Word: tobacco
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...researchers also expressed support for the Family Smoking Prevention Act, legislation that would give the Food and Drug Administration the power to regulate tobacco promotion, especially advertising campaigns that are aimed at children...
...professors said that Congress should give the FDA the power to restrict levels of nicotine and to more forcefully regulate the chemical content of snuff in order to ensure that tobacco companies are not engineering their products to increase use among young people or boost addiction in current users...
...interview Wednesday, Connolly said that tobacco remained a major public health problem in the United States and that more legislation is needed to combat its effects...
...second study by the three School of Public Health professors, which was published in the journal Tobacco Control, examined whether the manipulation of nicotine content and the use of different flavorings in moist snuff was a strategy employed by tobacco companies to increase chewing tobacco use among youth...
...researchers found that tobacco companies have increased the nicotine content in some brands of moist snuff and have employed different approaches to making snuff more palatable. They also found that marketing efforts have increased, and that moist snuff usage among teens has risen...