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Tobacco, The Food And Drug Administration, And Congress, George J. Annas
Tobacco, The Food And Drug Administration, And Congress, George J. Annas
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Smoking has been the number-one target of public health professionals in the United States for more than a decade because it is the leading cause of premature death. Nonetheless, no unified public health strategy has been developed. In 1995, with the strong endorsement of President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore, the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Dr. David Kessler, announced that the agency had jurisdiction over tobacco and would regulate cigarettes as “drug-delivery devices.”1 The tobacco companies objected and sued the FDA, arguing that Congress had not given the FDA jurisdiction over their product. …