From their platforms. This is a matter of serious importance to the safety and wellbeing of her nations communities. I sincerely hope we can engage in a collaborative discussion about what more can be done within the jurisdiction of this committee to keep our communities safe from those wishing to do us harm. Today we welcome representatives from the Worlds Largest social Media Companies and on line platforms. We hear from ms. Monika bickert, head of the local policy management for facebook. And mr. Nick pickles Public Policy director of twitter. Mr. Derek slater global director of information policy at google and mr. George salim Senior Vice President of programs for the antidefamation league. Over the past two decades the United States has let the world in development of social media and other services that allow people to connect with one another. Open platform like Google Twitter facebook and instagram and youtube have dramatically change the way we communicate and have been used p
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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
See a loss in advertising. One of the nice things that mimic the act of smoking. Is school, kids are cool. These products are relatively new and longterm Health Effects are unknown at this point which raises the question why in heavens name are you going ahead and marketing these things and selling them and putting them on line when the results of Health Studies which have been done seriously are still out. Why would you do that . You want to make money. That is your answer. You tell me youre just talking to adults but you are not, you want to make money so you plunge in, get what you can and studies come out and you go ahead and do it until the fda put some nice rules and regulations on you. These products are relatively new and their longterm Health Effects are unknown however they do indicate they do deliver nicotine and is a highly addictive substance. Nicotine can affect brain development. Among young kids lose some people claim ecigarettes can help adults quit smoking combustible