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percentage of e cigarette users among high school students jumped from 1.5% to 20.8%. last year the surgeon general released an advisory that called teen vaping an epidemic. i want to talk about this with medical correspondent dr. john torrez. good to see you. this was thought of as really the advances in cutting smoking down was built around not having teens pick up smoking. that was thought to be the big game. taxes on cigarettes that made it expensive, rules about not selling single cigarettes. i had no idea vaping had become as serious a matter as it has for young people. it is essentially an epidemic, that s about what every expert calls it. what initially happened, it started off as an adult product, but children, teenagers picked up on it, adolescents, and if you talk to most, they say in
averaged only one per month. the centers for disease control says the liquids in flavors like mellon and strawberry look and smell like candy. so one mouthful of this for a child is like eating that s like eating four or five cigarettes. that could be lethal. reporter: and you don t even have to swallow it to get sick. you have gotten calls from people while they re filling this thing up, it spills on their skin, and they start to feel sick. you can start feeling sick in as little as four to five minutes. reporter: a spokesman for e cigarette makers say they want child proof packaging and warning labels and they re working with regulators but he puts some of the safety burden on consumers, too. this is an adult product and should be treated as such, he wrote. responsible behavior should be promoted and endorsed. the centers for disease control all these liquids a threat. poison experts say bottles can spill, cartridges can break, and little hands can get into this highly co
eric: a toy maker fighting the nanny state. the maker of buckcyballs urging the president to step in after getting slapped with a suit by the consumer protection agency saying these are too dangerous. already, some have agreed to stop selling them. my guest is fighting back, running the company behind the buckcyball. i have bought a set of these things for my kid three years ago and they are amazing. they fantastic. my kid never put them in his mouth although he was only about nine. guest: i hope your kid is over 14 because the product as you see and is labeled is for adults only, labeled for adults only and that is how we mark it. an adult product. eric: tell us why the agency slapped you with this lawsuit. what are they claiming?
unfortunately. the consumer products safety commission remedy for balloons is to put a warning on the out of the package. our product has five warnings, repeated warnings, the same warning in five places on the packages and instructions and it is marketed it adults only and we have no incident rate close to that and they are say that is not enough. there are multiple other products like this in your him, all over your house, cleaning products, medicine, where the remedy is warning but if some ron it is in the sufficient for our adult product. eric: it is tough to be a small business owner. guest: it is. like your last segment said the country was built on start-ups like ours. it feels un-american for me to tell my employees, our 200 sales representatives and 5,000 mom-and-pop retail stores that the government doesn t want to us sell the product any more. so, it mate it extremely