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Ryan Bridge: The hysteria over Casey Costello's handling of smoking · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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Speaker 1: This is what they're saying about Casey Costello.
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Speaker 2: Resign, resign, resign, resign, resign.
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Speaker 1: Okay, we might have played it five times, but Aicheverel
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Speaker 1: says that she should resign along with the Health Coalitionale
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Speaker 1: teda Er, etc. But if hysteria over Casey Costello and smoking,
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Speaker 1: the real proof will be in the pudding. If smoking
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Speaker 1: rates come down, does it really matter how she did it?
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Speaker 1: And if it was a non tobacco company getting a
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Speaker 1: tax cut to provide these heat not burned the less
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Speaker 1: harmful than SIGGI products, would there be outrage or are
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Speaker 1: we being a bit blinded by the fact that it's
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Speaker 1: a multinational who is normally in the business of selling cigarettes.
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Speaker 1: Are we being rational about this? Isn't the ultimate goal
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Speaker 1: to reduce smoking rates? And if it is, shouldn't we
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Speaker 1: wait and see whether she's able to do that.
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