{"id":4161,"date":"2018-03-16T20:34:56","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T20:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=4161"},"modified":"2018-03-16T20:40:30","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T20:40:30","slug":"what-the-hell-is-a-juul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=4161","title":{"rendered":"What the hell is a “Juul”?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This is a “Juul”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Never heard of these things until a couple of weeks ago. I’m still not 100 percent sure what the big deal is about them.<\/p>\n

It sounds to be something like Vaal, from the original Star Trek and\u00a0 reminds of an old SNL skit about some feminine product where the whole point of the skit was “what is it?”<\/p>\n

A Juul is apparently a new kind of e-cigarette that looks a hell of a lot like a flash drive for a laptop. And, apparently, in fact, they can be charged by plugging them into a laptop.<\/p>\n

Anyway, the New York Times thought it was a big enough deal to do a huge article about them.<\/p>\n

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Not Vaal, Juul!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

From the Times story<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Resembling a flash drive, Juul conveys a sense of industry \u2014 you\u2019re Juuling into your MacBook Air while you are cramming for your test on Theodore Dreiser and thinking about trigonometry \u2014 and it is so easy to conceal that, as one mother explained to me, she failed to notice that her daughter was vaping in the back seat of the car as she was driving.<\/em><\/p>\n

It’s basically just the latest “hip” e-cig. And this is one of the issues I have with e-cigs … is they keep trying to pass themselves off as “hip” and the “latest thing.” And kids love stuff that’s “hip” and the “latest thing.”<\/p>\n

From the Times story<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The company\u2019s position that Juul is intended strictly for \u201cadult\u201d smokers as its website repeatedly indicates, is belied by the menu of flavors in which the nicotine pods are offered. These include Mango, Cool Mint, Fruit Medley and Creme Brulee. As Anthony Charuvastra<\/a>, a child psychiatrist and assistant professor at New York University\u2019s Medical Center put it, \u201cWho over 25 is looking for creme brulee as part of a smoking experience?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Like all modern tech companies that attract tens of millions of dollars in venture capital funding, Juul believes it is doing something globally valuable, acting as \u201cpart of the solution to end combustible smoking,\u2019\u2019 as its marketing material proclaims. A \u201cMission & Values\u201d statement on the company\u2019s website declares that no minor should be in possession of Juul and argues that the company is working to combat underage use. In August, it instituted an age-verification system on its e-commerce site<\/a> to try and prevent anyone under 21 from buying Juul products.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cJames and Adam recognized a groundbreaking opportunity to apply industrial design to the smoking industry, which had not materially evolved in over one hundred years,\u201d the Juul website also declares, indicating how little Silicon Valley can distinguish between what needs to be disrupted and what simply needs to go away.<\/em><\/p>\n

When asked about Juul\u2019s use by teenagers, the company said in a statement, \u201cWe condemn the use of our product by minors. We are fully committed to dramatically reducing the incidence of young people using Juul.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Yeah, the “we here at Juul are very concerned about teen vaping” sounds pretty lame and vapid (They gave a similar statement to Women’s Health<\/a>), especially when it sounds EXACTLY like the Tobacco Industry excuses for their products being blatantly marketed to teens for decades. So, colour me seriously unimpressed with the owners of Juul and their milquetoast response about teens using their product.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Never heard of these things until a couple of weeks ago. I’m still not 100 percent sure what the big deal is about them. It sounds to be something like Vaal, from the original Star Trek and\u00a0 reminds of an old SNL skit about some feminine product where the whole point of the skit was … Continue reading What the hell is a “Juul”?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21,22,560,803],"tags":[591,592,804],"class_list":["post-4161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cigarettes","category-e-cigs","category-teen-e-cig-use","category-teen-vaping","tag-e-cigarettes","tag-e-cigs","tag-teen-vaping"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/18big-alt-master768.jpg?fit=768%2C512&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hpEa-157","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4185,"url":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=4185","url_meta":{"origin":4161,"position":0},"title":"FDA thinking about ban on vaping flavours; Juuls on the radar","author":"Pepe Lepew","date":"September 7, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Oooh, I will DEFINITELY be keeping my eye on this one. 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