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Vaping researcher, advocate, and vape shop owner Spike Babaian and journalist Helen Redmond join AVM’s Shaping Vaping Twitter Space to discuss what it’s like to be a vape shop owner when the FDA tries to destroy you business and what communities lose when local vape shops close their doors. Plus, this week’s Media Lapdogs.

Links: 

• The War on Vaping Closes a Shop in East Harlem

• New York City Council passes bill banning flavored vaping products

• Media Lapdog: Why won’t the AP’s Mike Stobbe Shoot Straight on EVALI?

Intro music: Last Summer by Ikson - https://www.iksonmusic.com