The Tobacco Epidemic
Posted on 13:54, Thursday, December 10
When I was a young smoker back in the mid 70s, attitudes about tobacco were a lot different than they are today in the United States. A person could light up just about anywhere, and while we all knew that cigarette smoking was hazardous to our health, we were in the dark ages about just how dangerous it really was.
President Obama Signs FDA Tobacco Bill
Posted on 13:52, Thursday, December 10
A day that will be noted in history books, today President Obama signed landmark legislation into law that will award the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulatory power over the manufacture and marketing of many commercially produced tobacco products.
Are Safer Cigarettes a Corporate Ploy, and FDA Mistake?
Posted on 13:46, Thursday, December 10
Antismoking advocates recently pushed through legislation that gives the Food and Drug Administration broad new powers to regulate tobacco. The legislation requires that health warnings on tobacco products be larger, bans candy and fruit-flavored cigarettes, and sets other sales restrictions, seen by some as major steps in the campaign to reduce smoking.


