… pharmaceutical companies to the fda, not only with the application process, but also just making sure that their people are in certain positions within the fda, that they're just comfortable. The FDA bureaucracy is comfortable with pharma in a way that they're not with either combustible big tobacco or with vape. And I think it really puts tobacco and vape at a real disadvantage. And some of the decisions that have been made are just pharma going to the FDA and saying, hey, we make, we make Nicorette gum. (1:00:08–1:00:19)
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