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On the recordApril 21, 1998
I know the gentleman is aware, after years of denying, I think really flat out lying about their attempts to hook children, we now know through the documents that the judges are forcing these tobacco companies to reveal to the public, after they get every big bucks lawyer in the country to go to every court of appeal and do everything they can to keep those documents secret, the documents are finally becoming to come out to show, as we found out in the State of Texas, they are targeting kids in elementary school to try to find out what would be the most effective way to hook them to nicotine. And once hooked, like to any other dangerous lethal drugs, many of these children are unable to leave the nicotine habit, and that has a tremendous effect on, really, as the gentleman described it, a public health epidemic in this country.
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Lloyd Doggett
Democratic · Texas

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Addressing the issue of tobacco companies targeting children in a public health context.

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