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On the recordJuly 23, 2019
The speed at which this has evolved reminds me sometime of the opioid crisis or things like that where we have seen products have consequences we didn't really initially understand.
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Tom Cole
Republican · Oklahoma

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Cole compares the rapid evolution of vaping products to the opioid crisis.

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