Orrin Hatch: “Let's look more closely at the 1994 IOM study which is the basis of the 1998 IOM study. A fair reading of this 1994 IOM…”

“Let's look more closely at the 1994 IOM study which is the basis of the 1998 IOM study. A fair reading of this 1994 IOM study seems far less definitive than is being portrayed by some in this debate. On page 187 of the 1994 Institute of Medicine study, it says: Only a few studies have examined the question of whether cigarette price increases affect teenagers differently than adults. It then reviewed the only three studies done to that point in the United States. It found relatively high price elasticities in two of these studies but noted that the third study, the second National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, "failed to find a statistically significant effect of cigarette prices on cigarette smoking in youths age 12 through 17." Is the Senator aware of that?”