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Die. we need solutions, not just prohibitions on safe products. >> how did people get off smoking before this? >> nicotine gum, patch, lozenge, cold turkey. from 2003 to 2009, the adult smoking rate stagnated. even through a recession with a cigarette tax hike. >> do you have kids? >> the smoking rate barely went down. no, i do not. >> if you had kids -- >> i dont care if you have kids or not. would you let your kids vape. no, right? >> no, like i wouldnt let them smoke or use marijuana in any f...

Now. >> i dont know. i havent studied that. >> its on the table? >> no one is -- no, i wouldnt say its 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 thats 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 ...

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 dont want youth to vape. the...

Die. we need solutions, not just prohibitions on safe products. >> how did gpeople get off smoking before this? >> nicotine gum, patch, lozenge, cold turkey. from 2003 to 2009, the adult smoking rate stagnated. even through a recession with a cigarette tax hike. >> do you have kids? >> the smoking rate barely went down. no, i do not. >> if you had kids -- >> i dont care if you have kids or not. would you let your kids vape. no, right? >> no, like i wouldnt let them smoke or use marijuana in any ...

Juul marketing outwardly, that made this thing cool like we saw with tobacco. there are reasons that we put the prohibitions on tobacco we did and you dont have them. you can throw concerts. you guys can front things. tobacco cant. >> lets talk. lets talk about restricting marketing. fine. lets talk about restricting favor names, restrictin restric packaging. why are we talking about prohibiting a -- >> thats a problem, too. we put warnings on cigarettes. you dont have any warnings. why do you h...

Devices like your own, if not juul marketing outwardly, that made this thing cool like we saw with tobacco. there are reasons that we put the prohibitions on tobacco we did and you dont have them. you can throw concerts. you guys can front things. tobacco cant. >> lets talk. lets talk about restricting marketing. fine. lets talk about restricting favor names, restricting packaging. why are we talking about prohibiting a -- >> thats a problem, too. we put warnings on cigarettes. you dont have any...

So start. who got to the president? >> it wasnt us. someone on twitter actually suggested it was us. it was not. what i think happened is that a huge portion of the 10 to 13 million american adults who use vaping products lit up the white house switchboard line as well as conservatives, liberals on twitter pointing out that president trump could lose in 2020 because of disaffected voters because of a decision like this. we are not out of the clear. a trump tweet doesnt mean much unless its follo...

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. >> dont vape. we dont like vaping. i dont 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 alterna...

>> it wasnt us. someone on twitter actually suggested it was us. it was not. what i think happened is that a huge portion of the 10 to 13 million american adults who use vaping products lit up the white house switchboard line as well as conservatives, liberals on twitter pointing out that president trump could lose in 2020 because of disaffected voters because of a decision like this. we are not out of the clear. a trump tweet doesnt mean much unless its followed by making sure the policy fda in...

Sell -- >> you dont know if its safe now. >> public health england, royal college of physicians have both stated through great research that vaping, they have estimated at least 95% less dangerous than smoking. and even the food and drug administration came out and said that an adult smoker who switches to vaping is greatly benefiting their health. the fda released a warning about vaping thc. they did not release a warning pointing to nicotine products, contaminated thc oils. >> this is new terr...