Government expands its authority over products
Jump to full article: Watertown (NY) Daily Times, 2009-06-14
Intro: While some may yet protest federal intervention in the marketplace and regulations of a legal product, their numbers have been diminishing as the health dangers and deception by tobacco companies have become more apparent.
Cigarettes cause up to 400,000 deaths a year with smoking-related illnesses costing $100 billion annually in health care expenses, contributing to the changing political and social landscape.
The legislation gives the government authority it never had to regulate the manufacture and marketing of tobacco products. The Food and Drug Administration is allowed to evaluate the contents of tobacco products with the power to ban some of the estimated 6,000 chemicals used in the products that might be a danger to public health.
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