i'm here to support the reasonable vaping regulations. i'm here to oppose the vaping ban. like many filipinos, born in my generation, i was a cigarette smoker before i was 21 years old. i successfully gave up smoking in 2001, 24 years later. a few years ago, a friend invited me to her son's vape shop. i wanted to find out why vaping was an alternative source for adults trying to quit smoking. how many of you in this room have tried vaping at least once? to my surprise, the feel and taste of vaping was very mild. that was my first and last experience in vaping. i am aware, that just like combustible cigarettes, vaping comes with health risks. i believe this proposed ordinance to ban the sale of vape products in physical retail stores and on-line to san francisco while continuing to allow the sale of combustible cigarettes is not well thought out. if you go through with this ordinance, to me, it means that number one, you will be opening pandora's box, and pretty soon, you would want to ban vaping as well as tobacco cigarettes. you will encourage adults in making alternative

are vaping in their classrooms. teenage is the perfect age for nicotine addiction, and jool and the industry know this. please protect the public health with this policy and san francisco kids. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> my name is nick, and i work on the community impact team for the american heart association. simply put, my mission is to help youth live longer, healthier lives, make better decisions. the time i spend with youth in this city, really, anywhere, it shows me how impressionable they are. i know how impressionable i was. i'm sure you can remember how impressionable you were in elementary school and high school. -- in relation to this, i find it interesting how there is never really a push in the marketing of currently f.d.a. approved smoking cessation devices toward youth. we don't see those widely used in schools. kids aren't hitting up a patch in the bathroom, they're hitting up a jool and their favorite vaping devices. it's well known that the drug nicotine combined with a whole host

a vaping epidemic. last year alone, 80% of high school students vaping and today because of devices like juul and the accompanying kid-friendly flavors, four million children nationwide are vaping. juul and other e-cigarette companies claim it is for adults to quit cigarettes. here's the starting point. there is no clinical trial proving that juul devices help add utilities quit cigarettes. despite the marketing claims and the paid testimonials, there is no credible medical evidence of juul's most fundamental marketing claim. none. further, more than 20% of children under the age of 18 are using e-cigarettes compared with less than 3% of adults. juul knows exactly where the money can be found and not from add utilities looking to quit smoking, it's kids. the epidemic is an old battle. i won't go into the details, but on friday, november 13, 1959, one week before my 15th birthday i stood at my fat's hospital died who died from lung cancer, two packs of camels a day. he was 53 years old. we have had some

between 2017 and 2018, use vaping -- 20% of high school students now vape. the lingering question is why and what was the role of juul, the country's dominant maker of e-cigarettes with almost 80% of the e-cigarettes market share and the dramatic rise of vaping. the panel assembled today will todays address these where and with part two tomorrow monseesl founder james will testify. today we will look at why it makes it irresistible to kids. is a preeminent tobacco advertising scholar in the country and will help us answer that question. we hope to understand how juul whileed to youth simultaneously avoiding detection by adults. we will hear about juul's average including how juul entered schools under the guise of anti-vaping conversations. then went -- the juul presenters told kids that their vaping tools were safe. we will hear from the parents of kids who sat through one such presentation. were soted mothers angry that they founded a nationwide advocacy group. although the schools that juul entered, it incited the righteous anger that only comes from pare

a vaping epidemic. last year alone, 80% of high school students vaping and today because of devices like juul and the accompanying kid-friendly flavors, four million children nationwide are vaping. juul and other e-cigarette companies claim it is for adults to quit cigarettes. here's the starting point. there is no clinical trial proving that juul devices help add utilities quit cigarettes. despite the marketing claims and the paid testimonials, there is no credible medical evidence of juul's most fundamental marketing claim. none. further, more than 20% of children under the age of 18 are using e-cigarettes compared with less than 3% of adults. juul knows exactly where the money can be found and not from add utilities looking to quit smoking, it's kids. the epidemic is an old battle. i won't go into the details, but on friday, november 13, 1959, one week before my 15th birthday i stood at my fat's hospital died who died from lung cancer, two packs of camels a day. he was 53 years old. we have had some

