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Cigarette Initiative Goes Up In Smoke 

William T. Godshall, executive director of SmokeFree Pennsylvania -- a Pittsburgh based activist group -- doubted Capitol Hill would take up the cause, leaving the question of FDA oversight a campaign issue this presidential election year.

"We've been urging Congress to act on this for years," Godshall said. But "the leadership of the Senate and the House have refused to do anything." . . Alice Dalla Palu, executive director of the Coalition for a Smoke Free Valley, called that a Catch-22 argument.

"It's disheartening to have a justice say this drug is so bad that we should really ban cigarettes yet Congress hasn't granted the regulatory authority so we can't. It's like double-speak to me."

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