{"podcast":{"title":"The Daily Article","slug":"the-daily-article-1140136","podcast_index_feed_id":1140136,"rss_url":"https://feeds.redcircle.com/47911d2b-5ba3-45e0-8979-8338d0bc4f7a","website_url":"https://redcircle.com/shows/the-daily-article","image_url":"https://media.redcircle.com/images/2024/5/2/15/52a2ee46-42ea-49e8-9852-2a6e5ee04690_3-4b69-a1f9-bee52ee44eed_thedailyarticle-final.jpg","author":"The Denison Forum","episode_count":2288,"summary":"The Daily Article Podcast offers news discerned differently every Monday through Friday morning. With biblical insight into the day’s latest news and current events, this narrated edition of Dr. Jim Denison’s email newsletter presents a nonpartisan perspective on what’s happening now and how Christians can respond biblically to the culture at large.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-30T22:19:37.673332+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-daily-article-1140136"},"episode":{"title":"Why “cigarettes are back in vogue” and why it matters","slug":"why-cigarettes-are-back-in-vogue-and-why-it-matters","published_at":"2026-07-16T11:47:23+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-daily-article-1140136/why-cigarettes-are-back-in-vogue-and-why-it-matters","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-daily-article-1140136","url":"https://denisonforum.org","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/audio3.redcircle.com/episodes/f3b28a5a-3842-4eef-8624-ee4fcf8cd747/stream.mp3","summary":"Cigarettes seem to be “creeping back to the aspirational center,” appearing again on magazine covers and across TikTok, Reels, and Instagram despite remaining the leading cause of preventable death and disease in the US. No one who smokes a cigarette thinks it will kill them today; the social appeal and addiction are a present-tense allure. The same is true of nearly all temptation: we want what we want now and don’t care if we will one day regret what we choose this day. Today, we consider what it means to admit we are powerless over ourselves and to let Jesus “out of the cage” so he can let us out of ours. About Denison Forum and The Daily Article Today's Daily Article was written by Dr. Jim Denison. You can read this article on our website . You may also receive it in your inbox by subscribing to our newsletter . NOTE: Denison Forum is a fully donor-funded nonprofit ministry. To support our calling, please donate today .","meta_description":"Cigarettes seem to be “creeping back to the aspirational center,” appearing again on magazine covers and across TikTok, Reels, and Instagram despite remai…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":402,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-daily-article-1140136/episodes/why-cigarettes-are-back-in-vogue-and-why-it-matters/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-daily-article-1140136/why-cigarettes-are-back-in-vogue-and-why-it-matters.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}