to combat underage vaping and conducting our business responsibly. over the past several years. , our company has taken an escalating series of military actions all aimed at combating problem.uth vaping we banned online sales to anyone under the age of 21. in april of 2018, we announced our support of tobacco 21 legislation. at that time, we had already started with social media platforms to delete inappropriate posts and listings featuring our products. in november of 2018, we announced our plan to step up ,ur efforts to advocate for t21 stop selling nontobacco and flavored products to retail stores, and enhanced our websites third-party image verification process, to strengthen our compliance program, and shut done our u.s. based facebook and histogram and committed to developing technology-based solutions. these methods will take time to develop an impact. we are pleased to note that in the last six months, a dozen loss. have passed t-21 as a result, more than half of the population resides in states that have taken this step. juul has worked to r

that may have been caused by vaping.he wisconsin teens all suffered from extreme cough, shortness of breath, and fatigue. some had also lost weight from vomits and diarrhea. officials sate's unclear what exactly the teenagers inhaled. >> maybe they're doing off-brand juul. maybe they were making their own juul. >> vaping among teens has skyrocketed over the last few years. >>> and "the new york times" says the woodstock 50 festival is saved with just weeked to spare. producers for the festival have secured a last-minute deal to put on the show in columbia, maryland. it comes after months of legal wrangle and battles over the initial venue in upstate new york. the show will be held from august 15th to the 18th, almost 50 years after the original woodstock, but it's unclear who will be performing. >>> still to come, if you plan on flying over the holidays this winter, you may be paying more for that plane ticket. why southwestern warns its prices could be taking off. i'm more likely to have a fatal heart attack or stroke.

. >>> blaming vape. doctors sounding the alarm after saying e-cigarettes are to blame for lung damage in several teen patients. >> we don't know the short term or long-term effects. >> that warning coming as a maker of e-cigarettes is grilled on capitol hill. >> you're nothing but a marketer of a poison and your target is young people. >>> plus, the dramatic rescue. two young girls rescued from a hot car. how were they locked inside? >>> runaway tire rolling down a highway slam thoog a jeep. that jeep's driver talking about the terrifying ordeal. >>> the growing debate getting scary serious, to change halloween's date. ♪ we did the mash >>> good morning, everyone. thanks for joining us as we're wrapping up another busy week in washington. the latest efforts to sound the alarm on foreign election meddling. >> mitch mcconnell blocked two bills aimed at boosting security. the current fbi and the senate intelligence committee had warnings. >> reporter: good morning. one of the conclusions of the mueller inve

i don't vape anymore but it helped get me here. says there is much we don't know about these products but you could have said the same thing about wind farms or cell phones but no, she means vaping. so vaping is the health hazard in her city. injecting heroin on the streets near a school. i guess when you can't address your city's big problems, you look to vaping as a distraction from failure. and what's is a monumental failure dystopian open sewer super rich signal from bo and homeless relieve themselves below. it's clear you can accept any kind of ms. rid if you are well enough away from it. so the rise in banning things will continue unless, of course, the homeless do it or antifa does it or undocumented aliens do it then breaking laws is simply the right thing to do because anything else would be hateful. so welcome to s.f. please don't puff but by all means poop. we have a little sound on tape from the president. i had to work in the word poop. about the cities decaying conditions thanks to the libs. >> we can knot ruin our ci

the dangers of vaping, how it landed eight teens in the hospital with severe lung damage. steve hartman with folks offering free advice for all it's worth. >> this is the "cbs evening news" with norah o'donnell. >> o'donnell: good evening. this is our western edition. we begin with breaking news from overseas. a st. louis man held since the spring by the assad regime in war-torn syria has been released and reunited with his parents. his name is sam goodwin. and his freedom tonight comes as the result of top-secret, international negotiations involving a member of the lebanese military. don dahler leads us off tonight with new information, including what brought goodwin to syria. >> reporter: sam goodwin had been held in syria for two months, but evidently, few people outside his family knew that until he was released in damascus. sources tell cbs news he was then taken to lebanon. today, the family released this statement: ibrahim is the head of lebanese internal security. >> i'd see him around. always had a smile on his face. >> reporter: tom burns knew goodwin at niagra

