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LETTER: Regulating a drug  

Standing tall, as your June 3 headline suggested? Not even close. How about, Sen. Richard Burr lectures empty Senate chamber on the benefits of ingesting carcinogens. Campaign funding from tobacco interests expected to increase.

Tobacco contains nicotine. Nicotine is a drug. Drugs and drug delivery systems are regulated by the FDA. Tobacco products should be regulated by the FDA.

The federal buyout is paying tobacco farmers almost $10 billion to help them break their tobacco habit. Those who have chosen to continue producing this poisonous product deserve no additional consideration or protection from appropriate restrictive legislation.

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