Frank Pallone: “Well, the scary thing, of course, is not only what has been mentioned, but also we can be sure, I think they may have…”

“Well, the scary thing, of course, is not only what has been mentioned, but also we can be sure, I think they may have already announced it but even if they have not, we can be sure that in the next few weeks we are going to see a massive amount of money spent by the tobacco industry on trying to persuade the American people that movement on the tobacco bill is not the right thing here in this Congress. So now that they have decided to withdraw from any further negotiations to come to an agreement on a tobacco settlement, they are simply going to go out and spend millions and millions of dollars, I do not know how much, trying to persuade the public that we should not move the bill. And I worry about the impact of that. I still believe that the public is so disgusted because of what has happened and what they have seen the industry do and the documents that have come out over the last 6 months that they will not be swayed by this multimillion dollar advertising campaign, because they are going to certainly make their best of it. And I would hope that that ultimately does not sway a lot of Members of this body.”