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Die. we need solutions, not just prohibitions on safe products. >> how did people get off smoking before this? >> nicotine gum, patch, lozenge, cold turkey. from 2003 to 2009, the adult smoking rate stagnated. even through a recession with a cigarette tax hike. >> do you have kids? >> the smoking rate barely went down. no, i do not. >> if you had kids -- >> i don't care if you have kids or not. would you let your kids vape. no, right? >> no, like i wouldn't let them smoke or use marijuana in any form. i would parent them if i had children. that does not mean because some parents are not preven...

Now. >> i don't know. i haven't studied that. >> it's on the table? >> no one is -- no, i wouldn't say it's on the table. we are going to have a hearing on assault weapons and witnesses and members of the committee can raise whatever they want with respect to assault weapons. the primary focus is to have an assault weapons ban. and that's what -- but people can raise whatever they want about that. >> chairman, i threw a lot at you tonight. i appreciate it. friday the 13th living up to its name. thank you. i look forward to have you on going forward. another battle looming in the country may ...

They can use work specifically for kids in terms of enticing them to get into the habit. >> once again, yale school of public health, national bureau of public research, if you ban flavors you increase smoking. the most popular favors for adult are sweet and fruits. when you look at the 2.5, 3 million ex-smokers created because of vaping, they are using non-tobacco -- >> you are saying kids will smoke unless they vape? >> what we have seen as vaping has increased, we don't want youth to vape. they reality is they experiment. we saw the largest decrease in teen smoking -- >> but the question is...

Die. we need solutions, not just prohibitions on safe products. >> how did gpeople get off smoking before this? >> nicotine gum, patch, lozenge, cold turkey. from 2003 to 2009, the adult smoking rate stagnated. even through a recession with a cigarette tax hike. >> do you have kids? >> the smoking rate barely went down. no, i do not. >> if you had kids -- >> i don't care if you have kids or not. would you let your kids vape. no, right? >> no, like i wouldn't let them smoke or use marijuana in any form. i would parent them if i had children. that does not mean because some parents are not preve...

Juul marketing outwardly, that made this thing cool like we saw with tobacco. there are reasons that we put the prohibitions on tobacco we did and you don't have them. you can throw concerts. you guys can front things. tobacco can't. >> let's talk. let's talk about restricting marketing. fine. let's talk about restricting favor names, restrictin restric packaging. why are we talking about prohibiting a -- >> that's a problem, too. we put warnings on cigarettes. you don't have any warnings. why do you have to be forced to do things that you should do? >> we do have warnings. >> do you have a wa...