2012 viscount at to be one in ecigarette use among teens more than doubled. 1,800,000 kids have tried these products. A recent study found that awareness of ecigarettes among youth is virtually ubiquitous. I guess that means that they have to see stuff somewhere like advertising. Maybe television, maybe newspapers, magazines, maybe lots of them. We will talk about that. The growth and you have awareness and use of e ecigarettes has coincided with a plug of recent e cigarette marketing activity. A report published this month in the journal of pediatrics found that you if exposure to leadcigarette advertising on television increased 256 in 2 years. That is kind of like everyone the results are out on the health surveys. Just go, go for it. Go for that dollar. 256 increase extraordinary a major American Legacy Foundation report found last year over 14 million teens saw two for advertising on tv and nine and a half million saw print ads the russo while Major Companies reiterate that the on
Join the conversation on twitter http twitter. Com cspanwj or on facebook. You can email us at journal cspan. Org. Join us on the phone is David Jackson who covers the white house for usa today. David, what is the white house mulling over when it comes to russia paying a cost for the continued intervention in ukraine . Guest theyre trying to get their other countries to participate in sanctions against russia, which is proving to be did more difficult than expected. Theyre having a tough time with a global approach, if you will, toward making russia pay economically. They have already instituted or begun the process of instituting domestic sanctions, putting visa restrictions on russians who are deemed to have been involved in the incursion into crimea. Thereve also gone about the process of identifying russians who been involved in trying to freeze our assets and taking other economic actions against them. Theres the talk about trying to cut off you his business with Russian Companies
Detainees at Guantanamo Bay. This provision makes sense for the security of this country and it makes sense for good intelligence collection. The ban on transfers to yemen is a very critical aspect of this amendment. The amendment bans any detainee transfers to yemen until december 31, 2014. Its been four years since the president posed a moratorium on transfers to yemen from guantanamo following the failed airplane bombing attempt on Christmas Day 2009 by umar farouk. At that time yemen was viewed as a hot spot for terrorists especially with the rise of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. Now four years later not much really has changed except for the rising recidivism rate. We know that former detainees have rejoined aqap both as leaders as well as members. We know that former detainees have rejoined we know that yemen continues to struggle with terrorist groups who are trying to make sure it remains an aqap strong hold. And we know that aqap continues to look for ways like the 2009 f
Total in order to fully focus on running the country, in order to make America Great again. Trumps announcement comes as his Economic Team is taking shape. Pick for treasury secretary former Goldman Sachs partner Stephen Mnuchin who led the company that bought failed subprime lender indymac for pennies on the dollar. A good investment on his part. Also a hollywood movie producer whose films include american sniper and the lego movie trumps pick for commerce secretary, wilbur ross, resurrecting dies companies and his Company Owned the mine where it miners were killed in a an explosion a couple months after his corporation took it over. And Phil Mattingly has the late effort on the president elects cabinet picks and senior political reporter manu raju is on capitol hill for us where Vice President elect is paying a visit. What do these selections of ma nu nuch mnuchin and ross single about the Economic Policy . Reporter sounds like an aggressive economic agenda next year, including taxes
Russians, and he was talking with trump transition officials specifically about the fact that he was having conversations with the russians about them taking it easy on the issue of russian sanctions. Now, thats important because the white house has portrayed mike flynn contacting the russians about sanctions as some kind of betrayal, right . Remember, their line was that they had to fire mike flynn, they had to obtain his resignation because he lied about his contacts with the russians to Vice President mike pence. Yeah. Who could have known what mike flynn was really up to . It was such a betrayal. He lied. Well, that all fell apart last month when the New York Times published direct quotes from emails that had reportedly been sent among top transition staff discussing just exactly what mike flynn was doing with the russians. Quote, on december 29th, a transition advisor k. T. Mcfarland wrote in an email to a colleague that sanctions announced hours before by the Obama Administration