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6 new podcasts to listen to this week

1. Backfired: The Vaping Wars

Streaming platform: All streaming platforms

 Genre: Health

Before journalists Leon Neyfakh and Arielle Pardes decided to host Audible’s new nine-part podcast Backfired: The Vaping Wars, they spent months reporting on vaping.

Something that has quickly gone from being a niche hobby to a million-dollar industry in the space of just a decade – but whilst they were trying to do this, Neyfakh was trying to quit vaping himself and was massively failing.

A few years ago there was only one major vaping product people were using, and it was called Juul. Still, as the hosts continued to investigate further they found that there are now thousands of vape brands on the market in flavours including,

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