SENATE PASSES FDA REGULATION OF TOBACCO PRODUCTS

[and-justice-for-all]

SENATE PASSES FDA REGULATION

OF TOBACCO PRODUCTS

Today, the U.S. Senate passed the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act with a landslide, bipartisan vote of 79-17. Forty-five years after the first Surgeon General's report linking cigarette smoking to lung cancer, the most deadly product sold in America will no longer be the least regulated!



This legislation represents the strongest action Congress has ever taken to reduce tobacco use. Today’s historic vote brings us right up to the finish line in the decade-long battle to grant the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the authority to regulate the manufacturing, marketing and sale of tobacco products. The House of Representatives passed similiar legislation in April. President Obama has indicated that he is eager to sign it into law.



THANK YOU for all you have done —some of you for many years—to help protect our children from the terrible toll of tobacco.

Sincerely,

Brian Hutchinson
Director, Grassroots
Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids

Click here to contribute
www.tobaccofreekids.org • 202.296.5469
1400 Eye Street, NW, Suite 1200 • Washington, D.C. 20005

[virgogal]

1. I wish they would just ban them and be done with it.

[SeattleGirl]

2. Sure, as long as there was a way to help people through the

quitting stage, Believe me, it often isn't pretty.

[tridim]

3. They should have also made nicotine replacement therapy cheaper

It's WAY overpriced now, cigarettes are much cheaper even with the taxes. Might as well keep smoking to save money in these tough times.