Bill Dubbed ‘Marlboro Monopoly Act’
Washington, D.C., July 17, 2007—The Senate health committee on Wednesday is scheduled to mark up a bill that would put the Food and Drug Administration in charge of regulating tobacco, despite major problems associated with the agency’s current regulatory duties.
“Tobacco does not need FDA regulation, and regulating tobacco is the last thing that FDA needs to being doing,” said Sam Kazman, General Counsel for the Competitive Enterprise Institute. “The agency is already performing poorly in…
