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There's been a huge surge of high schoolers using e-cigarettes or vaping.

There's breaking news in America's vaping crisis late today a death was reported in Georgia.

Vaping Company, Jewel in some hot water after the Food and Drug Administration said the company illegally marketed its nicotine vaping devices as safe

Jewel, the maker of e-cigarettes, just might be the most hated company in America right now.

But before it became so big and before it became so

controversial, Jules co-founders talked about a lofty mission to get the world's

one billion smokers to stop smoking.

I would tell people, you know,

anyone who would listen, 50 years from now

nobody's going to be smoking cigarettes.

They're going to look back and think,

oh my God, I can't believe people used to do that.

One scientist Chen Wei Singh was there in the startup's early years and she helped invent the technology

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