what was david kessler's role in promoting anti smoking efforts? he was a very important partner in the administration to publicize the dangers associated with smoking. he issued a number of reports and he's the person that really brought to the public's attention for the first time that tobacco companies were deliberately manipulating the levels of nicotine in cigarets and they were doing it in order to get people more addicted because they found that nicotine was an addictive substance. when he testified in front of the waxman subcommittee, he talked about cigarets as being a high technology delivery systems and showed how the technology was built into the cigarets to expose smokers to nicotine and get them more addicted. he also disclosed in r.j. reynolds patent try to more than double nicotine levels in their to tobacco products. now, you mentioned earlier that 30 to 40% of the american public in 1994 was smoking. did those hearings impact smoking trends? so, mr. waxman held hearings over 25 year period. describe the health hazards associated w