14,000 independent |
| 0:14.8 | vape shops that act as many smoking cessation clinics. They are being threatened with extinction |
| 0:20.6 | in the next four weeks. |
| 0:21.9 | How a health scare about vaping is threatening a sector that was supposed to save big tobacco |
| 0:27.7 | companies. We're highly committed to the future of vaping. We have over 300 scientists working |
| 0:33.2 | on our scientific research programs. We will prove the benefit that our products can bring |
| 0:37.8 | to the American consumer. |
| 0:39.4 | That's all in Business Daily from the BBC. |
| 0:44.1 | At least 18 deaths and more than 1,000 cases of a mysterious lung illness have been linked |
| 0:50.9 | with vaping by health authorities in America. |
| 0:54.1 | It's led to the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, the CDC, |
| 0:58.6 | to advise people to stop using vaping products or e-cigarettes. |
| 1:03.0 | Some US states have moved to ban vaping, |
| 1:05.5 | and President Trump has said he wants a nationwide ban on flavoured vapes. |
| 1:10.7 | Vaping has become a very big business, as I understand it, like a giant business in a very |
| 1:15.4 | short period of time. But we can't allow people to get sick and we can't have our youth |
| 1:20.2 | be so affected. People are dying with vaping. The vaping industry is fighting back, as is |
| 1:26.6 | big tobacco. We'll hear from them in just a moment. |
| 1:29.4 | But first, many of those affected by this mysterious lung disease in the US are teenagers. |
| 1:35.1 | And in the main, these teenagers were vapors of products made by one particular company, |
| 1:39.8 | an American company called Jewel. It has about 75% of the market there. Jewel's products are very |
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