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Cigarettes News - Pending Tobacco Legislation
Tobacco legislation laden with loopholes
Sunday, July 23, 2006
MICHAEL SIEGEL and ALAN BLUM
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is considering a bill that would, for the first time, grant the Food and
Drug Administration authority to regulate tobacco products.
Numerous health organizations, including the American Cancer Society and the
Washington-based Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids are hailing the Family
Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act as a breakthrough that will both
limit the power of the tobacco industry and diminish the devastating toll of
death and disease caused by cigarettes.
Yet this same legislation, which would establish strict regulation of the
manufacture and promotion of the nation's most lethal consumer product, is
also being championed by none other than the world's leading cigarette
manufacturer - Philip Morris, maker of the top-selling brand, Marlboro.
Has Philip Morris, which commands over 50 percent of the U.S. cigarette
market, turned over a new leaf? While on the surface this may appear to be
the case, the devil's in the details. A closer look at the bill reveals that
it is laden with loopholes, inserted to benefit the cigarette manufacturers,
that would render it ineffective.
The biggest loophole is the provision that grants Congress veto power over
any major new tobacco product regulations promulgated by the FDA.
Congress would have 60 days to overturn, by a simple majority vote and on
political grounds alone, any regulation with teeth. This ensures that Philip
Morris and the other cigarette makers will continue to lobby behind the
scenes in Congress to block any meaningful change in the status quo. Thus
the bill defers to politicians, not medical and public health authorities,
as the ultimate decision-makers for reducing the harm from tobacco.
A second gaping loophole is the provision that permits cigarette companies
to market new tobacco products in a way that implies a reduced risk of
disease without any substantiation of that reduced risk. Consumers are
unlikely to understand that a claim of diminished exposure to one or another
of the 4000 toxic chemicals in cigarette smoke does not make for a safer
cigarette.
Moreover, the legislation would remove the threat of litigation, which is
the only factor that has prevented Philip Morris from marketing various
"reduced exposure" cigarettes. Consumers would not be permitted to claim
that they were falsely led to believe that these products were safer than
conventional cigarettes.
Nor does the bill permit the FDA to eliminate the addiction-inducing
component of cigarettes: nicotine. Again, it leaves this decision to
Congress, ensuring that the regulations with the biggest potential impact on
public health are left in the realm of politics, not science.
excerpt- from wwww.al.com
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