with an estimated 3.6 million teens and preteens vaping last year, health officials and parents worry it's a trend moving in the wrong direction. this week vaping was front and center in congress for a hearing focused on the popular ecigarette brand juul. >> you don't ask for permission. you ask for forgiveness. you're nothing but a marketer of a poison and your target has been young people. >> reporter: citing internal documents, members of a house panel accused the company of marketing directly to children a juul executive acknowledged past missteps but says their focus is on getting adults to quit cigarettes. >> we need to work together to make sure no underage consumers use this product it is terrible for our business. it is terrible for public health it is terrible for our reputation >> reporter: bad for business, and doctors say bad for kids' health joe fryer, nbc news. >>> and in tonight's your money your life, we follow up on the world's most expensive drug with a $2 million pricetag. it assured us earlier this year that insurance companies would cover it as kristen dahlgren r

>>for my classmates who are ready vaping it was a sigh of relief because now they're able to vape without any concern. >>we asked you about this and they said presentations the students were made as part of a shortlived educational and youth prevention program which was ended in september 2018. the company says its purpose which was to educate youth on the dangers of nicotine addiction was clearly misconstrued. the company also said it has taken actions to prevent youth vaping like scaling back its social media accounts, platforms that critics say have particular appeal among teenagers but according to one expert he testified that was too little too late you would have thought that hashtag posting would decline. but in fact it surged surged in part because the hashtag itself gained a kind of social currency even after the brand had largely exited social media, jack lew and others say this video should scare anyone normalizing the use of these devices even in a young toddler, we've seen lots of outrageous postings and hashtag drool. >>it's remarkable. the lack of boundaries, many posters h

we started 8:00 with opponents of vaping. vaping do not associate -- it is like kleenex or band-aids and there been articles written about this. i know because my son and i have commented. ng,s think they are juuli they do not think they are vaping. they do not think they're using e-cigarettes. they just think they are juuling. announcer: and at 950 -- at 9:50, the ceo of juul labs. >> we do not want underage consumers using the product. we have to make sure no underage consumer uses the product. it is terrible for our reputation. none of this is good stuff. announcer: watch tonight on c-span, online at

i recently just quit smoking cigarettes using vaping.rter: the food and drug administration is reviewing the product's safety, but this week kaunched an ad campaign telling children to beware. >> did you know if you vape you're more likely to start smoking cigarettes? >> reporter: according to the f.d.a., nearly four million teenagers do use e-cigarettes,s but today juul executives said the products were never intended for underaged use and the company supports banning sales for those unde21 yearsld. rorah. >> o'donnell: all right, jamie yuccas, thank you so much. and when we come back, one of the biggest dangers to older dashboard. dashboard. not just "airline purchases." (loud) holy moley that's a lot of miles!!! shhhhh! what's in your wallet? - shhhhh! - of certain cancers clater in life.k from an infection, human papillomavirus i knew widespread hpv is and while hpv clears for most, that might not be the case for him. i knew his risk increases as he gets older. i knew a vaccine could help protect him at age 11 or 12, before he could

. >>> and can magic keep kids from vaping? the first tv ads are out targeting a growing national problem. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, this is "early start." i'm christine romans. >> good morning to you. good morning, everyone. i'm dave briggs. 4 a.m. out here in new york. it is 9 a.m. in lob dondon. a pivotal day in the u.k. boris johnson or jeremy hunt. in a few hours a new prime minister will be announced. a lot of people threatening to resign if boris johnson is elected. nick y do they call boris johnson the trump of the u.k.? >> reporter: he plays to a populus base and that's why he's expected to win this vote. we'll know the result of that in a couple of hours' times. the challenges of the prime minister will be taking over. iran is the most pressing. brexit will be left. everyone is expecting boris johnson to take over. he has taken a do or die position. he will take a hard brexit come the 31st of october. if he doesn't have a deal with the european union, it is said he will form a c

