On this week's episode of Wild Card, actor Ted Danson says it's possible to embrace your regrets.
I wish I hadn't become a liar, you know, early in life.
But even your wounds you kind of have fondness for if you've lived through it and made amends and all of that stuff.
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Where does this whole story begin?
So our story begins in November of 2019 at the White House, where President Donald Trump has become concerned about youth vaping.
This is journalist Leon Nafak.
For the past year or so, hes been looking into the rise of e cigarettes over the last couple of decades.
And that story centers on one device in the Juul.
The Juul is a sleek little usb type device that became essentially the first mainstream vape.
But at the time of this White House meeting back in 2019, the Juul was seen by a lot of people as this massive threat to public health.
The numbers around teen use of Juul in particular, are skyrocketing.
Everyone thought the war on youth smoking was over.
Those numbers have been going down and down and down.
But here comes this new technology, this new device, the Juul that kids seem to love.
Trump decides to invite a whole bunch of stakeholders, people from parent groups, people from industry, to have basically a apprentice style gathering to hash it out.
Ok, so this is like the reality tv approach to public health policy.
Yeah.