In congress and at the white house on the issue of vaping and underage use of ecigarettes. We are joined by andrew, who covers health care for cq roll call. Tell us why underage vaping became a bigger issue in 2019. Andrew i think it was a combination of factors that really drove this to the front of the policy debate this year. One was just a year over year increases in the number of teens who are reporting ecigarette use. Thats been increasing for several years, but 2019, we saw another significant increase over last year. Another was interrelated, but sort of distinct issue that we saw, starting over the summer with vaping related illnesses that were beginning to emerge, that weve now seen thousands injured and dozens dead from this. Thats related to illicit thc vaping, which is distinct from the problem of ecigarette use. But the urgency of those illnesses i think really prompted policymakers to want to respond more broadly to the vaping issues were dealing with in the u. S. Host a
Going to show you some of the recent debate in congress and at the white house on the issue of vaping and underage use of ecigarettes. We are joined by andrew siddons, who covers health care for cq roll call. Tell us why the issue of underage vaping became a bigger issue in 2019. Andrew i think it was a combination of factors that really drove this to the front of the policy debate this year. One was just the year over year increases in the number of teens who are reporting ecigarette use. Thats been increasing for several years, but 2019, we saw another significant increase over last year. Another was interrelated, but a sort of distinct issue that we saw, starting over the summer with vaping related illnesses that were beginning to emerge, that weve now seen thousands injured and dozens dead from this. Thats related to illicit thc vaping, which is distinct from the problem of ecigarette use. But the urgency of those illnesses i think really prompted policymakers to want to respond mo
Africa. The worst drug disaster in history would spread through more than 46 countries and produce up 220000 badly deformed babies world war. But historians today single out one birth in 1961 that changed the course of history in hamburg germany linda shoulder fillin age 23 gave birth to her 1st child her husband wasnt with her that time and he was quite a day out. And then i lay back and was relaxed and some of the somebody whispered into my ear a shotgun all right and i was white awake and i said. Whats got what has happened to my baby is. Anything wrong you know she said just. Lets say. Without any emotion oh yeah hes just got short arms and i like a child would have asked possibly i said and ill take knowing any more and shed caught grow this would be marketed snow. And then i felt like i was beaten to death. A doctor gave the 1st time mother son friendly advice just get another child. Like forget about him you know. Poem away forget about him and shortly afterwards then his husban
Languishing in storage. An president xi jinping confirms china supports carrie lam in hong kong, but says the protests create the grimmest and most complicated challenge. Paul all right. We have the market open here in australia. It is highly likely the asx will make some record highs today. But we have a staggered open here so it is fairly quiet right now. Just modest increases that we are seeing. We are going to keep a close eye on westpac, now facing its 4th investigation into these Money Laundering allegations just filed by the banking regulator today, announcing it will be investing getting whether law. Ac broke the we have new zealand higher by almost. 5 . Was packed new zealand shares still in a trading halt. U. K. Futures looking flat right now, a similar story for u. S. Futures. But that may well change during the course of the day, especially after we saw some very positive gains on the u. S. Equity markets tradeinspired during yesterdays trade. We will keep you uptodate as t
Highest court after she dismisses allegations of genocide. And on the last day of campaigning britains Prime Minister retreats into a fridge to avoid a t. V. Interview and former labor m. P. s turned on jeremy corbett. Israel appears headed towards an unprecedented 3rd election in less than a year with the failure of politicians there to form a Coalition Government the midnight deadline has just passed but the knesset has already taken the 1st steps to dissolve itself and call another election neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nor his rival benny gantz could form a coalition after the last to vote in September Kerry force it is our correspondent in west jerusalem so harry when do we think this will happen. Well the the decision i think on a possible unity government or a Coalition Government that is now done and dusted bar the official confirmation from the the president the knesset that nobody actually came up with the 61 members required to form that Coalition Government so t