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EDITORIAL: Bring tobacco under the FDA 

The Senate is expected to consider this month a bill that would give the Food and Drug Administration regulatory authority over tobacco products. Regardless of objections by tobacco state senators, the Senate should not hesitate to pass the bill. It’s already been passed by the House. And a vigorous ruling by a federal appeals court two weeks ago, and the latest report by a noted lung cancer research doctor, make the case for regulation indisputably clear. . . .

Judge Kessler ruled that the companies “marketed and sold their lethal product with zeal, with deception, with a single-minded focus on their financial success and without regard for the human tragedy or social costs that success exacted.” . . .

Given its record of deceit and fraud, however, tobacco companies deserve no relief. Through their deceit, fraud and legacy of dead tobacco users, they’ve earned strict regulation.

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