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Know enough yet to draw the same conclusion that bp is drawing and no other government official that we talked to, said bp is cherry picking its data. >> we are not cherry picking the data. if you look at the report we put out at the five-year mark, it shows things both positive and negative about the environment. so this is not cherry picking by any means. this is the most comprehensive view of the gulf. >> is the gulf nearing recovery? >> ah, you know, we are in the process of a long-term study of the effects of the bp oil. you can't do population level studies overnight. it takes time to lo...

Consumed over that same period of time is the same. that goes against what people are thinking. the thing i want to point out is we've got to make a distinction between population based data like this and data, you know, in an individual person. because while on a population level we're not eating more calories per se over the 20 years -- if you go further back we are over that 20-year period and we've redesigned our environment so that we don't move. on an individual level your weight is still the balance of the amount of calories and the type of calories that you take in and the amount of en...

Entirety of 2012. and ad spending for e-cigarettes is expected to grow even more in 2014 if the fda doesn't propose curbs to the devices and their advertising. stanton glantz is the director of the center for tobacco control research and education. norman siegel headed up the aclu for 15 years. doctor, if smokers view the ads and turn from cigarettes to e-cigarettes, wouldn't that be a good thing? >> well, that would be a good thing if that's what was actually happening. but that's not what's been happening. what's been happening is people are using e-cigarettes in addition to regular cigarett...

What could happen? >> well, there are two kinds. two groups of consequences, if you will. one is the acute consequence that occurs immediately or shortly thereafter. the other which on a population level would be more concerning are the long-term effects. if chernobyl is a good lesson for us to learn from then it was the long-term effects on the population scale that mattered the most. the acute effects of radiation could be -- could result from either external exposure meaning you just get exposed to photons or radioactive particles that get in the clothes, for example. or internally deposite...