Frank Pallone: “No question about it. I would point out, and I do not always like to use polls, because I do not think we should be…”

“No question about it. I would point out, and I do not always like to use polls, because I do not think we should be driven here necessarily by polls, but once again, as with so many issues that have been part of our Democratic agenda over this Congress, this is an issue that the American people strongly support. They want us to try to curtail youth smoking. They think it is a very important issue. The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids just did a recent telephone survey, and I am not going to get into all the details, but almost all the respondents, and they had a thousand adults who were randomly surveyed, almost all of the respondents expressed concern about tobacco used by kids. A large majority believed Congress should address this issue in the next few months, in the next 6 months. Also, there was tremendous support for the specifics with regard to cutting back on youth smoking that the President put forward in his tobacco proposal.”