Orrin Hatch: “Rather, he echoed the President's position. He referred to prices as one of the most cost-effective, short-term…”

“Rather, he echoed the President's position. He referred to prices as one of the most cost-effective, short-term strategies to reduce youth smoking. Will the Senator help me to understand their failure to be advocates, if the evidence is, as our colleague from Massachusetts said, ``overwhelming and powerful''? More recently, my colleague and I attended a Judiciary Committee hearing to determine if it is possible to design a plan to keep kids from smoking. Is the Senator aware of this? Dr. Greg Connally, head of the Massachusetts drug control program, testified that the remarkable success of the Massachusetts program in reducing by 30 percent cigarette consumption in the 18- to 24-year-olds was because of the clean air indoor legislation and advertising. Is the Senator aware of that?”