FDA would regulate tobacco under new legislation

Congress is looking to give the Food and Drug Administration the controversial and complex job of
controlling tobacco marketing and advertising. FDA would not be able to ban cigarettes or require zero nicotine
products, under legislation recently approved by a key House committee. But it would gain authority to approve
cigarette labeling, limit certain promotional claims and curb marketing to minors. The measure provides legal
authority for a regulatory approach devised more than 10 years ago under former FDA Commissioner David Kessler, but
subsequently struck down by the courts.

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