[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 80 (Thursday, June 18, 1998)]
[House]
[Pages H4725-H4726]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  KIDS WILL DIE IF THEY BEGIN SMOKING

  (Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, every day in America, 3,000 
children begin to smoke. 1,000 of those children will die. Yesterday, 
the other body of this Congress gave those children a death notice by 
failing to pass a comprehensive tobacco reform bill supported by 
bipartisan public health groups around the Nation.
  Shame, shame, shame.
  But I will take the time, which I hope my colleagues will do as well, 
to listen to the children. We will bring children from around the 
Nation here to the United States Capitol on Wednesday, June 24, to 
listen to their

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life-and-death stories about how tobacco has impacted their lives, how 
they are crying out for us in the United States Congress to do our job. 
I hope that we in this body will listen to the children and not render 
to the children of America a death notice as they move into the 21st 
century.
  I hope that we will listen; I hope that we will act. We will hear 
from the children here in the United States Congress on June 24. More 
tobacco reform is needed.

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