Drew Johnson: “Clearly we've got laws on the books that say you've got…”

Name: A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3)
Uploaded: 2023-11-22T00:00:00+00:00
Duration: 2 min 3 s
Description: A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3)

“I've fought for [vaping alternatives] for 11 or 12 years now.”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 06:20-06:24

“They [the FDA] allow hundreds of new combustible products every single year.”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 06:55-35:17

“They [the FDA] continue to allow combustible cigarettes.”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 06:55-35:33

“I believe that people make better decisions than government.”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 10:04-10:08

“I believe that people should control their own bodies.”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 10:10-10:14

“I believe that government does too much to interfere in our lives.”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 10:13-10:19

“I've done in my career for the last 20 or 25 years, is working to advance liberty.”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 10:20-10:26

“Vaping is healthier than combustible cigarettes.”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 11:51-11:55

“If we continue to empower the FDA to do things like flavor bands or bands of other products, that ultimately what we're doing is killing…”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 11:54-12:06

“There are special interests who make other tobacco cessation products that donate a heck of a lot more money than vape companies.”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 12:37-12:47

“Those products, as we all know from reading the science, aren't as effective.”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 12:50-12:56

“America is such a powerful voice in the WHO in the UN community, that we should use our power there.”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 15:46-15:55

“There was an effort by the WHO to create an international tobacco tax.”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 16:21-16:27

“Decisions weren't being made based on science, based on fact, based on research.”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 16:50-16:56

“The pharmaceutical company and the Robert Wood Johnson foundation funded almost every single country developing country to go to this…”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 17:05-17:15

“Tobacco Free Kids, you had all these lobbying groups that were also funded by pharmaceutical companies and by Robert Wood Johnson and other…”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 17:16-17:27

“They were actually trying to ban vaping ban, you know, I coast and Zen and snus and everything else that people would use as a way to stop…”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 17:59-18:13

“The WHO, their goal wasn't to stop people from smoking, it was to promote these pharmaceutical products and try to kill any other smoking…”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 18:14-18:28

“The UN's health arm, the WHO, had become captive to pharmaceutical companies.”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 18:36-18:43

“We see that with the FDA here in the States.”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 18:43-18:47

“The teen epidemic of smoking and nicotine use vaping, however nicotine is consumed by teens right now is at the lowest point in history.”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 23:13-23:27

“I think Twitter and other social media has sort of not usurped that, but become another tool for making your voice heard to lawmakers.”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 24:30-24:42

“It's 80, 20 me doing it. I would imagine that would continue.”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 26:11-26:15

“Liquid vaping liquids have been taxed differently than other nicotine products.”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 28:11-28:17

“Cannabis is legal [in Nevada].”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 29:02-29:07

“The drug war has been a huge failure.”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 31:00-31:03

“Attempts to stop vaping and stop non combustible nicotine products have been a huge failure and have cost so many American lives.”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 31:03-31:16

“Nicotine is really no more harmful than caffeine.”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 33:50-33:55

“It's not the nicotine that causes cancer, it's the combustion, the tar that's created when you burn tobacco products or cannabis products.”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 33:54-34:05

“Any nicotine product will kill you, it will cause cancer. And that's just simply, as we all know, not the case.”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 34:15-34:24

“The FDA blocked people from having [a product that would save tens of thousands of American lives every single year].”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 35:07-35:11

“Can I ask you guys some of the. Obviously, I know some of the regulatory issues that the industry is facing, but if you could kind of go…”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 42:26-42:48

“Big Tobacco started buying vape companies.”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 50:05-50:09

“The people who are harmed the most are the people who have the least time, the least knowledge, the least information.”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 51:10-51:18

“We've got a lot of vape support, we've got a lot of vape shops.”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 52:28-52:34

“A lot of the people in my district are like me. More government, leave us alone, sort of small L. Libertarian.”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 52:51-53:03

“The directors [of the FDA] appointed by the administration, by the President, it's sort of, it's his own thing that siloed a bit from…”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 58:26-58:40

“The most effective thing that you can do as a member of Congress is getting on the President's butt about making sure they nominate the…”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 58:52-59:04

“There's so much lobbying that goes on, so much money that changes hands behind the scenes by pharmaceutical companies to the fda.”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 59:48-59:59

“The FDA bureaucracy is comfortable with pharma in a way that they're not with either combustible big tobacco or with vape.”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 1:00:08-1:00:19

