Senate Proceeding 06-02-09 on Jun 2nd, 2009 :: 1:40:45 to 1:49:20
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Speech By: Bill Nelson

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Bill Nelson: quorum call: e presiding officer: the senator from nor floridament mr. knel unanimous consent the quorum call be lifted. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. nelson: mr. president, i want to speak on the tab crow -- the tobacco control act. it has been said on

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Bill Nelson: over and over, and i just want to reassert, that tobacco the leading preventable cause of death in the united states and it kills more than 400,000 americans each year. i mean, that's just -- that's

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Bill Nelson: just staggering. we think of all the deaths by automo killing a million people a year. an additional dying because of exposure to

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Bill Nelson: secondhand smoke. i'll never forget, when i was a kid flyin was back in the days that people smoked on airplanes - come off of the airplane and i'd smell the coat sleeve of my coat

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Bill Nelson: and it would be total tobacco smoke. well, break it down for my state of florida -- 28,000 people die each just in my state alone from tobacco-related illnesses. and despite the risk involved

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Bill Nelson: with tobacco americans -- that's almost 40 million people -- still smoke ciga now, you know, it's tough to break the habit. fortunately i've never been a smoker, but i understand people

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Bill Nelson: who are and i think one of them is our president. it's tough to break the habit. and i was with him a lot during the campaign because he was in my state campaigning, and he'd break out that pack of nicorette chewing gum. and i mean, he'd go to work on that chewing and more power and more credit

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Bill Nelson: to the this habit. and it's tough. and here's what's sad is that nearly 90% of the smokers began as children and addicted by the time they were

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Bill Nelson: adults. and it's estimated that 3,500 children try gets fo try cigarettes for the first time each day. and each day, a thousand children in this country become regular now, it would really be something if we could change that.

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Bill Nelson: and look what it would save us in health care costs. we're -- we're getting ready to mark up in this month in the finance committee and in the "help" committee to mark up the big health reform package. just think how much money we could save if we didn't have all

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Bill Nelson: of these deaths according to tobacco usage. and, of course, the health care costs resulting from tobacco use amounts to $96 billion a year.

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Bill Nelson: more than $54 billion which is borne by the federal and you can see, that would be staggering if we had a magic wand and we could stop this health care costs to our country. no wonder are so high. if you look at that and the

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Bill Nelson: addiction to alcohol and all of the health care costs, and y toba unregulated product. and it basically exempt from

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Bill Nelson: requirements to disclose product ingredients and exempt from undergoing product testing. and on manufacturers are able to advertise and market products to youth without necessary restrictions.

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Bill Nelson: now, at least we've stopped the magazine advertisements and the tv advertisements, but have you seen this new kind of candy that is being marketed that is basically to addict children to nicotine? when are we going to put to this?

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Bill Nelson: and so there are a bunch of us that are cosponsoring this bill to give the food and drug administration the authority to regulate the manufacturing, marketing and sale of tobacco products

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Bill Nelson: this legislation would try to restrict youth smoking by restricting access to the tobacco products and prohibit the marketing campaigns that specifically target children. if this is such a bad thing on a consequence on the financial condition of this country, isn't

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Bill Nelson: that something that we ought to stop: targeting to children to get them hooked? because what we find is, so many, as i said dawments aradults are hked when they were children. and th legislation is also

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Bill Nelson: going to try to put a b on consumer full disclosure of the product ingredients, and that would have to be disclosed to the food and drug f.d.a. to mandate the elimination of certain ingredients and additives that are going to be put on there for

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Bill Nelson: consumers. and this bill is going to try to make sure that we get adequate and accurate information out to the public by giving the food and drug administration the authority to restrict tobacco marketing to require stronger

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Bill Nelson: warning labels and to the manufacturer's cims about certain health risks. tobacco use, it costs us billions of dollars in this country and hundreds of thousands of lives.

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Bill Nelson: and now is the time for to us step up and to try to help protect the public dangerous p and the are used to get young people

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Bill Nelson: addicted to tobacco. so i sure hope we're going to be able to pass this bill and pass it fairly quickly this week.