Well, good morning. Ladies and gentlemen, and children who have taken a pledge against today I have brought together medical experts smoking to talk about our common commitment to ending youth smoking. This issue is critical to our efforts to improve the health of our Nation. According to the Center for Disease Control, of the 2 million Americans who will die in 1995, over 400,000 of them will have conditions related to smoking.
Later today, I will announce my strategy for combating this problem based on one simple idea: We should do everything we possibly can to keep tobacco out of the hands of our young people in the United States.
Now I'd like to call on Shana Bailey, who is a 12-year-old from Florida who's part of a successful program that teaches students how and why they should stay smoke-free.
NOTE: The President spoke at 10:18 a.m. in the Oval Office at the White House.
William J. Clinton, Remarks Prior to a Roundtable Discussion on Teenage Smoking Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/221253
