Wondery: The Vaping Fix
A Date With Dateline
Kimberly and Katie - ADWDL
4.6 • 5.6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2021
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Two young Silicon Valley entrepreneurs set out to rid the world of smoking with an incredible new product. The device stands to disrupt the tobacco industry and make them rich, until it falls into the wrong hands and lives are ruined. From classrooms to hospitals, boardrooms to the Oval Office, what can be done to protect teenagers and is it too late? From Laura Beil, the reporter behind Dr. Death and Bad Batch, comes The Vaping Fix, the inside story of the rise of Juul and the making of a crisis.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody, this is Kim really and this is Katie. You're listening to a promo actually for a new |
| 0:05.2 | one-dress show called the vaping fix. It is the story of a silent killer. Smoking and how one |
| 0:12.9 | Silicon Valley tech startups plan to curb it might have done more harm than good. In 2017, |
| 0:20.8 | plumes of vape clouds surrounded schools across America, teen smoking rates skyrocketed. As more and |
| 0:27.8 | more children became addicted to e-cigarettes, parents, politicians and health experts looked for |
| 0:32.8 | answers. All eyes turned to a company in the heart of this new epidemic, Jewel. Jewel was |
| 0:39.4 | founded to create an iPod-like device that could provide a safer alternative to smoking, |
| 0:44.7 | but their pitch-perfect marketing campaign, high levels of nicotine and social media influencer |
| 0:50.3 | endorsements attracted users of all ages. Within a year, teenagers were getting addicted. |
| 0:56.8 | Was this an accident? Or did ambition blind them to the unintended consequences of what they |
| 1:02.4 | created putting millions at risk? Say I'm going with the second one there. Number two. |
| 1:07.9 | From Laura Beale, the host of Dr. Death and Bad Batch. Those were good. Oh yeah. |
| 1:14.8 | Wondrie's new podcast mini-series The Vaping Fix is the story of how Jewel managed to hook a new |
| 1:21.1 | generation on vaping. We're about to play you a preview of The Vaping Fix. While you're listening, |
| 1:27.3 | follow The Vaping Fix on Amazon Music Apple Podcasts or you can listen early and add free |
| 1:34.0 | by starting your free trial of Wondrie Plus in the Wondrie app. I'm excited. |
| 1:44.8 | It was a rainy day in Orangeburg, New York in 2018. John Luca Berecchio was hanging out |
| 1:50.9 | in his college dorm room between classes. An Italian flag hung on the wall above his bed as a |
| 1:56.9 | homage to his Italian family back in Connecticut. North Haven is all Italians, so most of them are |
| 2:04.4 | actually from the same area in Italy. So everyone always says when they see me around town, who |
| 2:10.9 | it might not related to. John Luca was a sophomore nursing major. His courses and exams could be |
| 2:16.6 | intense, but today he felt unusually tired. And just not really myself, like I didn't really have |
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