Smoking has been the number-one target of public health professionalsin the United States for more than a decade because it is theleading cause of premature death. Nonetheless, no unified publichealth strategy has been developed. In 1995, with the strongendorsement of President Bill Clinton and Vice President AlGore, the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA),Dr. David Kessler, announced that the agency had jurisdictionover tobacco and would regulate cigarettes as "drug-deliverydevices."1 The tobacco companies objected and sued the FDA,arguing that Congress had not given the FDA jurisdiction overtheir product. The . . . [Full Text of this Article]
Tobacco Regulation in the United States
The FDA and Tobacco
The FDA's Tobacco Regulations
The U.S. District Court and the Court of Appeals
The Supreme Court
Law, Policy, and the FDA
Who Should Regulate Tobacco Products?
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