Big Tobacco’s Guinea Pigs: How an Unregulated Industry Experiments on America’s Kids and Consumers..

February 21, 2008 - Big Tobacco’s Guinea Pigs: How an Unregulated Industry Experiments on America’s Kids and Consumers.. This excellent report has been issued by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, the American Heart Association, the American Lung Association and the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. More and more tobacco products are being marketed as a result of the decline in cigarette smoking and ban on smoking in public places. The report details how the companies manipulate their products to recruit new youth users, create and sustain addiction, and discourage users from quitting. Even though tobacco use in the leading preventable cause of death in this country, tobacco products are not regulated by any public health agency. As a result tobacco manufacturers can introduce new products, secretly modify existing products with new designs and ingredients, and make unproven health claims without regard for the impact on public health. The cornerstone of the pending legislation before the U.S. congress is the requirement that any explicit or implicit health claim must be evaluated by the FDA on a pre-market basis. This principle applies to all other products that the FDA regulates and should be applied to tobacco products. Some related news briefs: C-store Highlighting Tobacco Blunt Wraps Available in Lots of Different Flavors.. and Tobacco Products When You Can't Smoke - Tobacco Film Strips (like Listerine Breath Strips), Nicogel, Nicofix, Firebreaks. Other news briefs concerned with the pending legislation: December 10, 2007, December 7, 2007 and October 5, 2007. (TobaccoWatch.org)