Absolutely the bill will allow for changes, but through experience, I know that the regulatory process can be very slow. We feel we have sufficient evidence right now to merit flavoured smokeless tobacco being included on the schedule right now, so that we don't have the same situation a few years down the road that we had with cigarillos. Cigarillos surprised all of us. When we first saw the data, we couldn't believe that from nothing we had this huge problem with uptake amongst youth and young adults, and we don't want to see the stats of smokeless tobacco use go through the roof in the same way. Let's get smokeless on the schedule now so that we can curtail use by our really vulnerable youth population.
On June 9th, 2009. See this statement in context.