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Cigarettes are "not a safe product" and are a threat to young people, said the head of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) yesterday in a speech at the Medical School...
...David A. Kessler, commissioner of the FDA, talked about nicotine addiction as a kids' disease in the second annual Zinberg Memorial Lecture...
Although the FDA is looking at its role in controlling tobacco, Kessler does not suggest...
...FDA has been looking at tobacco as a drug for the past year. Nicotine is an addictive substance, and the marketplace is sustained by addiction," Kessler said. "A ban is just not feasible...
Fellow transplant surgeons speculate that the FDA crackdown may have been triggered by complaints from commercial drug companies. These companies, the thinking goes, were annoyed that their university-based competitor was selling an experimental drug as if it had been approved for full marketing. Or it may be that regulators, who sent letters to Najarian complaining of infractions, were unwilling to cut off the supply of a drug that filled such a desperate need. Whatever the reason, by the time the fda barred ALG production in 1992, two drugs capable of taking its place had come on the market...