Mike Enzi: “The bill we are debating is the 753-page one, which miraculously appears on our desks, even though the 482-page bill…”

“The bill we are debating is the 753-page one, which miraculously appears on our desks, even though the 482-page bill, which has significant revisions in it, isn't available to us without a special request, and this appears to be the official version. But whether it is 753 pages or 482 pages, it is a great deal for us to cover, even with all of the help of our staffs. So I am curious as to whether the Senator feels that there is an adequate coverage of all types of tobacco done in this? We keep talking about cigarettes. When I was growing up, there was a period of time when my dad thought cigarettes were pretty high, so he rolled his own. It is kind of a western tradition. You get a little pack of Bull Durham and some cigarette papers. Today, people would probably think you were using illegal drugs if they saw you doing that. We are phrasing this in that form, anyway. People might go back to rolling their own. But they take this thin piece of paper and put a little dip in it--I watched him do this so many times, but I have not smoked--and then he put the tobacco in there and he had to lick the piece of paper and fold it over, and that thin paper would then stick, and it would have the semblance of a somewhat cruddy cigarette. I suspect that even though cigarettes are not healthy, they were probably more unhealthy.…”