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pilotage16

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Why don't they stop McDonald's and other fast food places from marketing to children? Crazy

 

dustmite

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It's a good thing we don't have real problems the FDA could be dealing with, like poison in our food, or pharmaceutical companies pushing out carcinogenic products to cure major maladies like erectile dysfunction...

 

okiescout

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The Food and Drug Administration blocked the sale of four cigarette brands Tuesday, saying retailers will have to pull them off the shelves and telling the maker, R.J. Reynolds, that they cannot sell them any longer.
The agency used its new, limited authority
This is where this country had better wake up. Big government is baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad for everyone sooner or later.

 

lochinvar

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Oct 22, 2013
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Good lord. Tobacco isn't safe, and neither is water, driving, breathing, certain foods and living. Americans need to grow the hell up and figure out they are going to die, no other way out.
Now I think I'm going to go grab a pack of Luckies just for giggles.

 
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They sure are on a hiring push,

even their upbeat twitter account is used for trying to recruit dutiful drones...

https://twitter.com/fdatobacco
If the information you seek is not available from any of the above sources, you must submit a written Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to FDA.
Dear FDA,

Why are you such an idiot?
Tobacco regulatory science is a waste of taxpayer dollars.
"Under the 2009 Tobacco Control Act, the FDA cannot ban conventional tobacco products, such as cigarettes and smokeless tobacco, or require the total elimination of nicotine in tobacco products. However, the FDA has the authority to order the reduction of nicotine to non-addictive levels in some or all cigarettes sold in the United States. "
The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (also known as the FSPTC Act) was signed into law by President Barack Obama on June 22, 2009. This bill forever changed the scope of tobacco policy in the United States by giving the FDA the ability to regulate tobacco products, similar to how it has regulated food and pharmaceuticals since the passing of the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906.
President Barack Obama, who has himself struggled with smoking addiction, praised the law, saying that it will save American lives. The Obama administration had previously voiced support for such an act, while former President George W. Bush had threatened to veto the law after it had passed the United States House of Representatives in 2008. Much opposition to the law from Congress came from tobacco-growing states such as North Carolina, whose representatives said they felt that the FDA was not fit to take on the large task of regulating tobacco products.
The act gives the FDA comprehensive control on tobacco products for sale in the United States. Much of the legislation is targeted specifically at cigarettes and/or smokeless tobacco products. The act gives the FDA the power to:
Require tobacco companies to submit an ingredients list of any product sold or imported in the United States
Require tobacco companies to make public the nicotine content of their products and to adopt standards of nicotine content and to reduce or eliminate other harmful substances present
Enlarge warnings on tobacco packaging so that they take up 50% of the front and back panel area
Regulate the use of terms such as "mild" and "light" by requiring that tobacco products conform to certain standards regarding these terms
Create a Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee to help inform the FDA on issues relating to tobacco products

 
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