FDA Protects Big Pharma While Telling Americans "F*** You!"
FDA Doesn't Care About Cancer
FDA Approval to Immunize Drug Companies From Lawsuits
Congress, executive, what difference does it make?
They all work for corporations, not you (is that ever looking like a contrived crisis to sell more regulation, hmmm?).
"House gives FDA more powers over tobacco" by New York Times | April 3, 2009
WASHINGTON - The House of Representatives yesterday passed legislation by a wide margin to give the Food and Drug Administration sweeping new powers over tobacco products, which kill an estimated 400,000 Americans each year.
Despite the 298-to-112 House vote, though, a closer battle is likely in the Senate between public health advocates and some tobacco industry supporters. Senator Richard M. Burr, Republican of North Carolina, the leading tobacco producing state, has threatened a filibuster.
And while the cigarette leader Philip Morris supports the legislation, other big tobacco companies oppose it. Senator Edward M. Kennedy, a prime sponsor in the Senate, plans to introduce a version of the House bill this month after a two-week congressional recess.
President Obama also strongly supports the legislation, the Office of Management and Budget said Wednesday, in the administration's first official statement on the issue.
"Cigarette smoking is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States and is a contributing factor to scores of diseases and conditions inflicting misery upon millions of our citizens," the administration statement said.
Just wondering who will pay the taxes for the kids' healthcare, but.... and how come no one was complaining when the government subsidized tobacco crops for decades?
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As for pain and misery, the US military machine inflicts enough of that; however, one final thought:
Is it NOT ODD that we PLACE TRADE SANCTIONS on thiose countries that REFUSE to IMPORT OUR CIGARETTES? Can you think of ANYTHING more RACIST and ELITIST than THAT?!!!!
Time for GOVERNMENT to GET OUT of the REGULATION BUSINESS when it comes to VICE!!! I say LEAVE THOSE DECISIONS up to the PEOPLE that LIVE THERE!!!
Fat chance here: State Gambling Addiction Leads to Fascism in Massachusetts
