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Backfired: The Vaping Wars

By: Leon Neyfakh
Narrated by: Leon Neyfakh, Arielle Pardes
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When two Stanford graduate students set out to create a cigarette that wouldn’t kill them, they didn’t foresee what lay in store. Did their invention provide the answer to one of the world’s most pressing public health problems—smoking—or did it introduce a whole new generation to nicotine, spreading an intractable addiction?

Hosts Leon Neyfakh and Arielle Pardes unravel the polarizing story of Juul Labs and dive into the illegal vape market that sprouted up in its wake.

Our senior producer was Sam Lee. Our editor was Kim Gittleson. Our producers were Dustin Desoto and Katherine Sullivan. Our assistant producer was Arlene Arevalo. Sound design by Andrew Parsons. Archival research and fact-checking by Francis Carr. Theme song and score composed by Emma Munger. Audio mix by Erica Huang. Backfired was co-created for Prologue Projects by Kim Gittleson.

©2024 Leon Neyfakh (P)2024 Audible Originals, LLC

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