Dozens of health groups sent a letter to President Obama Wednesday, urging him to issue a long awaited final rule that allows the Food and Drug Administration to regulate all tobacco products for the first time, including cigars and electronic cigarettes.
Thirty groups, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Heart Association and the American Lung Association, told Obama his leadership is needed to finish the rule, which was first proposed almost two years ago.
“When you signed the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act into law in 2009, FDA finally was given the tools to significantly reduce the 480,000 deaths caused by tobacco products each year and the $170 billion in health care costs attributable to treating tobacco-caused disease,” they wrote. “Yet it is now seven years since the statute was enacted and your administration has yet to assert its regulatory authority over all tobacco products.” Read More>
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