CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton called for U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulation of tobacco and a national war on cancer.The New York Democrat and presidential candidate made the remarks Monday at the Livestrong Presidential Cancer Form in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.Clinton urged "a much more aggressive outreach. That's why I favor the FDA being able to regulate advertising about nicotine and tobacco products. And we're going to push through, I hope, a bill to get that done."Such regulation would require an amendment to an old law. The Clinton-era FDA asserted the authority to regulate tobacco in 1996 but the tobacco companies challenged that authority in court. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2000's FDA et al vs. Brown & Williamson et al that the federal act creating the FDA didn't give it that authority. Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions
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