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FDA REGULATION

FDA REGULATION

Opposition in search of a rationale: the case for Food and Drug Administration regulation

M L Myers

Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Matthew L Myers
mmyers@TobaccoFreeKids.org

Keywords: Food and Drug Administration; FDA

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For more than a decade, public health leaders have called for government regulation of tobacco products. The consensus in support of government regulation recognised that, absent strong new governmental authority, the tobacco industry would continue to do the following: pursue marketing practices that are deceptive, have a negative impact on children and discourage quitting; withhold information vital to public health scientists; secretly manipulate their products in ways that make them more dangerous and more addictive; market products that the public perceives to be less hazardous while having no incentive to market products that, in fact, deliver fewer toxins; and undermine prevention efforts by using unsubstantiated claims, such as "light" or "low tar", to keep people smoking.

To address these concerns, in May 2004 long time public health champions Senators Edward Kennedy and Mike DeWine and Congressman Henry Waxman introduced in the US Congress legislation granting the US Food . . . [Full text of this article]

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