no one wants kids vaping. no one wants vaping companies to target children with advertisements. juul needs to recognize the senate has an important role to play in deterring new smokers. i'm sure we will hear more from juul and their testimony. if congress moves ahead pursuing more regulations for these products, we should know the effects on positive public health alternatives. prematurely over regulating companies such as juul could one a disastrous effect impeding access to a product that helps smoking cessation. the way this hearing was presented to the minority and the public was we were going to have one panel. i see we have switched to two panels. makinge a reason we are the change? >> that was never agreed to. we added a witness. but we never agreed to have them testified together. >> but they are here and i thought we agreed that we are going to have one panel. you waited a half an hour to start the hearing even though we were here. i'm looking at what makes sense in a practical sense. the way it was noted to us was there would be one panel today with witnesses from juu

do you think your kid's vaping? are you sure they're not vaping? you've got to be aware of this.evices were designed to be concealed. they're designed to look like usb devices. >> any sense of how many are doing it? >> yeah. i mean, keep in mind when you get this kind of data, you're asking kids, right? you're counting on the kids being forthright. they say 3.6 middle schoolers and high schoolers vaping. that went up from 1.2 million in 2017. so we'll have to see what the 2019 data shows. if it continues that trajectory, this is going to be one of the most commonly performed activities in schools. >> sanjay, so many parents are appreciative of you staying on this story and continuing to bring it to light. that is their biggest worry. >> i've got kids too. i'm looking into this for myself in part. >> thanks, sanjay. >> thank you. >>> you'd think election security could be an issue both would get behind? so why is did republicans vote against it? a cnn reality check next. ♪ it's nice. ♪ you got this! ♪ woo! ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> a veteran iowa fire chief is going beyond all possible doubt the

they used to smoke in the boys room, as the song used to say, and they're going to vape.ut if the category is really going to survive, they say, and help adult smokers quit, they have to get this thing under control. it's a big reason why juul talked to us >> we'll be watching tonight my son sure will, the special tonight. america's vaping addiction, right? did i get the title right? >> that's right. >> thanks, carl. good to see you in the afternoon, my friend good tech titan peter thiel suggesting google be investigated whether his board seat at facebook has anything to do with it, next >>> peter thiel, a billionaire investor and co founder of the data analytics firm palantir, spoke at the national conservative conference in washington on sunday according to a report from the event by axios, thiel called out google for, quote, seemingly treasonous activity, accusing them of working with china and saying the company should be questioned by both the fbi and cia. google released a statement saying, quote, as we have said before, we do not work with the chinese military let'

. >>> and still ahead, stopping teens from vaping. how the feds are using a magician. >>> and which bay area city made the list for best places to raise a family. >>> and 12:12 in the afternoon and it still looks like that at the golden gate bridge. just this persistent, wet, gray blanket. i'll show you the big picture. many of us inland are looking at a hot day today. i'll have the details on that coming up. . >>> e-cigarettes could be harder to buy in the city of richmond. the mayor plans to introduce a bill to restrict the sale until they've been reviewed by the fta. and tomorrow and thursday, a committee the looking into the maker jooum in the teen epidemic. represents of the company are expected to testify as the fda launching the first tv ads to fight vaping by teens. . >> i'll put it in your hands. this is what i'm going to do. watch carefully. boom.ni to their vapes as a magician turned them to cigarettes. >> the beauty of the ads as you saw is that they're telling kids this is not something cost free and low risk. there can b

>> not one it's thanks to vaping, to be honest >> reporter: his success with vaping is a path the british government would love to have other u.k. smokers follow. using the same research about e-cigarettes that u.s. officials do, the u.k. has come to a radically different conclusion it enthusiastically embraces vaping as a healthier alternative to smoking >> most of us know that smoking is bad for our health. >> reporter: the government has even produced a striking online video to make its point. >> here is the jar with cigarette smoke. >> it just is so revolting >> reporter: obviously advertising regarding tobacco is much different over there, melissa, than it is here in the united states. but it does show you, once again, how if you come up with a disruptive technology that roils all kinds of different markets, you're eventually going to be dealing with multiple levels of policy all around the world, and that makes it extraordinarily complex aside from the technology we're talking about >> carl, you mentioned they use the same studies as are being looked at here in the united states how

