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American Cancer Society Asks High Court to Allow FDA Regulation of Tobacco Products 

"Big Tobacco cannot and should not be able to market a deadly product to children, manipulate its addictive qualities, lie to the American public for decades about its safety, and be able to get away with it," said John R. Seffrin, Ph.D., chief executive officer of the two-million-member Society. "The law doesn't allow it, and the American Cancer Society believes no interpretation of that law should provide Big Tobacco with special protection." . . According to news reports, the tobacco industry, which has argued for years that tobacco was not addictive or dangerous, now claims tobacco is too dangerous to regulate.

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