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Big vape : the incendiary rise of Juul / Jamie Ducharme.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Edition: First editionDescription: xiv, 318 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781250777539
  • 1250777534
Subject(s):
Contents:
Smoke without fire (2004-2005) -- An industry is born (2007-2011) -- Reinforcements (2011-2013) -- Buzzed (2014) -- The cool kid (November 2014-May 2015) -- Vaporized (Summer 2015) -- Demoted (July-December 2015) -- Ignition (August 2016-May 2017) -- The divorce (May-November 2017) -- The boss (November 2017-March 2018) -- An education (January-July 2018) -- Political animals (April-August 2018) -- Growing pains (July-August 2018) -- An epidemic (September-December 2018) -- Serious fortunes (December 2018-March 2019) -- The apology campaign (March-July 2019) -- On trial (July 2019) -- Plague and panic (July-September 2019) -- Illicit products (June-September 2019) -- Wake me up when September ends (September 2019) -- The takeover (September 2019-March 2020) -- Epilogue.
Summary: "A work of narrative nonfiction chronicling the rise of Juul, the most prominent e-cigarette company, and the birth of a new addiction"-- Provided by publisher.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 338.7679 D826 Checked out 05/07/2024 33111010548796
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"Fast-paced and impressively researched, this detailed account sings."
-- Publishers Weekly , starred review

A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Book of the Summer (2021)

A propulsive, eye-opening work of reporting, chronicling the rise of Juul and the birth of a new addiction

It began with a smoke break. James Monsees and Adam Bowen were two ambitious graduate students at Stanford, and in between puffs after class they dreamed of a way to quit smoking. Their solution became the Juul, a sleek, modern device that could vaporize nicotine into a conveniently potent dosage. The company they built around that device, Juul Labs, would go on to become a $38 billion dollar company and draw blame for addicting a whole new generation of underage tobacco users.

Time magazine reporter Jamie Ducharme follows Monsees and Bowen as they create Juul and, in the process, go from public health visionaries and Silicon Valley wunderkinds to two of the most controversial businessmen in the country.

With rigorous reporting and clear-eyed prose that reads like a nonfiction thriller, Big Vape uses the dramatic rise of Juul to tell a larger story of big business, Big Tobacco, and the high cost of a product that was too good to be true.

Includes bibliographical references.

Smoke without fire (2004-2005) -- An industry is born (2007-2011) -- Reinforcements (2011-2013) -- Buzzed (2014) -- The cool kid (November 2014-May 2015) -- Vaporized (Summer 2015) -- Demoted (July-December 2015) -- Ignition (August 2016-May 2017) -- The divorce (May-November 2017) -- The boss (November 2017-March 2018) -- An education (January-July 2018) -- Political animals (April-August 2018) -- Growing pains (July-August 2018) -- An epidemic (September-December 2018) -- Serious fortunes (December 2018-March 2019) -- The apology campaign (March-July 2019) -- On trial (July 2019) -- Plague and panic (July-September 2019) -- Illicit products (June-September 2019) -- Wake me up when September ends (September 2019) -- The takeover (September 2019-March 2020) -- Epilogue.

"A work of narrative nonfiction chronicling the rise of Juul, the most prominent e-cigarette company, and the birth of a new addiction"-- Provided by publisher.

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