Big Vape: The Incendiary Rise of Juul
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- Synopsis
- A thrilling look at the rise and fall of Juul and the danger of e-cigarettes.The story begins with two students who want to quit smoking and culminates with 48 dead and nearly 2,300 injured and counting. The real question is: how?__________Some say vaping is a public health revolution that could help save millions of lives worldwide. But there is one big problem: teenagers. Instead of catering to adult smokers, the e-cigarette industry appears to overwhelmingly target non-smoking youth.Big Vape uses the dramatic rise and fall of Juul to tell a larger story of big business, public health and youth culture. It shows how scientists can present opposing facts, and even the soundest studies can be means to questionable ends; how lack of regulation can be deadly, and the wrong regulations can be just as bad; how marketing communications can reverse steady national trends, and how an epidemic can break out in just a puff of smoke. This is a story of ambition and greed: two starry-eyed grad students set out to change the world and end up at the helm of a $38 billion empire. This is a story of boom and bust: Silicon Valley darlings pitched as world changers who end up on a nationwide apology tour as their business falls apart at the seams.This is a story media manipulation: young people adopting an unlikely product and making it a cultural phenomenon.This is a story of our time. __________(P) 2021 Macmillan Audio
- Copyright:
- 2021
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781529345810
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781529345780
- Publisher:
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Date of Addition:
- 08/11/22
- Copyrighted By:
- Jamie Ducharme
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Narrated By:
- Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Business and Finance
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.