The subcommittee on oversight and investigations hearing will now come to order. Today the committee is holding a hearing entitled sounding the alarm the Public Health crisis of cigarettes. The purpose is to examine the Public Health impacts the regulatory authorities related to key cigarette manufacturing sales and use. The chair now recognizes for purposes of an opening statement. Our country is facing a serious Public Health epidemic one that is causing severe harm. It will examine the cost of the epidemic and the uncontrolled rising use of e. Cigarettes lifethreatening illnesses and the use of products we must work to protect the American People from the misunderstanding about these products. The data is clear over the past several years, we have seen an unacceptably high proportion of people facing nicotine addiction. This year alone more than 27 of High Schoolers report they are using ecigarettes or vaping as it is also known. 2011 to 2015, there was a 900 increase, 900 increase
Subcommittee on oversight and investigations hearing will now come to order. Today the committee is holding a hearing entitled sounding the alarm, the Health Threats of ecigarette. The purpose oftodays hearing to examine the Public Health impact and regulatory authorities related to ecigarette manufacturing , sales and use. The chair recognizes herself for purposes of an opening statement. Our country is facing a serious public epidemic. One that is causing severe harm. This hearing will examine the cause of that epidemic, the uncontrolled and rising use of ecigarette and lifethreatening illnesses ripped the country and the use of ecigarette products young people sort, we must act to protect the American People from the myths and misunderstandings about these products. First, the data is now clear. Over the past several years seen an unacceptably high proportion of young people facing nicotine addiction. This year alone, more than 27 percent of High Schoolers report using ecigarette or
Committee chair chuck grassley, former fda commissioner Scott Gottlieb and others. [ applause ] hi, everyone. Thank you for coming. And thanks to pfizer for sponsoring the event. Just to reiterate, if youre into hash tags, go ahead and use axios 360 and we can have fun on the social networks together. And if youre also inclined, go to signup. Axios. Com to get our news letters, especially vitals, written by my colleague, Caitlyn Owens. We try to keep things short and light. And real quick, logistic, if youve never been to one of our events before, we try to keep things short and sweet. Four segments of interviews. We want you leaving here feeling smarter about what we talked about. And this in particular is about drug pricing in america, which obviously will continue to be an issue going into 2020. So with that in mind, id like to welcome our first guest, senator chuck grassley. [ applause ] good to be with you, bob. Thanks for coming. All right. I think its only its a good place to st
Culture, the idea of seeing the man in front of the tank, many of us have all seen that, at least if your speedy we believe this hearing to go live to discussion from axios on Prescription Drug prices. Well hear from Senate Finance amity church are progressing but first former fda commissioner Scott Gottlieb and later senator Debbie Stabenow of michigan. This is live coverage on cspan2. And real quick, it could have been to one of our events before, we try to keep things short and sweet, four segments of interviews. We want you leaving here feeling smarter about what we talked about, and this particular is what drug pricing in america which obviously will continue to be an issue going into 2020. So with that in mind i like to welcome our first guest, senator chuck grassley. [applause] good to be here with you, bob. Thanks for coming. All right. I think its only, its a good place to start by talking about your constituents. What are they still telling you about their own drug prices in
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