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Drew Johnson: “There's so much lobbying that goes on, so much money that…”

Featuring: Drew Johnson, Libertarian-leaning Republican | Former Candidate, U.S. House Nevada, District 3

A Chat With Drew Johnson- Candidate for Congress (NV-3)

Published November 22, 2023 | Video Starts at 59:48

And you know, my heart goes out to pharmaceutical companies because they've got to spend a billion dollars to bring a drug to market. But There's so much lobbying that goes on, so much money that changes hands behind the scenes by 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. (59:48–59:59)

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“I've fought for [vaping alternatives] for 11 or 12 years now.”
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“They [the FDA] allow hundreds of new combustible products every single year.”
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“They [the FDA] continue to allow combustible cigarettes.”
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“I believe that people make better decisions than government.”
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“I believe that people should control their own bodies.”
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“I believe that government does too much to interfere in our lives.”
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“I've done in my career for the last 20 or 25 years, is working to advance liberty.”
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“Vaping is healthier than combustible cigarettes.”
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“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…”
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“There are special interests who make other tobacco cessation products that donate a heck of a lot more money than vape companies.”
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“Those products, as we all know from reading the science, aren't as effective.”
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“America is such a powerful voice in the WHO in the UN community, that we should use our power there.”
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“There was an effort by the WHO to create an international tobacco tax.”
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“Decisions weren't being made based on science, based on fact, based on research.”
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“The pharmaceutical company and the Robert Wood Johnson foundation funded almost every single country developing country to go to this…”
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“Tobacco Free Kids, you had all these lobbying groups that were also funded by pharmaceutical companies and by Robert Wood Johnson and other…”
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“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…”
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“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…”
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“The UN's health arm, the WHO, had become captive to pharmaceutical companies.”
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“We see that with the FDA here in the States.”
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“The teen epidemic of smoking and nicotine use vaping, however nicotine is consumed by teens right now is at the lowest point in history.”
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“Clearly we've got laws on the books that say you've got to be a certain age to consume these products.”
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“I think Twitter and other social media has sort of not usurped that, but become another tool for making your voice heard to lawmakers.”
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“It's 80, 20 me doing it. I would imagine that would continue.”
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“Liquid vaping liquids have been taxed differently than other nicotine products.”
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“Cannabis is legal [in Nevada].”
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“The drug war has been a huge failure.”
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“Attempts to stop vaping and stop non combustible nicotine products have been a huge failure and have cost so many American lives.”
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“Nicotine is really no more harmful than caffeine.”
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“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.”
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“Any nicotine product will kill you, it will cause cancer. And that's just simply, as we all know, not the case.”
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“The FDA blocked people from having [a product that would save tens of thousands of American lives every single year].”
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“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…”
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“Big Tobacco started buying vape companies.”
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“The people who are harmed the most are the people who have the least time, the least knowledge, the least information.”
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“We've got a lot of vape support, we've got a lot of vape shops.”
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“A lot of the people in my district are like me. More government, leave us alone, sort of small L. Libertarian.”
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“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…”
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“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…”
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“The FDA bureaucracy is comfortable with pharma in a way that they're not with either combustible big tobacco or with vape.”
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“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…”
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“With a better FDA director, there is a real chance to make some big changes pretty immediately.”
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“We've seen at the FDA level things kind of go more your way a few years ago, very temporarily, for a few months.”
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“With every new FDA director, there's an opportunity for things to change.”
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“If you get a bad FDA director for four years or eight years, you're in trouble.”
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“Nevada is one of those [states with no income tax].”
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“Nevada is very fortunate to have gaming because so many of the tourists basically pay a lot of the taxes.”
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“When people die from smoking related illnesses, they die earlier and faster and cheaper for taxpayers if they're on Medicaid or Medicare.”
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“A huge amount of revenue is obtained from tobacco sin taxes and also from tobacco settlement money [in Tennessee].”
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“When there aren't smokers left to tax, then they're going to go to vaping and to cannabis.”
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“The government literally owning 89% of Clark county of the county that Vegas is in, which has really created a huge price inflation on…”
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“We've artificially inflated the cost of housing by not making property available to private developers to private land owners.”
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“I've been able to save taxpayers $60 billion in my career by exposing wasteful spending and getting it cut at the federal level.”
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“Right now we just can't service the debt that we're going to have coming up in the next few years.”
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“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.”
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“We're getting our Bojangles [in Vegas].”
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“The team's been here. You know, this is our seventh season with the Golden Knights.”
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“The Constitution is the guide that every member of Congress should be following.”
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“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…”
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“We need to focus on having a balanced budget.”
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“I don't think that we'll pass a balanced budget amendment anytime soon.”
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“Members of Congress should not be getting pay increases when families are struggling.”
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“Vaping changes lives and saves lives.”
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“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…”
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“The incumbent I'm running against name is Susie Lee. I don't think she's been terribly effective at [taking care of constituents].”
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“Every year, because of gerrymandering and who's in Congress and their power and their donations and things, there are really only 15, 20…”
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“The district I'm in is one of the real flippable tight seats.”
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“A lot of these issues are at the state level.”
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“You can win a state Assembly, a state House seat without raising a million dollars.”
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“You can win those races and be very effective at fighting vape bans, flavor bans, addressing some of the disparities that we talked about…”
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“I've seen that happen at the international level with the WHO and the fcc, TC with the people that government send.”
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“The WHO made decisions to ban reporters from talking about what was going on in these meetings.”
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“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…”
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“U.S. taxpayers were funding [the WHO].”
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“I was literally exposing that the pharmaceutical companies and people like Bloomberg and Robert Wood Johnson foundation were behind the…”
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“There's such a big community of people trying to tell this story [about vaping alternatives] globally.”
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“The vape community has been effective at telling its story on Twitter.”
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