Political Quotes

“Mr. President, in the Senate last year we passed the childproofing of caps on liquid nicotine. That legislation just passed today in the House and will go to the President for signature. This is important because we found that these bottles of liquid nicotine for these e-cigarettes, or electronic cigarettes, have not been childproofed. Therefore, if a child gets one of these bottles and it does not have the cap that they can't get off, we now know the experience from several poison centers across the country in the last couple of years. If a drop of that liquid nicotine gets onto the child's skin or, as infants typically do, they put things in their mouth and they ingest that liquid nicotine, indeed it is fatal. We have had a couple of fatalities in this country. Therefore, it was common sense for us to require--and thankfully, the liquid nicotine industry went along and did not object--to make these childproof. But that will now be in the law. Let me point out something. This is aside from the question of whether you should be inhaling this stuff in an e- cigarette. I think people are finding out that this is becoming quite dangerous as well. But aside from that issue, this was the issue of protecting children. Look at this. It has pictures of fruit all over the label, and it is called ``Juicy ejuice.'' It is something that is going to attract an infant's or a child's attention. It is the same thing over here. It has pictures of all kinds of happy things.…”