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While the posturing looks familiar, the Smith & Wesson settlement may make it a thing of the past. Rival gunmakers railed at their competitor's apostasy, but so did tobacco companies at the start of their capitulation. Under pressure from cities and the Federal Government, manufacturers may have to offer their own safety measures. If that happens, the capital Kabuki rituals will become more irrelevant than ever...
...been a tough week for the Food and Drug Administration. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court dealt a decisive blow to the agency's authority, ruling the FDA does not have regulatory power over tobacco. And Wednesday, after the diabetes drug Rezulin was linked to 63 deaths and 90 cases of liver failure, the FDA finally convinced pharmaceutical giant Warner-Lambert to pull it from the market. The agency will face inevitable questions: Why would the FDA approve a drug with known toxic side effects? Can consumers trust their safety to the agency's testing standards...
Last year, after making its way through the nation's appeals courts, the argument over FDA regulation of tobacco landed in the Supreme Court. Tuesday's ruling, which was accompanied by Stephen Breyer's scathing dissent, pushes tobacco back into congressional hands. Anti-smoking forces worry that the Court's decision could weaken the tobacco industry's newfound resolve to voluntarily enhance warning labels on cigarettes and step up efforts to keep minors from smoking. But while Tuesday's ruling is certainly a victory for tobacco - sending Philip Morris's stock through the roof - the triumph could be short-lived...
...Monday, tobacco was a drug regulated under federal law. On Tuesday, that all stopped. The labyrinthine legal two-step between the tobacco industry and its foes continued when the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that the FDA does not have the right to regulate tobacco as a drug. That the high court was in a position to rule on this at all is an indicator of how convoluted the reasoning in this case has become. For 60 years, the FDA followed its self-imposed hands-off policy on tobacco because, it reasoned, cigarette makers never claimed their product provided health...
Parents who suspect that their teens may be smoking should confront them immediately and directly. Assume that your child will deny smoking, but reiterate the rules of the house and the consequences if they're broken. Some parents try to bribe their kids to stay away from tobacco, but that doesn't work. Parents should never pay a kid not to do something he shouldn't be doing anyway...