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Are Safer Cigarettes a Corporate Ploy, and FDA Mistake? -- BU Today

Is there such a thing as a safe(r) cigarette? Antismoking advocates recently pushed through legislation that gives the Food and Drug Administration broad new powers to regulate tobacco. The legislation requires that health warnings on tobacco products be larger, bans candy and fruit-flavored cigarettes, and sets other sales restrictions, seen by some as major steps in the campaign to reduce smoking. But it also puts the federal government in the most unusual position of endorsing products known to cause thousands of deaths each year.

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