Political Quotes

“He talks about the purpose of this bill being to deter teenage smoking. And I believe that we must keep our focus on that as the principal goal. Personally, I believe that raising the price of cigarettes alone is not going to be enough. I think we have to have advertising restrictions and a counteradvertising campaign. But we also must have sanctions on teenagers. If it is illegal, and if they purchase-- knowingly purchase--cigarettes in violation of the law, there ought to be sanctions; there ought to be graduated sanctions. There ought to be sanctions that apply to their parents as well, because just raising the price and putting burdens only on the sellers may make this a thrill-seeking opportunity for some teenagers. I believe that among the amendments, we need to adopt that there be tougher sanctions on teenagers.”