Chair Lyons and members of the committee, My name is Anthony Lamorena, and I am a government affairs associate for the R Street Institute, a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy research organization. Our mission is to engage in policy research and outreach to promote free markets and limited, effective government in many areas, including tobacco harm reduction, and that is why SB 24 is of special interest to us. Here at the R Street Institute, we are very cognizant of the adverse impact of combustible cigarettes. We have long supported raising the legal age to buy tobacco products to 21, enf...