Frank Lautenberg: “Yesterday I introduced the Tobacco Disclosure and Warning Act. This bill will require tobacco companies to disclose the…”

“Yesterday I introduced the Tobacco Disclosure and Warning Act. This bill will require tobacco companies to disclose the ingredients, including the carcinogens, that exist in cigarettes. Cigarettes are the only consumable product in America today, the only one, whose ingredients are not disclosed. All kinds of food products list all of the ingredients very specifically. I think it is wrong. The public should know what is in the cigarettes. We work hard and invest a lot of resources to stop our kids from doing things like eating lead-based paint or drinking water with lead. We should not let them smoke it. This bill would also require large, blunt and centrally placed health warnings on cigarette packs of the types used in other countries. I look at this one, which is done in Canada. Very clearly, on the black portion here, it says, 'Smoking can kill you.' It is also printed in French to make sure that people understand the threat to their health when they take up smoking. I want to particularly focus on the issue, now, of tobacco advertising and direct it towards the industry's use of Joe Camel.”