Mike Enzi: “I was fascinated to note that one of the people interviewed in this, one of the professors at GW is the person who…”

“I was fascinated to note that one of the people interviewed in this, one of the professors at GW is the person who founded ASH, the Action on Smoking and Health group, that I know from my days as mayor of Gillette has been very active in discouraging smoking, and their advocacy has been on antismoking ads. I ask the Senator if he reflects a little bit on what the effect of the antismoking ads might be. They went to ads; they went to billboards. I have a plastic sign in my office that thanks visitors for not smoking. They also had a number of very clever slogans. I am not sure whether the Senator might have heard them. Some of them were very disgusting and had people in disgusting situations that were smoking, all to curb, particularly, teen smoking. I think that has had some effect. It had some effect on members of my family. I think that it did help to cut down some of the teen smoking. But I would like to ask you what you think the effects on doing the antismoking would--how well those would work on particularly teenagers as opposed to, or in conjunction with--whichever way you would care to answer it--a rise in price of tobacco?”