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Tobacco regulation
Posted on September 29, 2008
The Washington Post makes the case for FDA regulation of tobacco:The FDA regulates everything from vegetables to Viagra. But cigarettes, which lead to some 400,000 deaths in the United States each year and shorten a smoker's life by 10 years on average, have somehow escaped oversight. As a result, tobacco companies don't have to divulge the ingredients in their products. They also don't have to disclose the levels of nicotine in their cigarettes. This means they can label their products as light or low tar with few restrictions; smokers have no way of knowing whether such claims are true. ...
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