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Katie Couric Sits Down With Dr. David Kessler To Discuss Anti-Smoking Legislation
Jump to full article: CBS, 2009-06-13
Author: June 11, 2009
Intro: A: It is very historic, Katie. It's a landmark piece of legislation. For the first time, we have the opportunity to regulate this deadly, addictive product.
Q: The nation's biggest cigarette maker, Phillip Morris, supports this bill. That seems a bit counter-intuitive. What does Phillip Morris have to gain by this?
A: I was a little nervous. Here we worked for 15 years for this legislation - they fought us all along the way. They fought us very hard. And then they switched. Then they backed the legislation. I think they understood that the 50 years that they deceived the American public, they deny the addictiveness of the product - that just was not going to work.
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the last number of years have been hard on the F.D.A., but I think this is a shot in the arm. I think this will help the agency, you know, be the most important consumer protection agency that it's been for the last 100 years. This will save lives, Katie.
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