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What Next - Wait, Is JUUL Banned or Not?

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News Commentary, Politics, News

4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Two years ago, the FDA announced it was banning JUUL nicotine vapes from sale in the U.S.—and then quickly announced it was holding off on the ban to allow for review. How did regulating ecigarettes end up playing catch-up?


Guest: Jamie Ducharme, health correspondent at Time, author of Big Vape: The Incendiary Rise of Juul. 


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Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme and Rob Gunther.



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0:00.0

Pets bring so much joy from those happy greetings at the door to the warm

0:05.2

cuddles on the sofa so give a little love back with dental life from Purina a

0:10.6

range of delicious chews made for dogs and tasty snacks for cats that help clean and support your pets teeth and gums.

0:18.0

Essential for their overall well-being and a happy healthy life. They give you plenty of smiles so

0:25.2

look after theirs with dental life. Pick up dental life in the pet food aisle. Jimmy, how would you describe the FDA's relationship with Jewel, the e-Segorate Company.

0:43.0

In a word, contentious is what I would say.

0:47.0

Jamie Ducharme is the author of Big Vape,

0:51.0

the incendiary rise of Jewel. And we called her up because last week the FDA

0:56.5

basically wrote her book a whole new chapter. That's because two years after banning

1:01.7

jewel, the trendy e-cigarettes that caught on with teens a few years back.

1:06.3

The FDA said, scratch that.

1:09.3

The ban is lifted.

1:11.7

This decision came as a surprise to me, but Jamie says she's gotten used to a certain amount of flip-flopping from the FDA.

1:18.0

I think it's worth noting too that for Jules' first few years years in existence the FDA took absolutely no

1:24.4

approach at all towards them like they were not regulated whatsoever by the

1:28.2

FDA for their first few years on the market so truly we have been all over the map. I feel like I'm in a maze here like

1:39.1

welcome welcome to the world of Jewel, it's always like this.

1:44.0

America's largest e-cigarette maker is under fire this morning.

1:52.0

If you're like me, you first became aware of jewels and jeweling because of TV news.

1:57.0

And with flavors like Fruit Medley and Coolment, it's no surprise teens are getting caught jeweling in school bathrooms, libraries even under

2:05.0

their classroom desks.

2:07.0

Eventually it was not just the FDA cracking down on jewel.

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