Science Does nicotine prevent coronavirus? Researchers in France (of course) plan trial Xeni Jardin

Business U-Haul decides to stop hiring nicotine users Xeni Jardin

Business Juul gave marketing presentations to schoolchildren in the guise of "mental health/addiction" seminars Cory Doctorow

drugs Study: first drug more likely to be cannabis than nicotine or alcohol Seamus Bellamy

Drugs Without the Hot Air: the best book I've ever read on drugs and drug policy, in an expanded new edition Cory Doctorow

politics New York sues Juul Xeni Jardin

lawsuits Lawsuit says Juul shipped a million contaminated pods Mark Frauenfelder

Business Nobody knows how to quit vaping Cory Doctorow

health Walmart stops selling e-cigarettes as vaping death count grows Xeni Jardin

drugs Johns Hopkins Medicine launches major center for psychedelic drug research David Pescovitz

san francisco San Francisco breaks its e-cigarette habit Seamus Bellamy

dare to keep kids off drugs San Francisco considers banning the sale and manufacture of nicotine e-cigarettes Jason Weisberger

Business Juul's strategy for success: target children, steadily ramp up nicotine levels Cory Doctorow

Business Carcinogens, monopolies, influence-peddling: Juul is a microcosm with everything wrong in the world Cory Doctorow

late stage capitalism Thanks to vaping, decades of anti-smoking progress in teens has been wiped out Cory Doctorow

poisons and toxins A video roundup of the world's most lethal substances Mark Frauenfelder

tabloids Exposed! Tucker Carlson’s secret addiction, Meghan Markle’s secret “sister,” and Royal Family secrets, in this week’s fact-challenged tabloids Peter Sheridan

videos For the next year, TV, newspapers, and the web will run massive ads from tobacco companies admitting that their products kill people, that they were engineered to be addictive, and that they covered this up Cory Doctorow

sponsored Toothstars has a galaxy of tooth whitening information to share Boing Boing

Technology What does it mean to be human in an age of machines? Institute for the Future