Well, welcome senator dick durbin to the committee on oversight and reform, subcommittee on economic and consumer policy. My favorite senior senator from my home state of illinois. He needs no introduction on the advocacy is valiant youth on smoking among and to combat smoking in general. On the author of the ban america, flights in which came into being in 1990, 29 years ago, when he was a member of this house. And at that time, powerful interests in the Tobacco Industry fought his efforts to put this law into place. But now we know the Tremendous Positive impact of that law. And we have senator durbin to thank. And he has been an outstanding advocate on the issue of fighting ecigarettes for youth. So we welcome him to our committee. Without objection, sir, your written statement will be made part of the record. With that, senator durbin, you are now recognized. Senator durbin thank you for holding this important hearing and good to be back in the peoples house and in a hearing. Seems like old times. I know today you are looking at the role of juul and f. D. A. And reached this point where we are facing in the words of the f. D. A. A vaping epidemic. Last year alone, 80 of High School Students vaping and today because of devices like juul and the accompanying kidfriendly flavors, four million children nationwide are vaping. Juul and other ecigarette companies claim it is for adults to quit cigarettes. Heres the starting point. There is no Clinical Trial proving that juul devices help add utilities quit cigarettes. Despite the marketing claims and the paid testimonials, there is no credible medical evidence of juuls most fundamental marketing claim. None. Further, more than 20 of children under the age of 18 are using ecigarettes compared with less than 3 of adults. Juul knows exactly where the money can be found and not from add utilities looking to quit smoking, its kids. The epidemic is an old battle. I wont go into the details, but on friday, november 13, 1959, one week before my 15th birthday i stood at my fats hospital died who died from lung cancer, two packs of camels a day. He was 53 years old. We have had some successes. In 1987 in my third term in the house, second term on the appropriations committee, i suck iffully an appropriations amendment banning smoking on 80 of Airline Flights in the united states. It was a major miracle. No one expected this young congressman from illinois with the opposition of both Republican Leadership to pass this measure on the floor. What they failed to understand is the house of representatives is the largest frequent flyer club in america and second sick smoke. Smoke. Condhand the bill was signed into law by president reagan, they called my intrusion on individual rights. You may have echoes of this. It was the first step. I didnt realize that eliminating this inconvenience was a tipping point. But it was. It turned out that a lot of people thought if secondhappened smoke is dangerous on a plane, why isnt it dangerous in a theater, restaurant or bowling alley. We made cigarettes more expensive with taxes. That is the single greatest deterrent to children turning to cigarettes. We dumped joe camel and the marlboro man. We prohibited kidfriendly flavor like strawberry and grape and since these historic changes, the percentage of youth smokers declined from 28 in the year 2000 to less than 8 today. Anyone who believed that the multibillion dollar industry would go quietly ignored the power of their greed. Losing their market share, big tobacco put their marketters to work. First they needed a new product that didnt carry the moral taint of cancer causing tobacco. F it looked like a usb flash drive. They needed a campaign that included an unproven positive health claim such as juuls current make the switch slogan. Ey relied on 12. 8 billion investment from an old stand by, formerly known as phillip morris. They needed a special strategy focused on kids because they knew that children for a variety of reasons, the more susceptible new users of products, it worked with cigarettes and was going to work with juul and vaping. How did they lure the kids . I have a bag full of them here, all of the different flavors. But they include fruit medley, gummy bear, whipped cream, union corn poop, razz will berry and cotton candy. Tell me that is about add utilities switching from cigarettes and vaping. They needed the food and Drug Administration to look the other ay as their empire mushroomed. Unform the f. D. A. Has been happy to serve. Delaying commonsense legislation by years refusing to remove illegal products in the market and standing silent in the falls health claim by juul. I have made it clear to the acting administrator that f. D. A. s hapless spectatorship has to come to an end. So what has been the result of big tobacco combined with the f. D. A. s abject failure to regulate the industry. Between 2017 and 2018, the number of teenagers increased by 40 . This was the largest single year increase in tobacco use ever. Thats right. All of our significant hardearned gains to reduce are being reversed because of juul. And all of the fullpaged juul ads decrying children, you know where you see them, you see them the hill, roll call washington times. When we said lay off the kids, they bought fullpaged ads saying we dont want kids to Smoke Cigarettes. How many kids get up in the morning to read the wall street journal . This is a pure campaign, once by big tobacco to try to say they have a Business Model that isnt directed at kids. The facts tell us otherwise. I urgeat todays vaping, to crack down on ecigarette kidfriendly flavors. Im joined by senator murkowski. Our safe kids act would give the Companies One year. Companies would have to prove that their products help add utility cigarette smokers to quit, they have to prove that their product doesnt harm and they would have to prove their products do not cause children to start nicotine. If the bill moves this year, its imperative that the legislation includes strong provisions to crack down on kidfriendly ecigarette flavors that are addicting our kids. As someone who lost his father as a kid, i hoped that ecigarettes would prove to be a Smoking Cessation for adults. There is no proof. The candy dessert families are causing children to develop this addiction than hepping add utilities stop smoking study. It leads to 81 new smokers for every one smoker who quits. According to the twuth initiative 1517yearolds are 60 times more likely to use juul. A recent study published in the american journal of the medical association, they are three times more likely to go on to Smoke Cigarettes and consider this, juul is widely popular with kids and accounts for 70 of ecigarette sales in the united states. Make no mistake, juul now partnered with the Tobacco Industry is driving this epidemic as they come before this committee. Congress waited far too long to start protecting children. History is now repeating itself. Our inaction combined with f. D. A. s come placensy is dooming a new generation of children. Most parents care when their teenager is lost in a cloud of vape smoke. I look forward to work with you on a bicameral crisis to address this epidemic. I never dreamed after taking cigarette smoking off of airplanes that in my third term in the house that i had a chance to win, but i did. The net result of it because of unforeseen developments was a dramatic change in america in their view towards smoking. We stepped in and took on big tobacco. The question is can we work with bipartisan political will to take on big vaping now for the benefit of the young people sitting behind me and those across america. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Thank you very much, senator durbin for that eloquent statement and thank you for your lifelong efforts to combat nicotine use. I want to thank the panelists and the time you took to be here. Part 2 of this very, very important hearing is tomorrow when we have the founder of juul before us at 2 00 p. M. In this very same room. I ask unanimous consent to insert the following items into the official record of the hearing. Fell tements from dr. Sheer of stanford university, a statement from president of teach teens against vaping and a letter from the university of california, irvine. Hearing no objection, so ordered. We are adjourned. 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The cofounder and chief product amongr of juul labs was those testifying at this reform subCommittee Hearing. Delay. Subcommittee will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the subcommittee at any time. This hearing is titled examining juuls role in the youth epidemic part two. I want to address the spectators
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