USA: Anti-Tobacco Efforts Falling Short

The American Lung Association says that the U.S. Congress and President George W. Bush have stymied efforts to tighten tobacco regulations and states have not spent nearly enough to battle cigarette smoking.The group implied that heavy lobbying and spending by tobacco companies was influencing at least some politicians and urged Congress to give the Food and Drug Administration the authority to regulate cigarettes.

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Filed under: Smoking / Quit Smoking on January 12th, 2008