Remember Jewel?

Not that Jewel.

Teenagers, I can only U.S.P.

He says at least it's not a cigarette and you agree.

Yeah, that one.

Five years ago, everyone was jubing.

The company was worth more than Ford.

And then...

This e-cigarette was worth over $38 billion dollars and now it's practically nothing.

But somehow flavored vapes are more popular than ever.

So what happened? How did it come to pass that out of the efforts to rein that company in, we got instead

this insane Wild West, where it seemed like the vaping problem transformed into something much less manageable, arguably,

than it had been in the first place.

That's coming up on Today Explained.

Don't go rape your Jew, because it's full of nicotine.

Al-A-Lah,

a-a-lah, a-a-lah,

you're-

Support for the show comes from into the mix, a Ben and Jerry's podcast about joy and justice, produced with Fox Creative. Ainez Bordeaux is a self-described Hellraiser, and she became an activist after being caught up in the criminal

legal system, when she couldn't afford her bond. And without a trial, Inez was sent to a St. Louis

Detention Facility known as the workhouse, notorious for its poor living conditions.

Here how she and other advocates fought to shut it down and won on the first episode of this special three-part series out now.

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