, it was a sigh of relief because now they were able to vape without any concern. >> reporter: janai norman, abc news, new york. >>> there were worries home depot could close a store in oakland because of a homeless encampment. now both sides are working together to find a solution. >>> building a better bay area means taking pride in your community. a massive mural going up in san jose is doing just that. >>> first, it's 4:36. you're never more than seven minutes away from my accuweather forecast. hey, mike. >> hey, guys. here is what i'm talking about. you may notice the places in novato, oakland, hayward, fairfield where we're anywhere from four to seven degrees cooler than yesterday morning. that puts us in the mid 50s to near 60 across san francisco. a little bit of a microclimate right there. we have temperatures in the mid to upper 50s about everywhere else. 60 in palo alto, santa clara, up into fairfield. 51 in healdsburg right now. here is a look at your commute. you can see the low clouds starting to descend on the bay bridge. in fact, that's our biggest concern for driving

we're back now with the bold new move by the fda to combat the teen vaping epidemic and to stem .he use of e-cigarettes. gadi schwartz has >> reporter: tonight a new ad campaign hitting the airwaves d making its way onto >> vaping can lead to trying cigarettes. >> reporter: tv, youtube and instagram commercials teaching k magic tri turning vapes into cigarettes. >> it's not magic, it's statistics . >> reporter: the fda rolling out the new psas this month getting kids to think twice before trying e-cigarettes. >> i didn't think i was going to get addicted when i first started and i honestly didn't know i was addicted until i would say a few months in the 9th grade. >> reporter: caleb was one of 3.6 million teens and preteens estimated to have vaped last encourage ying to others to stop in high schools where one in five students is currently addicted. >> no child should have to deal with the nicotine addiction. >> reporter:caomorrow b's mom is set to testify in front of congress over the role juul, the popular e-cigettes brand has played in getting kids addicted to nicotine. on cnbc the c

we are taking a live luck jules lluse vaping epidemic. these are life pictures from the hearing. the have been going back and forth between the founder as well as members of the panel. earlier today, two teens testified before a house committee about their experience with the san francisco-based company. the highschooler said with a were in ninth grade a representative came into the classroom and told them that their products were totally safe .>> what impacted those totally safe comments have on your classrooms. some of whom may have already started vaping. >> we never wanted any non- nicotine user and certainly anyone under age to ever use juul products. this is a serious problem. our company has no higher priority than fighting it. >> federal data shows underage vaping has skyrocketed since the logic this e inteen vaping. >>> puerto rico some better governor dipping down after 12 days of historic and sometimes violent protest. celebrations spread through the city of san juan. you can see how excited they are. this is after the demo not democratic governor announced his resigna

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tonight there's growing concern about vaping after eighteens wereos htalized for serious lung damage. nbc's joe fryer has that story for us. >> reporter: at children's hospital of wisconsin, eighteenag s have been hospitalized with severe lung damage in just the past month, d andtors suspect vaping is to blame. symptoms, extreme coughing, fatigue, and shortness of breath. >> vaping is causing harm to our kids. and we want that message to be loud and clear. >> reporter: state officials say ping is the common thread among the eighteens, but they've yet to e if a specific device or substance as the cause. with an estimated 3.6 million teens and , reteens vaping last yearalth officials and parents worry it's a trend moving in the wrong direction. this week vaping was front and center in congress for a hearing cused on the popular ecigarette brand juul. >> you don't ask for permission. you ask for forgiveness. you're nothing but a marketer of a poison and your target has been young people. >> reporter: citing internal documents, members of a house th panel accused company of m directly to

getting access to vaping products. they will be presented this morning and hope to have the measure on the november ballot. jewel labs based in san francisco is a major financier behind that effort. >>> san francisco police will present a check to larkin street youth services for selling pride patches won by police officer. the department says more than $15,000 was raised, that check will be presented to the nonprofit helping young people homeless and many who are lgbtq. >>> parents who took their children to the carnival rides at the alameda county fair probably saw more than they expected. the pirates of the magical midway fun house was running a video supposed to be from a 1952 bert lancaster pirate movie what the ride operator was showing was the r-rated pirates blood brothers. one mother was stunned by what the video showed as her daughter was coming out of fema her full chest out and a guy kissing. >> the alameda county sheriff's office has jurisdiction over the fairgrounds and says the video was not porn graphic

