young kids if that s all it s for? 95% less harmful than smokers. smokers need to know i get the less bad argument. you ha you are throwing concerts. that s not for adult smokers and you know it. concerts aren t for adults. there are kids concerts. have you been to a concert in the past 20 years? name what kid concert i m very hip. this isn t something i want to mess around with and be cute about because you have kids laying in hospital beds all over the country and what they have in common is they are using your product and you don t seem that concerned about it. you are looking at the minimum what do they have in common? according to the new england journal much medicine 84% of the patients admitted to thc vaping and the journalists that have been covering this story and focusing almost exclusively they don t know the answers. and there is a kid sitting in a hospital bed with a lawsuit against you saying that you re marketing hooked him in like other kids and
argue that vaping is popular with kids and the flavor, different cartridges they can use work specifically for kids in terms of enticing them to get into the habit. once again, yale school of public health, national bureau of public research, if you ban flavors you increase smoking. the most popular favors for adult are sweet and fruits. when you look at the 2.5, 3 million ex-smokers created because of vaping, they are using non-tobacco you are saying kids will smoke unless they vape? what we have seen as vaping has increased, we don t want youth to vape. they reality is they experiment. we saw the largest decrease in teen smoking but the question is what they are doing now is killing them. what goes into your devices they is causing a lot of problems around this country. how do you not have responsibility for that? what is going into the devices are products sold by drug dealers.
we will look at the question of confiscation? you think that s legal? i mean, i know there is no law now. i don t know. i haven t studied that. it s on the table? no one is no, i wouldn t say it s on the table. we are going to have a hearing on assault weapons and witnesses and members of the committee can raise whatever they want with respect to assault weapons. the primary focus is to have an assault weapons ban. and that s what but people can raise whatever they want about that. chairman, i threw a lot at you tonight. i appreciate it. friday the 13th living up to its name. thank you. i look forward to have you on going forward. another battle looming in the country may come over vaping. e-cigarettes. the companies behind it are not taking these concerns well. the head of the american vaping association is here. we will get reaction to the president s confusing tweet tonight that seems to contradict his own red flag move from just
we re hearing far too many stories like that of adam. he is 18. doctors say he has the lungs of a 70-year-old. now at least adam is alive. six people are not. and there are hundreds of cases being investigated across this country, and it seemed the president was leading the effort to check vaping and e-cigarettes by saying this just yesterday. don t vape. we don t like vaping. i don t like vaping. now he says he does like vaping as an alternative to cigarettes. here it is in his own words. why i like the vaping alternative to cigarettes we need to make sure this alternative is safe for all. so he doesn t know if it s safe, but he likes it as an alternative? my next guest is gregory conley. he is the president of the american vaping association. welcome to prime time. thanks for having us. so give me some inside scoop
lots of ways to get off cigarettes. many in my family have done it. it s not easy. it s so hard, when you go to rehabs, they let you keep smoking cigarettes while you are getting off something like heroin. there is no question that the addiction is pernicious, which is why that industry got hammered the way it did over time. you said you can find examples of marketing to kids. yeah, you can. no, no. i said inappropriate marketing. i did not say marketing to children. let s be clear. you have college scholarship programs how is that not marketing to children? a college scholarship program? small little web companies that represent 0.01% of the market does not represent the entire industry doing bad things. i can come up with better examples if you like. i have a ton of examples. yonds that you would argue that vaping is popular with kids and the flavor, different cartridges