cigarettes even middle school kids are vague thing unbeknownst to many parents and the national institute of drug abuse reports that nearly a 3rd of teens who start using east cigarettes begin smoking traditional tobacco products within 6 months they think is a story we've been covering ever since i came to our team america almost 4 years ago we've reported on lawsuits against manufacturers of electronic cigarettes that have exploded and more recently the u.s. house of representatives passed the reversing the youth tobacco epidemic act which seeks to ban sales of all flavored vapor and tobacco products in a statement the food and drug administration predicts that banning menthol the last allowable flavor in cigarettes and banning all flavors and cigars will help save lives particularly among those disproportionately affected by these deadly products who are those disproportionately affected and with menthol accounting for one 3rd of all cigarette sales how will big tobacco fight back let's ask attorney sara papen tonio of the. evan papen tonio rafferty law firm sarah right off the bat this looks conten

cigarettes even middle school kids are vague thing unbeknownst to many parents and the national institute of drug abuse reports that nearly a 3rd of teens who start using e's cigarettes begin smoking traditional tobacco products within 6 months they ping is a story we've been covering ever since i came to our to america almost 4 years ago we've reported on lawsuits against manufacturers of electronic cigarettes that have exploded and more recently the u.s. house of representatives passed the reversing the youth tobacco epidemic act which seeks to ban sales of all flavored vapor and tobacco products in a statement the food and drug administration predicts that banning menthol the last allowable flavor in cigarettes and banning all flavors and cigars will help save lives particularly among those disproportionately affected by these deadly products who are those disproportionately affected and with menthol. accounting for one 3rd of all cigarette sales how will big tobacco fight back let's ask attorney sara papen tonio of the 11 papen tonio rafferty law firm sara right off the bat this looks contentious p

can you tell me what that national institute of drug abuse is doing to address that? dr. collins: there is intense interest and concern, because what was primarily an opiod crisis is now very much becoming a mixed crisis of opioids and stimulus and methamphetamines. i was pleased to see a phase three trial on treatment for methamphetamine addiction which is a combination of injectable and oral and it showed benefit. we had not previously had anything to offer people who were a deck -- addicted. we are running an effort to vaccinate people and i know that sounds odd, but you can immunize against that compound in a way that it would no longer provide anybody much of a benefit if they tried to use it anyway. we are doing that for heroin and for men. -- meth. sen. shaheen: does not work? dr. collins: it will. getting your immune system to make an antibody. in the future, it would not get to your brain. sen. shaheen: i will have to learn more about that. thank you. >> that is interesting. senator kennedy. sen. kennedy: thank you madam chairwoman. dr. fauci, i believe you testif

national institute of allergy and infectious diseases. dr. gary givens, director of the national lungs and blood institute. the director of the national cancer institute and the director of the natural -- national institute on drugs abuse. i want to note that i intend to invite an additional panel of center directors to testify in front of the subcommittee later this year. we were not able to hold a second panel last year due to the pandemic, what i want to make sure that the subcommittee hears from every institute about state -- about its research. the last time dr. collins and the directors were here to testify on the national institutes of health budget was march 4, 2020. there were 128 newly reported covid cases that day and then you cash in the united states, which more than doubled the total number of cases that had been identified to date. later that day, the house would pass the first covid supplemental bill which included over $800 million to support nih on basic research, diagnostics, treatment, and vaccines. today, over 14 months later, the congress has provided over $4.8 billion to support nih research related to covid. based in part on these investments in the partnerships with other agencies in the privat

national institute of allergy and infectious diseases. dr. gary givens, director of the national lungs and blood -- heart, lungs, and blood institute. the director of the national cancer institute and the director of the national institute on drugs abuse. -- on drug abuse. i want to note that i intend to invite an additional panel of center directors to testify in front of the subcommittee later this year. we were not able to hold a second panel last year due to the pandemic, what i want to make sure that the subcommittee hears from every institute about its research. the last time dr. collins and the directors were here to testify on the national institutes of health budget was march 4, 2020. there were 128 newly reported covid cases that day and then you cash in the united states, which more than doubled the total number of cases that had been identified to date. later that day, the house would pass the first covid supplemental bill which included over $800 million to support nih on basic research, diagnostics, treatment, and vaccines. today, over 14 months later, the congress has provided over $4.8 billion to support nih research related to covid. based in part on these investments in the partnerships with other agencies in the pri