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...tobacco is not addictive: he only said he doesn't believe it is addictive, a "personal viewpoint he has every right to hold," says York. Some tobacco experts speculate that the tobacco industry may seek a deal in which cigarette companies agree to some level of FDA regulation in return for corporate and personal immunity from any charges of wrongdoing...
...looming over the industry is yet another threat, this one from Washington, where FDA chief David Kessler is considering a series of regulations on tobacco advertising and tobacco's availability to teenagers. The FDA proposal, which would ban cigarette-vending machines, free samples, mail-order sales, and outdoor advertising within 1,000 feet of schools, depends on an agency determination that cigarettes are a "drug-device combination product." But such a move would provoke cries of anguish from tobacco allies, who claim that Kessler, with the support of President Clinton, is actually seeking an all-out ban. "I believe nothing...
...class of drugs called protease inhibitors, which block production of a key enzyme, protease, that the virus needs to replicate itself. It was only last December that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first protease inhibitor, Hoffmann-La Roche's saquinavir. Ritonavir and indinavir could get the FDA go-ahead--and reach doctor's offices--as early as this summer. "The data are as good as anything I've seen," says Dr. Anthony Fauci, a leading AIDS expert at the National Institutes of Health...
Olestra, the fake fat that took Procter & Gamble 25 years and $200 million to develop, finally won FDA approval. Critics still contend that the zero-calorie, zero-cholesterol fat impostor, which passes through the body without being digested, causes unwanted side effects--among them diarrhea, cramps and, in rare cases, anal leakage. It can also rob the body of nutrients. Olestra products will carry a warning label...
...called fat-free fat, which passes through the digestive tract without being absorbed and thus adds no fat and no fat calories to food, can be used only in savory snacks, like potato chips, crackers and tortilla chips. The data, explains FDA Commissioner David Kessler, "demonstrate reasonable certainty of no harm in certain snack foods...