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Tom Price: “I try to bring posters, because when I look at something like this it really drives the issue home and brings it much…”

On the recordOctober 31, 2007
I try to bring posters, because when I look at something like this it really drives the issue home and brings it much more clear to me. But this is what you have mentioned that is so true, and the bill that was passed, as you said, would require 22 million new smokers, new smokers, that means from 2010 to 2017, 22 new Americans would have to start smoking. This is the number of folks that would have to begin smoking just in order to pay for the program.
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Tom Price
Georgia

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Discussing the implications of a bill related to smoking and public health.

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