“I think the biggest thing that a member of Congress can do is when the President's choosing the fda, head of the fda, asking those questions…”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 1:01:32-1:01:45

“With a better FDA director, there is a real chance to make some big changes pretty immediately.”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 1:03:44-1:03:52

“We've seen at the FDA level things kind of go more your way a few years ago, very temporarily, for a few months.”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 1:04:05-1:04:16

“With every new FDA director, there's an opportunity for things to change.”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 1:04:33-1:04:41

“If you get a bad FDA director for four years or eight years, you're in trouble.”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 1:04:41-1:04:46

“Nevada is one of those [states with no income tax].”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 1:06:11-1:06:14

“Nevada is very fortunate to have gaming because so many of the tourists basically pay a lot of the taxes.”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 1:06:18-1:06:26

“When people die from smoking related illnesses, they die earlier and faster and cheaper for taxpayers if they're on Medicaid or Medicare.”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 1:11:10-1:11:20

“A huge amount of revenue is obtained from tobacco sin taxes and also from tobacco settlement money [in Tennessee].”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 1:12:09-1:12:22

“When there aren't smokers left to tax, then they're going to go to vaping and to cannabis.”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 1:12:42-1:12:51

“The government literally owning 89% of Clark county of the county that Vegas is in, which has really created a huge price inflation on…”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 1:16:23-1:16:37

“We've artificially inflated the cost of housing by not making property available to private developers to private land owners.”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 1:16:49-1:17:01

“I've been able to save taxpayers $60 billion in my career by exposing wasteful spending and getting it cut at the federal level.”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 1:17:24-1:17:34

“Right now we just can't service the debt that we're going to have coming up in the next few years.”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 1:17:36-1:17:43

“The way the calendar works, the schedule works, for the most part, is you're in D.C. two weeks in the district, one week.”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 1:22:51-1:23:00

“We're getting our Bojangles [in Vegas].”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 1:24:30-1:24:33

“The team's been here. You know, this is our seventh season with the Golden Knights.”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 1:26:51-1:26:56

“The Constitution is the guide that every member of Congress should be following.”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 1:30:33-1:30:40

“If more members of Congress sort of limited the size and scope of government to what the Constitution outlined, we'd be better off as a…”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 1:30:40-1:30:49

“We need to focus on having a balanced budget.”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 1:31:10-1:31:20

“I don't think that we'll pass a balanced budget amendment anytime soon.”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 1:31:19-1:31:23

“Members of Congress should not be getting pay increases when families are struggling.”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 1:31:36-1:31:42

“Vaping changes lives and saves lives.”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 1:38:23-1:38:28

“The very first obligation you have is to your constituents to make sure that if somebody has an issue with their Social Security, with their…”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 1:41:56-1:42:15

“The incumbent I'm running against name is Susie Lee. I don't think she's been terribly effective at [taking care of constituents].”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 1:42:17-1:42:24

“Every year, because of gerrymandering and who's in Congress and their power and their donations and things, there are really only 15, 20…”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 1:42:57-1:43:09

“The district I'm in is one of the real flippable tight seats.”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 1:43:08-1:43:15

“A lot of these issues are at the state level.”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 1:46:42-1:46:47

“You can win a state Assembly, a state House seat without raising a million dollars.”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 1:47:08-1:47:19

“You can win those races and be very effective at fighting vape bans, flavor bans, addressing some of the disparities that we talked about…”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 1:47:18-1:47:34

“I've seen that happen at the international level with the WHO and the fcc, TC with the people that government send.”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 1:51:38-1:51:48

“The WHO made decisions to ban reporters from talking about what was going on in these meetings.”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 1:53:45-1:53:55

“The UN runs World Press Freedom Day, and they require, in order to be a member state of the un, that you've got open records laws, that…”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 1:53:58-1:54:13

“U.S. taxpayers were funding [the WHO].”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 1:55:02-1:56:10

“I was literally exposing that the pharmaceutical companies and people like Bloomberg and Robert Wood Johnson foundation were behind the…”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 1:55:28-1:55:51

“There's such a big community of people trying to tell this story [about vaping alternatives] globally.”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 1:57:53-1:57:58

“The vape community has been effective at telling its story on Twitter.”

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3) | Uploaded November 22, 2023 | 1:57:53-1:57:58

Drew Johnson: “Clearly we've got laws on the books that say you've got to…”