New Push Grows for FDA Regulation of Tobacco
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After years of falling short, advocates of requiring the Food and Drug Administration to regulate tobacco are again waging that fight in Congress -- and this time, they say, the odds are in their favor. Really.
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Government regulation of tobacco could backfire by inadvertently forcing smokers to light up more and inhale more deeply, the head of the Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday.
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New controls on tobacco advertising came into effect in Britain on Tuesday, the latest step in a government campaign against smoking.
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A new global treaty on tobacco is sure to be trouble for tobacco companies.
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WASHINGTON/SCOTTSDALE, Arizona  - The tobacco wars are back in the U.S. Congress, but the battle lines have shifted and anti-smoking forces are no longer facing a monolithic tobacco industry and loyal legislators.
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The passage of a major U.S. tax bill containing a buyout for tobacco farmers has frustrated advocates who had hoped to link the funding to new laws regulating cigarettes.
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US government on Tuesday begins a major court battle to win $US280 billion ($400 billion) that it says major tobacco companies earned from the public by covering up the dangers of smoking.
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In a major setback for public health  groups, congressional tax negotiators on Tuesday blocked a plan  to allow the Food and Drug Administration to regulate tobacco,  but a $10 billion package for tobacco farmers was set to be  approved.
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TORONTO (CP) - Retailers, cigarette manufacturers and advocates for the rights of Canada's smokers were mobilizing Wednesday for a long, arduous battle over the Ontario government's stringent new crackdown on smoking.
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The Food and Drug Administration should regulate tobacco and develop a plan to reduce nicotine levels in cigarettes, a new Institute of Medicine report urged Thursday.
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New controls on tobacco advertising have come into effect, the latest step in a government campaign against smoking. Cigarette and tobacco advertising in shops, pubs and clubs will now be
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The U.S. Congress and President George W. Bush have stymied efforts to tighten regulation of tobacco and discourage smoking and states have not spent nearly enough to battle cigarettes, the American Lung Association said on Thursday.
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Senate and U.S. House of Representatives tax negotiators on Tuesday rejected a bid to grant the Food and Drug Administration power to regulate tobacco but were set to approve a &#36;10 billion buyout for U.S. tobacco farmers as part of a big corporate tax bill.
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Government regulators now look to approve as quickly as possible medicines whose benefits exceed their risks.
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WASHINGTON, Nov 04, 2004 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- The US Food and Drug Administration Thursday said it was implementing several new initiatives to regulate dietary supplements.
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For seven years, proponents have been trying to get the Food and Drug Administration to regulate cigarettes, and President Bush has firmly opposed.
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In a major setback for public health groups, congressional tax negotiators on Tuesday blocked a plan to allow the Food and Drug Administration to regulate tobacco, but