They propose amendment to FDA tobacco bill to ban dissolvable smokeless products
Jump to full article: Winston-Salem (NC) Journal, 2009-05-26
Author: Richard Craver * Journal Reporter
Intro: Two U.S. senators are aiming to snuff out dissolvable smokeless-tobacco products before they can get a toehold in the U.S. market.
Their amendment to the proposed FDA regulation bill from Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., is stoking the debate regarding the viability and possible less-hazardous role of smokeless tobacco products.
U.S. Sens. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., and Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, have labeled as "tobacco candy" the three dissolvable products being test marketed by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.
The senators say that the dissolvable products are aimed at getting youths hooked on tobacco and nicotine. They said that some of the products are sold in containers "designed to resemble cell phones."
"There is no doubt that smokeless tobacco products are aimed squarely at children,"
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