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Senate gives the FDA authority to regulate tobacco products. Posted on Thu, Jul. 15, 2004 Though hailed as a breakthrough by public health groups, the measure faces an uncertain future because it was approved as part of a massive corporate tax bill that must still be reconciled with the House of Representative’s version. Those talks are expected to be long and complex. Senate Roll Call for FDA Tobacco.See how the Senate voted, send a note to your politicians! Free Speech Gets Smoked By Proposed Tobacco Law.Fortunately, the anti-tobacco campaigners don't trump the First Amendment. Empty Tobacco Fields. Buyout plan tempts farmers struggling to keep going. Senate Passes Historic Tobacco Bill.Though hailed as a breakthrough by public health groups, the measure faces an uncertain future because it was approved as part of a massive corporate tax bill that must still be reconciled with the House of Representative’s version. Those talks are expected to be long and complex. (Readers comments at bottom of page.) Senate OKs $12B Tobacco Buyout, Regulation. The measure empowering the Food and Drug Administration to oversee the sale, marketing and manufacturing of cigarettes was linked on the Senate floor Thursday to a $12 billion buyout of tobacco farmers. An unlikely coalition of anti-smoking advocates and tobacco-state senators pushed to secure the 78-15 vote to add the twin measures to a massive corporate tax bill that the Senate then passed on a voice vote and sent to a House-Senate conference committee. Senate Approves Tobacco Buyout and Fed Regs. Unlike the $9.6 billion House version, the Senate's buyout is funded by a tax on manufacturers of tobacco products. Should the FDA regulate cigarettes? RJR opposed the tobacco regulations proposed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1996 and the McCain bill in 1998 because they unduly restricted or eliminated our ability to compete for adult smokers' business. Cigarettes are clearly not foods, drugs or medical-delivery devices, the product categories over which FDA currently has regulatory authority. The food and drug laws governing the FDA make it very clear that unless food, drugs and medical devices are safe, they cannot be sold – a standard that cigarettes cannot meet. If cigarettes are to be further regulated by the federal government, they should be regulated as cigarettes – not forced into a regulatory category they do not fit. “Altria Group and our domestic tobacco company, Philip Morris USA, enthusiastically endorse passage of a final FSC/ETI bill that contains the DeWine/Kennedy FDA proposal in its entirety, and we will strongly oppose any and all amendments to this language during the upcoming House/Senate Conference Committee” said Steven C. Parrish, Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs, Altria Group. “We look forward to working with all stakeholders in support of this legislation.” Minority Cigarette Marketing Scrutinized. The latest cigarette-marketing efforts have caught the attention of health officials and anti-tobacco activists, who are accusing tobacco companies of using hip-hop images and attractive flavors to seduce minority youth into smoking. Limiting tobacco ads. Farmers aren't the only ones who will be paying close attention when the debate over a tobacco buyout starts up again in Congress. National media, marketing and advertising groups are nervously watching to see what happens to a proposal that gives the Food and Drug Administration the authority to regulate tobacco advertising. Remove subsidies. The letter writer failed to mention how this would help children, other than to say the targeting of minors would be more restricted. As far as I know, the FDA has nothing to do with advertising. Matter of fact, by the FDA's own bylaws, tobacco would have to be outlawed under the agency's oversight. Philip Morris Ad Incites Tobacco Market Struggle. Small Manufacturer Questions Motive Behind Advertisement Supporting FDA Regulation Of The Tobacco Industry. Let FDA do its primary job. Rather than tobacco, the FDA needs to focus on fixing problems raging with prescription drugs. FDA Cigarette Regs Unfair to Convenience Stores. Congress obviously has no intention of outlawing tobacco. It's too afraid of the political fallout and too fond of the federal and state taxes paid by smokers. But pending legislation in Congress would treat anyone who sells tobacco like a criminal, including the many independent retailers who probably run your local convenience store.

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