[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 6 (Monday, January 11, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S19]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                            Liquid Nicotine

  Mr. NELSON. Mr. President, in the Senate last year we passed the 
childproofing of caps on liquid nicotine. That legislation just passed 
today in the House and will go to the President for signature. This is 
important because we found that these bottles of liquid nicotine for 
these e-cigarettes, or electronic cigarettes, have not been 
childproofed. Therefore, if a child gets one of these bottles and it 
does not have the cap that they can't get off, we now know the 
experience from several poison centers across the country in the last 
couple of years. If a drop of that liquid nicotine gets onto the 
child's skin or, as infants typically do, they put things in their 
mouth and they ingest that liquid nicotine, indeed it is fatal.
  We have had a couple of fatalities in this country. Therefore, it was 
common sense for us to require--and thankfully, the liquid nicotine 
industry went along and did not object--to make these childproof. But 
that will now be in the law. Let me point out something. This is aside 
from the question of whether you should be inhaling this stuff in an e-
cigarette. I think people are finding out that this is becoming quite 
dangerous as well. But aside from that issue, this was the issue of 
protecting children.
  Look at this. It has pictures of fruit all over the label, and it is 
called ``Juicy ejuice.'' It is something that is going to attract an 
infant's or a child's attention. It is the same thing over here. It has 
pictures of all kinds of happy things. I have seen others that have 
labels of juicy fruit. I have seen others that have multicolored labels 
that are very attractive. Common sense tells us if you are putting a 
product out that can kill children--just like some of the soaps that 
are put out for washing detergent in these little plastic bags that 
disintegrate when they get into water in your dishwasher or in your 
washing machine, and it smells so good, and they are grape scents--a 
child smells that and it feels so good and it is so soft. Where is it 
going to end up in an infant? They are going to put it in their mouth. 
We have had some deaths there. But that is another battle for another 
day. At least we have won one little battle.
  I am happy to report to the Senate that what we passed in the Senate 
in a bipartisan manner last year now passed the House today and will go 
to the President to be signed into law.
  I yield the floor.
  I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. BROWN. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for 
the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.