Big Vape: The Incendiary Rise of Juul

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There are multiple interviews with people associated with Juul, including co-founder Adam. We hear from an enthusiastic recruiter for Juul, an anonymous engineer, and investors — I enjoyed that they kept the same pool of interviewees small. There are swanky behind-the-scenes shots of the interviews, showing all the expensive-looking equipment. This is an interesting take — mirroring the efforts it took behind the scenes to get this company up and running. Adaptations in Hollywood are nothing new, but they've been at the center of many of this year's biggest pop-culture conversations. Any intellectual property seems up for reimagining, from books to toys to video games. There are many reasons behind their appeal to studios, among them that they tend to come with built-in audiences—but as I learned firsthand over the past few years, they can also give projects new depth and complexity. Stream It Or Skip It: 'Catch Me If You Claus' on Hallmark, A Christmas Movie That's Part Rom-Com and Part Crime Caper

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Our Take: Perhaps it’s because Bowen and Monsees refused to be interviewed, or it could just be their personalities, but Cutler doesn’t go out of his way to portray the founders of Juul as your typical Silicon Valley techbros. Sure, they still adhere to the “move fast and break things” approach their fellow ’00s-era tech entrepreneurs followed, but it did seem like they had a sincere desire to help people stop smoking. In fact, they took pains to avoid getting investment from any of the Big Tobacco companies during the first phases of Ploom/Juul’s existence, and they used the companies’ own research into developing a heated tobacco nicotine delivery system as the basis for their invention. Live': Kelly Ripa Asks Mark Consuelos If He Is Taking Her And The Audience On A "Strip Club Crawl" To Honor His Favorite Places In New York Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Master Gardener’ on Hulu, Another Subtly Sinister Drama From Master Storyteller Paul Schrader This was true when I began covering vaping in 2018 and it’s still the case now. Some researchers believe vaping can help adults stop smoking cigarettes and transition to a less-dangerous form of nicotine. Meanwhile, other studies find that vaping is not an effective way to stop smoking and may come with significant health risks of its own, including increased chances of developing lung and heart diseases. The big caveat to the whole debate is that e-cigarettes only became widely used and studied within the past couple decades, which is not all that long in the world of health research. More health risks—or benefits—could come to light as vapers are studied for years to come.

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