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• Today's debate: Tobacco marketing: Absent FDA oversight, tobacco firm peddles a potentially risky product. 

Maybe Reynolds has something. Maybe it doesn't. But shouldn't a potential Most troubling, the ads may convince some people to switch rather than quit, or to take up smoking in the first place. Clearly, that's not in the public interest.

Unfortunately, we've been here before, and the public paid the price. . .

Maybe Reynolds has something. Maybe it doesn't. But shouldn't a potential breakthrough of such magnitude be weighed by an independent authority?

And shouldn't a cigarette face at least as much government oversight as a bran flake?

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