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• Philip Morris Averts FDA Regulation: INFACT Report Details Concerted Campaign to Block FDA Authority 

INFACT, a national corporate watchdog organization, released the report ``Pulling Out All the Stops: Philip Morris' Fight to Block FDA Regulation of Tobacco.'' The report, available online at www.infact.org, documents Philip Morris' concerted campaign over the past six years to block independent oversight by the FDA. ``The Supreme Court found that Congress has not given the FDA authority over the tobacco industry. Their reasoning illustrates that Philip Morris' undue political influence is at the root of this problem, and has powerfully served the tobacco industry's interests once again,'' said INFACT Executive Director Kathryn Mulvey.

``Pulling Out All the Stops'' presents a detailed analysis of how Philip Morris has used everything from lobbying and political pressure to public relations smokescreens to aggressively fight FDA regulation since 1994. The report cites internal tobacco industry documents released through the state of Minnesota's health care cost recovery lawsuit, as well as news articles, to expose tactics such as Philip Morris' 1996 plan to ``[i]mplement a legislation program to block FDA regulation of tobacco.''

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