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Expert Committee Recommends U.S. Regulation of 'Safer' Smokes 

A blue-ribbon scientific panel is calling for federal regulation of "safer" cigarettes, saying there isn't enough evidence to conclude that any of the new, supposedly reduced-risk products hitting the market will actually decrease the health dangers of smoking.

"The only way to ensure that the health claims made about these products are true" -- and "the public is fully and accurately informed" -- is through new rules governing their development and marketing, said Stuart Bondurant, a physician who is chairman of the expert committee. . .

Seth W. Moskowitz, a spokesman for Reynolds, said the company is "pleased" that the institute's panel "believes that reduced-risk cigarettes should be part of sound public-health policy and that cigarette manufacturers should be encouraged to develop reduced-risk tobacco products." In Dallas, Reynolds is test-marketing the Eclipse

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