Orrin Hatch: “So the data that is not so categorical as being portrayed by the proponents of this amendment. In fact, the 1994 IOM…”

“So the data that is not so categorical as being portrayed by the proponents of this amendment. In fact, the 1994 IOM report noted the conflict, not the consensus, in the data. It noted that that requires further study. On page 188 of the IOM study, it says this: The conflicting results of the few U.S. studies have examined the impact of cigarette prices on consumption by adolescents, including possible substitution of smokeless tobacco products in response to higher cigarette prices, reinforce the need for new research to assess the potential for using higher tobacco taxes to deter adolescent tobacco use. Is the Senator aware of that?”