Orrin Hatch: “Let me just finish this. What is more, according to these experts, we will reach this twice as high level twice as fast…”

“Let me just finish this. What is more, according to these experts, we will reach this twice as high level twice as fast as called for by the President. I guess we should ask whether the American public understands that what we may actually be talking about under the Commerce Committee bill is a $50-per-carton price for cigarettes. Now, if you are like me, and do not, and will not, ever smoke, this may not seem so bad, literally; but I just hope that the public health lobby does not next focus its attention on the problem of obesity, or we may have chocolate ice cream at $20 a gallon, a $10 package of potato chips, or a $5 slice of apple pie, sold by prescription no doubt, if we continue to follow this type of bureaucratic reasoning. Is the Senator in disagreement with me on this? And I didn't even talk about cheeseburgers!”