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Play books. >> reporter: weve seen passionate exchanges between tobacco opponents, juul executives, and members of congress at a two-day congressional hearing on juuls role in the youth vaping epidemic. perhaps the most exciting exchange came from high schoolers who revealed that juul sent presenters to their classroom and the teacher was asked to leave the room. >> did they call juul totally safe more than once? >> yes. >> what impact did those, quote, totally safe comments have on your classma...

Reveal the e-cigarette company spent hundreds of thousands of funds to support youth programming. a representative told a ninth grade classroom the e-cigarette was totally safe. dr. san jay gupta has details. >> reporter: we face an entire generation of kids who are human guinea pigs for the experiments overall. >> reporter: many of the tactics are right out of the tobacco play book. >> we never wanted anyone underage to ever use juul products. >> reporter: weve seen passionate exchanges between...

How far e-cigarette companies will go to reach new customers. a congressional investigation into the vaping manufacturer juul, is revealing shocking facts about what it did to get teenagers attention. dr. sanjay gupta has this story. >> we face an entire generation of kids addicted to nicotine, who are human guinea pigs for the juul experiment overall. >> many of juuls tactics seem to be out of the tobacco playbook. >> we didnt want anybody under age to use juul products. >> reporter: weve seen ...

>> you would have thought that hashtag posting would decline. but it surged. >> reporter: surged because it gained a kind of social currency. even after the brand had largely exited social media. jack lew and others say this video should scare anyone. normalizing the use of these devices even in a young toddler. >> weve seen lots of outrageous posting on #juul. >> reporter: for its part, juul says it agrees. these posts are a serious problem and have gotten more than 30,000 of them taken down. b...

Revealed that juul had sent a representative to their classroom last year and that teachers were asked to leave the room. >> did the presenter call juul, quote unquote, totally safe more than once? >> yes. >> what impacted those, quote unquote, totally safe comments have on your classmates? some of whom may have already started vaping? >> for my classmates already vaping, it was a sigh of relief. now they could vape without any concern. >> we asked juul about this and they said presentations to ...

Being worked on. and lastly the family of emmett till speaking about this photo to cnn says, to see them standing there smiling is disappointing but not surprise i in ing. we have to stay focused for justice for emmett till. nobody has ever been convicted for tils murder. he would have been 78 yesterday. john and alisyn. >> i have to say, martin, it is horrifying to see that picture when you just think about the history. >> that we keep learning over and over again, its seems. >> and hear from t...

Passionate hearing. you had people talking about all aspects of these e-cigarettes. the marketing claims, the health claims, the role with big tobacco. theyre putting billions of dollars into these e-cigarettes. that should tell you something about this. but there were also some pretty jaw dropping moments just as you watch the story unfoeltd. think about it as a parent. heres some of what we learned. >> we face an entire generation of kids addicted to nicotine who are human guinea pigs. >> many...

And behavior assessments. a spokesman for the company says that juul did not end up collecting the information. were learning this disturbing information after congressional hearings this week. cnns chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta has more. >> these children are human beginy pigs. >> the tactics seem to be right out of the tobacco play book. >> we never wanted any non-nicotine user, and certainly nobody underage, to ever use juul products. >> reporter: weve seen passionate exchanges...