Political Quotes

“The bill protects our communities with other strong steps, including prohibiting companies from marketing e- cigarettes to youth under age 21. Ninety-five percent of adult smokers start before age 21, and those who do not begin smoking by their early twenties are unlikely to start. Group after group is demanding action. More than 75 organizations-- from the American Academy of Pediatrics to the American Federation of Teachers, to the National Association of School Nurses, to the Society of Thoracic Surgeons--recently wrote: ``This legislation will address the current youth e-cigarette epidemic that is undermining the progress made in reducing youth tobacco use.'' We had all of the tobacco-free kids there lined up in their T-shirts. These little children know better than some of us in this Chamber how dangerous these e-cigarettes are to our young children, especially those in middle school who are so very young and that we see evidence of. Now, let me just say, in our own community in San Francisco, Juul came in with a proposal, and they were selling it as if this is the way we are going to stop young children from smoking. We are going to have them smoke e-cigarettes, and we are going to do this and that. It was a total fraudulent campaign. Some of us just stepped forward and said: This is wrong.…”