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Tweet - "Thanks to @CongressmanRaja for inviting me to testify at today's hearing about youth vaping. Most parents care when their teenager is lost in a cloud of vape smoke. Does Congress? Does this Administration? We have to act to curb this e-cigarette epidemic."

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Date: July 24, 2019
Issues: Health and Health Care

"Thanks to @CongressmanRaja for inviting me to testify at today's hearing about youth vaping.

Most parents care when their teenager is lost in a cloud of vape smoke. Does Congress? Does this Administration? We have to act to curb this e-cigarette epidemic."

"JUUL and other e-cigarette companies like to claim that their products are only meant for adult smokers looking to quit cigarettes, but a look at the facts quickly dispels that notion."

"For one, there are no clinical trials proving that JUUL helps adults quit smoking cigarettes. None."

"Despite all the marketing claims and all the paid testimonials, there is no credible medical evidence of JUUL's most fundamental claim. None."

"Instead, these devices--and the candy, dessert, and fruit flavors--are causing children to develop a nicotine addiction at far greater rates than they are helping adults quit smoking cigarettes."

"I have made clear to Acting FDA Commissioner Sharpless--and Commissioner Gottlieb before him--that FDA's hapless spectatorship must come to an end, whether by law, regulation, court order, or discovering the political will to get off the sidelines."

@SenatorDurbin


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