Mike Pence, Trump's Reported VP Pick, Said "Smoking Doesn't Kill"

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, whom Donald Trump is reportedly leaning toward picking as his running mate, once held a pretty unusual view on cigarettes: that "smoking doesn't kill."

At several points around the turn of the millennium, Congress debated whether to allow the Food and Drug Administration to regulate tobacco products. Pence, who was elected to Congress in 2000, was firmly against it, arguing that smoking was not as dangerous as the "hysteria from the political class and the media" would have you believe. In fact, tobacco products kill up to half of users, according to the World Health Organization....
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