FDA chief lays out the case for tobacco regulation

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Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner David A. Kessler discussed the tobacco industry's methods of perpetuating nicotine addiction, in an address to the American Medical Assn (AMA)'s Tobacco Caucus. Kessler described how the FDA had discovered that tobacco company Brown and Williamson was distributing tobacco products made from a new plant with unusually high levels of nicotine. The findings help justify tobacco regulation, and Kessler encouraged AMA members to respond to the Clinton Administration's proposal to limit tobacco advertising that targets minors.

Administration of Public Health Programs, Health Problems Prevention Programs, Laws, regulations and rules, Social policy, Nicotine, Preventive medicine, United States. Food and Drug Administration, Advertising and children

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AMA launches new attack against tobacco

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The American Medical Association is urging individual and institutional investors to divest holdings in tobacco companies and mutual funds that invest in tobacco companies. Twenty-one percent of the 7,000 mutual funds traded in the US invest in tobacco companies. Vanguard Index 5000, Fidelity Contrafund, Fidelity Growth and Income, Fidelity Puritan and Investment Co. of America are among the mutual funds which maintain substantial investments in tobacco companies.

Investment Offices, Investment Companies, Open-End Investment Funds, Securities industry, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Ethical aspects, Securities, American Medical Association

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