it s good to be with you, chris. i saw you this weekend, it still matters. it s not in the headlines, shame on us, but the problem continues. the idea that we have moved past this, what have you learned in your advocacy work about what s happening today with kids and vaping? we haven t moved past this. i think it s a problem, because we re not talking about it. you know, juul created the youth vaping epidemic. they did not launch their e-cigarette device to help adults quit smoking. they create d a sexy new nicotine delivery system. they delivered a secular e-vaping system and kids flocked to it about five years ago. this is personal to me. my son was introduced to juul the summer before ninth grade. but what really upset us was a juul representative was sent to a kid s ninth grade class under the guys of an anti-drug talk
from using e sicigarettes. thanks so much for joining me. thank you. you two came together a year ago to create this group. because you had been looking around and realized there was nothing, there was no group like this. is that right? right. that s how it first started. we started to notice the proliferation of the ju, l around our kids. my own son was using it and i would find it time and time again in his pogts and we didn t really understand what it was. we looked it up, but it wasn t very clear online. it was a nicotine delivery system, but aside from that, we didn t know. so yes, we started to look and there was a real catalyst which pusheded us forward which was when a juul representative came into our kid s school and discussed it with them, telling them it was safe, but they weren t want as customers, but it was safe. then we had to. how does a company like this
unlicensed? synthetic? butane? hash oil? what causes that he pneumonia? the alcohol-based nicotine product doesn t cause. as viewers and citizens we need to look for specificity and facts because right now we don t know what exactly the cause of it is. dana: what do we know, greg? greg: i have no palms with what they are saying. i have a qualm with how the media deals with it. this story needs to be taken seriously and scientifically. you are delivering nicotine through vapor, not smoking. 50 years ago people were vaping. a lot of relatives will be alive right now if they had this nicotine delivery system which wasn t wrapped in tar. to the victims, to your point, there was a study in minnesota where they were mixing nicotine and pot. that could ve played a role.
to. once you get addicted to it, you ll want it. you get addicted to nicotine, then not want another nicotine delivery system the dumb. and your study, i hope it didn t cost you a lot of money because all you had to do was ask someone. battling massive wildfires out west. nearly a hundred fires burned through people s homes and businesses.
electronic cigarette. that means across the country almost 2 million of those students are smoking or using those electronic cigarettes. now, like a regular cigarette, these electronic cigarettes are a nicotine delivery system and instead of creating smoke, they create a vapor with a heated nicotine liquid. in our interview with dr. marc siegel said he s concerned these electronic cigarettes could be a gateway for young people to start using real cigarettes and effectively reducing that downward trend in smoking. if kids get hooked on nicotine because of e-cigarettes, that may make them life-long smokers, not just of e-cigarettes but traditional cigarettes and we know cigarettes are the number one cause of death in this country. anything that gets kids hooked on nicotine is a bad thing. reporter: unlike regular