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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Jun 17, 2014

This was just an avoidable catastrophe. And we just have to make sure that other young people... aren't actually made vulnerable by the marketing of these companies.

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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Jun 17, 2014

And we still are in your debt, Dick, for that day. It changed the whole course of history.

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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Jun 17, 2014

If that is the case and they're addictive, than what possible argument can they make in order to keep these products on the market or targeted toward children?

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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Jun 17, 2014

Will you commit to going through your social media sites to erase any past images such as those that appeal to those who are young kids?

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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Jun 17, 2014

I spoke on the Durbin Amendment on the House floor in 1987, I think it was, which was the first amendment ever brought out on the House or Senate floor to ban smoking on flights 2 hours or less.

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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Jun 17, 2014

So 'cool' was a word then and it's a word now, and each time it's just kind of trying to get the young kid into the pattern of smoking cigarettes.

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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Jun 17, 2014

For many, the thought of Santa Claus brings back nostalgia of childhood cookies and big white beard.

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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Jun 17, 2014

Will you commit to not using any kind of cartoons in the future, Mr. Healey?

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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Jun 17, 2014

So, Dr. Tanski, if you could give me a yes or a no, is the nicotine that is present in e-cigarettes and e-liquids any less addictive than nicotine in traditional cigarettes?

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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Jun 17, 2014

It's clear that many of these images are quite glamorous and quite attractive and they really are taking a lesson from the 1950s playbook of the tobacco companies.

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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Jun 17, 2014

Do you agree that the blu's tagline 'Nobody likes a quitter' may be encouraging continued nicotine and tobacco use by those who would otherwise quit altogether?

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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Jun 17, 2014

I am the son of a milkman so I know that technological change can occur.

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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Jun 17, 2014

I would like to move to another example which is the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative across the northeast in terms of the impact that has had in reducing greenhouse gases and at the same time overlapping with an economy across the…

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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Jun 17, 2014

Since the RGGI was put in place, there has actually been a 40 percent reduction in greenhouse gases in those States on average where it was put in place but in addition, it has helped to save consumers money, created jobs, generated over…

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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Jun 17, 2014

EPA's regulation of power plants will bring us immediate health benefits.

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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Jun 17, 2014

The actual truth is, we are seeing climate change right now.

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Ed Markey
@edmarkey· Democratic · MA· Jun 17, 2014

It is unfortunate that marginalized folks, often poor people, are the ones who feel the impact of us doing nothing most.

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