Tabakindustrie 1994 - Tobacco Company CEOs Testify Before Congress — Transcript
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- 0:00let me begin my question on matter of
- 0:03whether or not nicotine is addictive let
- 0:05me ask you first I'd like to just go
- 0:07down the row whether each of you
- 0:09believes that nicotine is not addictive
- 0:13I heard virtually all of you touch on it
- 0:15just yes or no do you believe nicotine
- 0:17is not addictive I believe nicotine is
- 0:20not addictive yes mr. Johnston
- 0:23congressman cigarettes and nicotine
- 0:25clearly do not meet the classic
- 0:28definitions of addiction there is no no
- 0:32and again time is short if you could
- 0:34just I think each of you believe
- 0:36nicotine is not addictive we just would
- 0:38like to have this for the record I don't
- 0:40believe that nicotine or our products
- 0:42are addictive
- 0:58dr. Campbell I assume that you're aware
- 1:00that your testimony and you said in your
- 1:03testimony that nicotine is not addictive
- 1:05is contradicted by an overwhelming
- 1:07number of authorities and associations
- 1:10for example in 1988 the Surgeon General
- 1:13of the United States wrote an entire
- 1:14report on this topic the Surgeon General
- 1:18of course is the chief health adviser to
- 1:20our government I assume you have
- 1:22reviewed that report yes I have sir
- 1:32you
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