and now it is my great honor to welcome my very good friend and colleague, the fda commissioner dr. peggy hamburg. [applause] >> thank the. thank you very much, howard. it is really a pleasure to be here. thank you, george washington university, for welcoming us here, and think the madame secretary and dr. koh for your leadership on this public health issue. as has already been so eloquently pointed out, the strategic plan has won over arching objective, to make the suffering, the disease, and the death caused by tobacco use part of america's past, not part of america's future. that is why congress passed and president obama signed a family smoking prevention and tobacco control act, and why the fda has been working so i hard so it. many of you are familiar with the tax we have taken to date, and the secretary mentioned some of the important ones. we banned the sale of candy and fruit flavored cigarettes. we have prevented cigarette advertising with misleading terms. we are required the tobacco industry to provide us with lists of product ingredients. this past summer, the fda issued a nu

and now it is my great honor to welcome my very good friend and colleague, the fda commissioner dr. peggy hamburg. [applause] >> thank the. thank you very much, howard. it is really a pleasure to be here. thank you, george washington university, for welcoming us here, and think the madame secretary and dr. koh for your leadership on this public health issue. as has already been so eloquently pointed out, the strategic plan has won over arching objective, to make the suffering, the disease, and the death caused by tobacco use part of america's past, not part of america's future. that is why congress passed and president obama signed a family smoking prevention and tobacco control act, and why the fda has been working so i hard so it. many of you are familiar with the tax we have taken to date, and the secretary mentioned some of the important ones. we banned the sale of candy and fruit flavored cigarettes. we have prevented cigarette advertising with misleading terms. we are required the tobacco industry to provide us with lists of product ingredients. this past summer, the fda issued a nu

and now it is my great honor to welcome my very good friend and colleague, the fda commissioner dr. peggy hamburg. [applause] >> thank the. thank you very much, howard. it is really a pleasure to be here. thank you, george washington university, for welcoming us here, and think the madame secretary and dr. koh for your leadership on this public health issue. as has already been so eloquently pointed out, the strategic plan has won over arching objective, to make the suffering, the disease, and the death caused by tobacco use part of america's past, not part of america's future. that is why congress passed and president obama signed a family smoking prevention and tobacco control act, and why the fda has been working so i hard so it. many of you are familiar with the tax we have taken to date, and the secretary mentioned some of the important ones. we banned the sale of candy and fruit flavored cigarettes. we have prevented cigarette advertising with misleading terms. we are required the tobacco industry to provide us with lists of product ingredients. this past summer, the fda issued a nu

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