Jessica Wynn

Teen vaping is a mental health trap.

I know it really is a whiplash moment, but the first vape idea actually goes back almost 100 years to 1927 when an electric vaporizer was patented, but it never went to market.

So then in the 1960s, this guy Herbert Gilbert, I just like his name.

He patented.

Herbie Gilbert.

He patented a smokeless cigarette, but no one really cared.

It wasn't until 2003 that a Chinese pharmacist finally nailed it with a product called Ruyan.

He developed after his dad died of lung cancer.

I don't think so.

And vaping seems to have first made its way to the U.S.

around 2006.

But the big explosion came with Juul in 2015.

They had sleek design, splashy social media ads, and youth-friendly flavors that felt like they were designed by a candy chemist.

So the marketing was everything.

It was sold as a cool tech product that's safer than smoking.

I mean, it really did.

And they made it discreet.

So teachers thought Jules were USB sticks so kids could hide them in plain sight.

Parents saw their kids charging them and just assumed it was homework.

You know, and within months of Jules release, millions of teens were hooked.