Thursday, May 24, 2007

UPDATE 1-U.S. expert panel urges regulation of tobacco

(Reuters) - WASHINGTON, May 24 - The U.S. Food and Drug
Administration should be given the power to regulate tobacco
products and cigarette taxes should be hiked as part of a
government campaign to reduce smoking, an expert panel
recommended on Thursday.




"These dangerous products are essentially unregulated,"
Richard Bonnie, a University of Virginia law professor and
chairman of the 14-member Institute of Medicine panel, told
reporters.


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