Again, I beg to differ. We've been reading reports from the Australian government and from the World Health Organization. We had a previous witness from the Canadian Cancer Society. Although he hadn't read them all yet, he was able to refer to 150 peer-reviewed scientific studies that showed that plain packaging, in fact, does not increase the rate of contraband tobacco and that it also, in fact, does help to decrease smoking rates.
On February 12th, 2018. See this statement in context.