One was a tax on e cigarettes because they are becoming a major issue in schools with young people. What adult buys bubble gum flavored cigarettes. They are marketed to young people that we couldn't get through. My committee put a tax on opioid producers feeling that they made the money off of opioids and in some cases knowingly. and that they. We are looking at decades of costs, the damage to individuals, to families. We are going to be paying that cleanup cost for a long time and. (40:46–41:00)
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