dr. tim mcafee of the cdc office on smoking and health, mr. mrs. heller of the fda's center for tobacco parts to talk about the ongoing public health challenge posed by both. they will also report on the board community-based and regulatory work in those agencies that are engaged in this. and now i will turn to senator alexander for his opening statement. >> thank you, mr. chairman. welcome to the witnesses. congress passed the law to which senator harkin referred, the family smoking prevention and tobacco control act almost five years ago. it clearly was taking a position to discourage the use of tobacco products. what has happened since then, run 18 percent of adults still smokes cigarettes, that is down from 20% in 2010. smoking among youth continues to decline. electronic cigarettes have grown rapidly. the number of adult smokers who tried e-cigarette doubled between 2010 and 11. i am going to focus mostly on the so-called teaming regulation proposed two weeks ago by the fda, but i did want to first read some statistics about the center for tob