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To: knak
What effect does the tobacco industry buying the tobacco quotas (for $12 billion) have? I suspect this means the companies own the quotas?

If the FDA regulates tobacco products, how could anyone sue? After all, the companies are complying with Federal regulation, right?

17 posted on 07/16/2004 3:47:14 AM PDT by I_dmc
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To: I_dmc
If the FDA regulates tobacco products, how could anyone sue? After all, the companies are complying with Federal regulation, right?

"We interpret this proposed legislation as a thinly-veiled attempt to grant authority to an agency that by the terms of its existing mandate, must find cigarettes are not and can never be made safe and effective, and therefore would have no choice but to eventually ban the product," said Steve Watson, the company's vice president for External Affairs.

article here

18 posted on 07/16/2004 3:57:36 AM PDT by SheLion (Please register to vote! We can't afford to remain silent!!)
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