>> for my classmates that started vaping, it was a sigh of relief because now they were able to vaped juul about this and she said it was part of a preventionle and youth program which was ended in 2018. the company says its purpose which was to educate youth on the dangers of nicotine addiction was misconstrued. the company said it has taken actions to prevent youth vaping like scaling back it's social media accounts. platforms that critics say had particular appeal among teenagers. but according to one expert that testify, it was too little, too late. >> you would have thought that hashtag posting would decline, but it surged. >> it surged in part because the hashtag itself gained a kind of social currency even after the brand had largely exited social media. they say this video should scare anyone. normalizing the use of these devices, even in a young toddler. >> we've seen lots of outrageous postings on hashtag juul. it's remarkable the lack of boundaries many posters have. >> for the most part, juul says it agrees these posts by other users are a serious problem and has gotten m

still ahead tonight, we'll take you inside the new way the fda is targeting the teen vaping epidemic >>> also, controversial i.c.e. arrests caught on camera and how i.c.e. is responding tonight >>> all right we're back now with the bold new move by the fda to combat the teen vaping epidemic and to stem the use of e-cigarettes. gadi schwartz has more >> reporter: tonight a new ad campaign hitting the airwaves and making its way onto teenager's phones. >> vaping can lead to trying cigarettes >> reporter: tv and instagram commercials featuring a magic trick turning vapes into cigarettes >> it's not magic, it is' statistics >> reporter: the epa rolling it out this month getting kids to think twice before trying cigarettes >> i didn't think i was addicted until i would say a few months in the 9th grade >> reporter: caleb and philip n 3.6 million teens and preteens year now trying to encourage others to stop in high schoolse currently addicted >> no child should have to deal with a nicotine addiction. >> reporter: tomorrow caleb's mom is set to testify in front of congress over the role ju

watch the vape. here we go. you went from vaping to trying cigarettes.es. >> i don't want to hear that, but i hear it. >> don't want to hear it, but he hears it. the centers for disease control says more than one in five high school students and nearly one in 20 middle schoolers vape. for high school students that's about a 78% increase, wow, between 2017 and 2018. >>> tomorrow and thursday a house oversight subcommittee will look into the role of the e-cigarette maker juul in this teen nicotine epidemic. anti-vaping advocates and representatives of juul are expected to give testimony. in a statement, a juul spokesperson said, quote, we share the subcommittee's concerns about youth vaping and welcome the opportunity to appear and share information about our commitment to eliminate combustible cigarettes and our aggressive leading-actions to combat youth usage. ctm correspondent anna werner has been looking into the impact of teen vaping. and our dr. tara narula is a cardiologist. good morning to you both. the perfect people for this subject. tara, let's

. >>> vaping is as bad as smoking cigarettes. one juul cartridge, a package of cigarettes worth of nicotine. welcome to "early start." that's my psa, i'm dave briggs. >> i'm christine romans. it is 5 a.m. in the east. let's begin in the u.k. where it is a pivotal day there. boris johnson or jeremy hunt. the next hour a new prime minister will be announced. a number of people are threatening to resign if johnson wins. we are lucky to have cnn's nic robertson there. he's joining us live from 10 downing street with the very latest. the odds on favorite looks like boris johnson. >> reporter: you might not have figured that this morning. jeremy hunt, the other contender in that leadership race, walked past us this morning on the way to theresa may's last cabinet meeting and he said, lovely morning. was he referring to the weather or the way the vote will go? it is expected to be boris johnson. he will have challenges. there are ministers such as the chancellor who have announced that they will resign before theresa may leaves office.

