FDA tobacco bill watch

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This article is part of the Tobacco portal on Sourcewatch funded from 2006 - 2009 by the American Legacy Foundation.

Information on the history, drafting, enactment, implementation and enforcement of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, ultimately approved by Congress in June, 2009, to have the U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulate tobacco products.

Current info

The newly-passed FDA tobacco bill, and the restrictions it places on cigarette advertising, are already drawing opposition from the Association of National Advertisers (ANA), a group of 340 companies that spend more than $100 billion a year on marketing and advertising. The new rules will ban outdoor advertising for tobacco within 1,000 feet of schools and playgrounds, and restrict many forms of print advertising to black-and-white text only. The ANA predicts that federal courts will throw out the new marketing restrictions. Tobacco companies have also started complaining about the bill's restrictions. Even Altria Group, the parent company of Phillip Morris, which helped draft the bill and supported the legislation, said in a statement last week that it believed some of the marketing restrictions were illegal. Legal experts have said a court challenge of the bill on First Amendment grounds is virtually certain.[1]

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References

  1. Duff Wilson Tobacco Regulation Is Expected to Face a Free-Speech Challenge, New York Times, June 15, 2009