Posts tagged tobacco

• When Will Big Tobacco Stop Going After Kids - FDA Bans Flavored Cigarettes

  Wayne Parsons | September 23, 2009 2:34 PM | 4 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  USA Today (9/23, Rubin) reports that on Tuesday, the FDA banned the sale of candy-, fruit- and clove-flavored cigarettes. The move was authorized by the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control...

• Warning of smoking's dangers, Obama signs tobacco bill into law.

  Wayne Parsons | June 23, 2009 2:43 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Coverage of President Obama's signing Monday of a bill granting the FDA greater regulatory control over tobacco focuses largely on his personal struggle with smoking and speculation about whether or...

• Senate passes Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act giving FDA regulatory control of tobacco industry.

  Wayne Parsons | June 12, 2009 1:42 PM | 13 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  I can hear Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Hannity and Chaney moaning and whining already about the American people getting control of the runaway train that their FDA has turned loose on the public for the...