it's in the southern part of the city, and a group of 8th graders were caught all vaping. going to that school, i noticed that there were many shy folks, outspoken 8th graders, tall ones, small ones, and the one thing that they had in common as i was talking to them is they are all 13 years old, and they just started vaping for the first time. that is something that i think must be considered today, and i wanted to share also that in the last two years, this really has intensefied. this is the reality that we've seen on the ground, in the youth centers, and where we go. thank you. >> hello. my name is sean patterson. i am a resident of san francisco. i started as a smoker when i was probably almost 16. i'm now 41. the only reason i quit cigarettes after trying every other alternative was learning about vape products about three years ago. i haven't touched a cigarette in three years. you talk about harm reduction, and that's exactly what this is. i'm here for the same reasons -- same reasons as the people that are worried about our children, our youth. i'm on the same side

. >> for my classmates who were vaping, it was a sigh of relief. able to vape without concern. >> reporter: we asked juul about this. and they said presentation to students were part of made of a short-lived educational program, that was ended in september of 2018. the company says its purpose, which was to educate on nicotine addiction, was misconstrued. the company has taken actions to prevent youth vaping, like ka scaling back social media accounts. according to one expert who testified, it was too little, too late. >> you would have shot that hash tag posting would decline. but in fact, it surged. >> reporter: surged in part, because the hash tag itself gained a social currency. even after the brand had largely exited social media. they say this video should scare anyone. normalizing the use of these devices, even in a young toddler. >> we've seen lots of outrageous postings on #juul. it's remarkable, the lack of boundaries many posters have. >> reporter: the posts by users are a serious problem and have gotten 30,000 of them taken down. but wi

we start with opponents of vaping. >> kids do not associate vaping and juuling. there have been articles and studies written about this, and i know because my son and i have commented on these stories. kids think they are juuling. they don't think they are vaping or using e-cigarettes. that is the truth. announcer: at 9:50 eastern, the ceo of juul labs, a manufacturer of e-cigarettes. >> we don't want underage consumers using these products. we need to work together to make sure that no underaged consumers use this product. it is terrible for business, public health, terrible for our reputation. none of this is good stuff. announcer: watch, monday, on c-span, online at c-span.org, or listen wherever you are with the free c-span radio app. announcer: in 1979, a small met anh -- small nets with with unusual name rolled out a big idea, lets viewers make up their own mind. c-span opened up policymaking for all to see, bringing unfiltered covers of congress -- coverage of congress and beyond. on television and online, c-span is your unfiltered view of government so yo

and no one wants kids vaping kentucky republican james colmer says julie beeping a cultural phenomenony using social media influencers teens follow to build their brand but monsees says that's not true soap remaining under age usage is a priority for jill. >>there is no higher priority for this company months he says the company actually pulled its flavored products off the store shelves hoping to deter and reach kids from buying it flavors hook kids. >>and though you say that you took all the flavors out of the stores you left the mint flavor might krishnamurthy says the company still needs to do more in washington, i'm in a war nikki. >>or is always tracking local stories, here's a look at what's going on in your neighborhood right now the state police in livermore stepping up efforts to try to track down a murder suspect there now offering a $2500.

. > for my classmate who are already vaping it was a sigh of relief because now they were able to vape without any concern. >> the co-founder reiterated the company has taken steps to reduce underage use including shutting down its social media pages and pulling several flavors from stores. >> >> spacex blasted off this afternoon from florida. on board 5500 pounds of experiments, splids and food for the six astronauts at the iss and a pouch of nickelodeon's green slime. it wouldn't be complete without that. it's part of a new publicity campaign to encourage childrenton pursue science, tech and engineering fields. >> nearly 3 million people visit joshua tree every year. now new projections show they could be missing from the park by the end of this century because of climate change. reporter rob mcmillan from kabc says the future of the park is dire. >> what would joshua tree national park be without joshua trees? hard to imagine but a new study suggests because of climate change, it's happening. not that the old trees are dying out that rapidly. it's the young ones. >> two or three yea

