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    TELEVISION

    Jul 23, 2023 4 minutes

    TUESDAY AUGUST 1

    PATRICK GOWER ON VAPING

    Smoke signals

    Screening: Three, 7.30pm

    Streaming: ThreeNow

    Paddy Gower of the weekly turns back into Patrick Gower of the documentaries with one on vaping, a subject that Sarah Catherall tackled in depth in the cover story “The vaping epidemic” in May. As always, Gower makes it personal – “My mother died from smoking-related lung cancer. Could vaping save the lives of Kiwis who smoke?” he asks in the intro, and makes himself a reluctant guinea pig. This time he’s both undergoing MRI scans after vaping and putting on another hazchem suit to go behind the scenes of a vape juice manufacturing plant in Levin. There are many interviews with experts, including local health officials expressing regret at the unintended consequences – giving anothergeneration the chance of acquiring a nicotine addiction – of allowing vaping into New Zealand to help cigarette smokers. The strangest interview of all is Davon, a Californian vape influencer who demonstrates his array of smoke tricks, which will probably be soon seen behind the bike sheds at a school near you. You wouldn’t normally expect a Gower show to include such puffery, but there you go.

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