Political Quotes

“I am going to support the strongest possible tobacco legislation we can put together. I am going to support not the weakest, but the strongest tobacco legislation we can put together. There are two reasons for this. First, Smoking kills our people. Second, kids are the targets of the tobacco companies, which is a crime against them and against all of us. For these two critical reasons we must act now to pass the strongest tobacco legislation possible. Approximately 90 percent of adult smokers started smoking at or before the age of 18. When they are older, 66 percent of them say, 'Oh, my God, I wish I could quit.' We need to do something to help young people so that they are not faced with this painful, horrible addiction later in life. How do you do that? You don't do that by siding with the tobacco companies.”