house subcommittee is investigating the company's potential role in teen vaping spikes.christina with more. >> this has been an ongoing story. you have house democrats putting this hearing on. it's been two days. it's literally going on right now they're looking into whether juul is marketing specifically to youth. if you look at a 2018 2018 stu, they found that students, high schoolers, middle schoolers, 3.6 million of them were vaping. that number, you don't think it's big? it increased 1.5 million in just one year. you can understand why they are wondering, is juul being marketed towards children with flavors like mango and mint? they be 20 minutes ago you had opening statements. the chairman spoke. listen to what he had to say about juul. >> today we'll learn how juul effectively used social media influencers to build a youth oriented brand, making vaping a cultural phenomenon. as an aside, just before i came to this hearing, my wife informed me that my child high school is now installing vaped detectors in the restrooms. >> yesterday you had high school students tes

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by the end of 2018 more than 3.5 million american kids were vaping.uul is i fraction of the use of vabor products by minors. i think we getth a lot o attention and criticism because we are the biggest prend, the biggest er bu we're certainly not the only product out >> reporter: juul is one of thousands of e-cigarette products in what is a $9 billion a year industry.s the company s it was created to help cigaretteeimokers kick habit. since its launch in 2015 juul has captured over 40% of the market and is valued at about $38 billion. >> it really started taking off just recently, and that caught us by surprise. and then we had to do a lot of catching up. wd alongh that ramping growth came the unintended consequenc of usage by youth. >> reporter: can you explain to viewers about the marketing stragy, about campaigns tha appear aimed at young people? >> well, we think that's inappropriate. when we launched juul, we had a campaign that was t arguabl kind of lifestyle-oriented, too hy, less than six months. it was in the early days of the product introduc

the fda is hoping their new anti vaping ad will work its magic on kids who think that vaping is safergarettes in it a street magician performs illusions with people's face making a look like eastern them in to cigarettes the ad says it's not magic. it's statistics. regulators say as many as 80% of middle and high school students don't think regularly smoking e cigarettes is all that harmful, but the cigarettes just like regular cigarettes put people at risk for addiction. and other health consequences and teens who vape are more likely to start smoking cigarettes. >>the terminal honoring san francisco icon harvey mk is now open here at sfo, the first 9 gates section of terminal, one welcoming passengers today kron 4 sarah stinson shows us what it looks like and she also delves into the next big project at the airport. >>the first flights have taken off from the newly remodeled terminal one you can see passengers trickling into security right now. and civil rights activist. her son to become an elected official in california. the terminals a part of a 3 phase redevelopment project cost

the cdc reports a 78% increase in vaping among high school students between 2017-2018. to cut nearly everyone off guard. he testified the only goal is to help the world's 1 billion smokers stop using traditional tobacco products. >> are you concerned by the number of teenagers who reap court vaping are using juul . >> i could not be more concerned about that. >> was your product ever intended for underage use? c no. his company is taking steps to keep products away from young people by removing flavors from store shelves. >> in november 2018, we pulled over 50% of our revenue off the market. for mackey told lawmakers that 25 supports legislation prohibiting sales to anyone under 21. chris martinez, kpix 5. >>> two teenagers testified today about their experience with juul. they say an executive came to the ninth-grade classroom and said that the products were totally safe. more on the testimony tonight on the cbs evening news with nora o'donnell at 6:30 pm. >>> art named the new general manager. he is promising to go on a listening tour to tackle the agency challenges.

reported vaping from several weeks to several months prior to being admitted.he names and types of products used remain unknown but patient interviews are ongoing. only one of the patients is still being hospitalized, but doctors are concerned. the symptoms appear to be much more acute than those of teens smoking cigarettes. >> in pediatrics we rarely see effects from typical or traditional combustible problems because they're more long term than short term. >> reporter: they're still gathering information on what connection there may be among these eight cases, if any. the new development coming on the same day that lawmakers grilled the co-founder of the nation's leading e-cigarette company, juul. >> we never wanted any non-nicotine user and certainly nobody underage to ever use juul products. >> reporter: but even juul's co-founder acknowledging that teen vaping is a serious problem. and according to a recent survey sponsored by the department of health and human services, a whopping 37% of 12th graders reported vaping in 2018. that's compared to 28% in 2017