Tougher regulation of tobacco coming

Baack · Jun 12, 2009

WASHINGTON (AP) - A tobacco control bill set to win Senate approval would give the federal government broad new powers to monitor and change a toxic substance that contributes to some 400,000 deaths every year.
The legislation, heading for a vote Thursday, would for the first time give the Food and Drug Administration legal authority to regulate the sale, manufacturing and marketing of tobacco products.
Supporters hailed it as a milestone in efforts to reduce smoking, comparable to the 1964 surgeon general's warning that smoking causes lung cancer, the 1990 banning of smoking on planes and the 1998 settlement in which the tobacco industry pledged the states $206 billion to help fund anti-tobacco campaigns.
``This moment has been coming for 20 years,'' said Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the Senate's second-ranking Democrat. ``We're going to be able to protect millions of children and Americans from deadly tobacco-related disease.''
The House has already passed a similar bill, and resolution of relatively minor differences would send it to President Barack Obama. Unlike former President George W. Bush, who fought previous FDA regulation bills, Obama supports it.
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desertowl · Jun 12, 2009

The government has a dilemma. They make so much money off of taxes from cigarette sales. If they sucessfully make cigarettes less addictive, less people smoke and they would get less money from taxes. I'm curious to see if this passes. I've never seen the government say NO to money.

panhandlepat · Jun 12, 2009

desertowl said: ↑

The government has a dilemma. They make so much money off of taxes from cigarette sales. If they sucessfully make cigarettes less addictive, less people smoke and they would get less money from taxes. I'm curious to see if this passes. I've never seen the government say NO to money.
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they WON'T, they will just find another one of our orifaces to pull it out of!!

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