Hey, Marlboro Man, the FDA Is the New Sheriff in Town
This week the Senate is expected to pass a bill to give the Food and Drug Administration the power to regulate tobacco products. The bill does not ban cigarettes, nor does it restrict sales to consenting adults; it largely concentrates on marketing. Terms like “low tar” and “light” are gone, the Surgeon General’s warnings will get much larger and brighter-colored, and except for menthol, there will be no more flavored cigarettes. To talk us through the details of the bill, we turn The Takeaway’s Washington correspondent Todd Zwillich.
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