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Fight Club: Vapes vs. Cigarettes
Fight Club: Vapes vs. Cigarettes
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Nellie Bowles says those who vape are like ‘little gerbils licking their water dispensers.’ Including Michael Moynihan.
By Nellie Bowles and Michael Moynihan
06.23.24 — Culture and Ideas
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Fight Club: Vapes vs. Cigarettes

Perhaps you were affected by tobacco giant Philip Morris’s sudden suspension of online sales of their popular Zyn pouches after D.C.’s attorney general issued a subpoena citing a 2022 ban on the sale of flavored tobacco. Maybe you’re still clutching your Juul, or opting to go old school and take part in the cigarette-aissance, sucking down Marlboro reds.

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Nellie Bowles
Nellie Bowles is a reporter for The Free Press and its head of strategy. She was previously a reporter at The New York Times, where she won the Gerald Loeb Award for investigative journalism and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. She started her career at her hometown paper, the San Francisco Chronicle.
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