Orrin Hatch

Is the Senator aware of the Congressional Budget Office report reviewing many of the same studies relied upon in the earlier 1994 Institute of Medicine study, and in the 1994 Surgeon General's report entitled ``Preventing Tobacco Use Among…

Having set out the 1998 IOM study, I compare its tone and ask the Senator if he agrees with the April 1998 CBO report called ``The Proposed Tobacco Settlement: Issue From a Federal Perspective?'' Now, this CBO paper examines the literature…

The CBO catalogued a wide range of elasticity and reports, ``Most findings are on the high side of the range.'' However, the Congressional Budget Office next cites two studies based on the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey…

Let me just bring to the distinguished Senator's attention that during that same period of smoking decline in Canada, U.S. youth smoking decreased by 40 percent without a price increase. So much for the reasons that price is the only…

I have one final concern with the chart that was used by our distinguished friend from Massachusetts on Canadian tobacco use and price. As I said, that chart ended in 1991. When you look from 1991 on, Canadian imports to our country went…

Well, I am disappointed that some of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle are so ready to support a new tax-and-spend program supposedly aimed at children but weighing so heavily on the backs of addicted, low-income adult workers…

Now, the Judiciary Committee--I am sure the Senator is aware of this, too--heard testimony that most of these cigarettes, on that peak, that were imported into the United States were smuggled back into Canada.

Since smugglers do not seek identification or IDs, I suspect youth were able to easily obtain bootleg cigarettes. Keep in mind Mexico's per pack price is 94 cents. Right?

Is the Senator aware that today Barry Meier writes a very compelling article in the New York Times. He says: But with the Senate having begun debate on Monday on tobacco legislation, many experts warn that such predictions are little more…

So the payment would not be affected by whether the excise taxes go up or down. The payments would have to be made over a number of years, all $428 billion of them, which is $60 billion more than in the settlement. Is the Senator aware of…

Well, there was no price increase in that recognition. How, we are being led to believe that price is the answer. It goes further. David Kesler said this: Don't let the simplicity of these proposals fool you. If all elements of the…

In 1996 Secretary Shalala estimated that the 1996 FDA rule would reduce smoking by 50 percent over 7 years? Guess what? There was no price increase in that regulation. Secretary Shalala used the word ``historic''--this is the most…

I think this whole business of trying to prevent kids from smoking being the impetus behind legislation is great politics, but it is nonsense in terms of anything you can put number next to.

Let me ask the Senator, if he will, using another chart, our colleague argued last night that the 1993 American price decrease led to more youth smoking. I would call my colleague's attention to the fact that in at least 1 year both price…

Is the Senator aware that actually the British Office for National Statistics reported that the percentage of smokers amongst those 11 to 16 increased by 8 percent despite the healthy price increase?

So it is a stiff increase in penalty, but at least it is at a level where perhaps we can get the companies to come back on board and at least voluntarily agree to the advertising protocols, consent protocols, and voluntarily agree to the…

Is the Senator aware of the approach that I have been trying to take toward this, that we believe it should be a payment schedule. There would still be excise taxes. We think it should be a payment schedule that the tobacco companies meet…

Unconstitutional both on the advertising restrictions, which of course that is what the FDA regulations call for, and on the look-back provisions? Just to mention two.

We have had witnesses from the left and the right, constitutional experts, come before our committee and say that, basically, without a voluntary consent protocol or a voluntary consent decree with the companies on board, that…

Does the Senator remember Floyd Abrams, leading first amendment expert in this country, in my opinion and I think in the opinion of most people, from the left to the right, in his statement: Any legislation of Congress which would purport…

Is the Senator aware that Judge Robert Bork said on January 16, 1996: The recent proposal of the FDA to restrict severely the first amendment rights of American companies and individuals who in one way or another have any connection with…

Isn't it a wonderful thing that the commerce bill, or should I say the managers' amendment, has done that which nobody else has ever been able to do in the history of this country; that is, bring together the ACLU and Robert Bork on this…

He is not alone. I venture to say that any constitutional expert who tries to contradict what these gentlemen have said is going to be in severe jeopardy of losing his or her reputation. Is the Senator aware that this whole push to raise…

Is the Senator aware of another position this Senator has, and I think many others as well, and that is that if this bill passes in its current form and is not constitutional, that there will be at least 10 years of effective litigation by…

Since the tobacco companies cut their prices to wipe out the tax increases, these public health scientists attributed the success of the tobacco control program in Massachusetts to other components of the comprehensive program. Is the…