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Im joinedho today by two incredible offers tha authors te going to help us with American Health care. Katherine eban, investigative journalist and the articles on counterfeiting have Won International attention and numerous awards. She lectures frequently on the topic of pharmaceutical integrity, the inside story of the generic drug bill and the book was published by harpercollins as a bestseller. For the majority of the lowcost of Generic Medicines made repealing fraud and dire conditions educated at Brown University in oxford where she was a Rhodes Scholar lives in brooklyn with her husband,...

On cspan2. Great weather here all the time. [inaudible conversations] good morning. Welcome to the texas book festival. Im joined today by two incredible authors who are going to help us unpack American Health care. Katherine eban, who whens an investigative journalist, a Fortune Magazine contributor and an Andrew Carnegie fellow. Her articles on pharmaceutical counterfeiting, gun trafficking and coercive interrogations by the cia have Won International attention and numerous awards. She lectures frequently on the topic of pharmaceutical integrity, bottle of lies the inside story of the generi...

Became a bigger issue in 2019. Andrew i think it was a combination of factors that really drove this to the front of the policy debate this year. One was just a year over year increases in the number of teens who are reporting ecigarette use. Thats been increasing for several years, but 2019, we saw another significant increase over last year. Another was interrelated, but sort of distinct issue that we saw, starting over the summer with vaping related illnesses that were beginning to emerge, that weve now seen thousands injured and dozens dead from this. Thcs related to illicit vaping, which ...

Going to show you some of the recent debate in congress and at the white house on the issue of vaping and underage use of ecigarettes. We are joined by andrew siddons, who covers health care for cq roll call. Tell us why the issue of underage vaping became a bigger issue in 2019. Andrew i think it was a combination of factors that really drove this to the front of the policy debate this year. One was just the year over year increases in the number of teens who are reporting ecigarette use. Thats been increasing for several years, but 2019, we saw another significant increase over last year. An...

Dangerous to youth . Two fundamental reasons, our brainstorm fully develop until 4 25 or 26 years old, and its clear that any exposure to nicotines in the still developing adolescent brain is harmful, regardless of what the other hazards, chemicals in the vapor are. Just the nicotine alone is reason enough to be concerned that no good should be concerned. Then, when you add what is known, those bring additional risks. We have to still called Harm Reduction debate, that is a different question, when we ask about if we switch to ecigarettes, well be exposing itself to fewer toxins. As i said, ki...