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Anti-Smoking Advocate on Tobacco Reform

06/23/2009|Opening Bell

Anti-Smoking Advocate on Tobacco ReformAnti-smoking.org Executive Director Patrick Reynolds on the new tobacco legislation that gives the FDA power to regulate tobacco products.

Free Choice Up in Smoke?

06/22/2009|Cavuto

Free Choice Up in Smoke?Libertarian Wayne Allyn Root on why Obama's smoking bill is burning individual lifestyles.

Street Meat: Iran, Tobacco and Apple's Jobs

06/22/2009|Happy Hour on FOX Business

Street Meat: Iran, Tobacco and Apple's JobsEric Bolling breaks down the stories that made news today.

Obama Signs Tobacco Regulation Bill

06/22/2009|FOX Business

Obama Signs Tobacco Regulation BillCharles Norton of USA Mutual Funds, weighs in on what the new tobacco law means for tobacco stocks.

House, Senate Pass Bill on Tobacco Oversight

06/12/2009|Closing Bell

House, Senate Pass Bill on Tobacco OversightTommy Payne, executive vice president of public affairs at Reynolds American, on the bill allowing the FDA to regulate the tobacco industry.

Keep Government Out of Health Care?

06/12/2009|Opening Bell

Keep Government Out of Health Care?Sen. Mitch McConnell, (R-KY), on why he thinks the health care should not be government regulated.

Senator: Bring Transparency to TARP Now

06/04/2009|FOX Business

Senator: Bring Transparency to TARP NowSen. Mike Johanns says Congress needs to reform how TARP is used.

LATEST STORIES

Behind the Scenes in the Humana-Baucus Fight « Emac's Stock Watch

Emac's Stock Watch

evolution than revolution. From the Surgeon General's report on smoking in 1965 it took over 45 years from that to the FDA taking control over tobacco products. The period that it took from Brown vs. Board to the 2008 election was 55 years and that is still ongoing. From

Blog|09/24/2009

FOXBusiness.com's Week in Review: Aug. 31 - Sept. 4, 2009

By Erik Berte and Julia Limitone| FOXBusiness| Markets

services. First Amendment Dept.: Several tobacco manufacturers, including R.J. Reynolds and Conwood Cos., sued the FDA , saying laws passed recently are restricting ..... arguing that the new FDA oversight over tobacco products includes provisions that restrict

Story|09/04/2009

Tobacco Firms Sue FDA, Seeking Greater Free Speech

By Joanna Ossinger| FOXBusiness| Markets

well as Commonwealth Brands, Lorillard (LO), National Tobacco Company LP and Discount Tobacco City & Lottery. The plaintiffs say that the law, which granted the FDA oversight of tobacco products, also contains provisions that restrict or prevent

Story|08/31/2009

R.J. Reynolds Sues FDA Over First Amendment Rights

By Wallace Witkowski| MarketWatch Pulse| Markets

SAN FRANCISCO -- R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., a unit of Reynolds American Inc. , said Monday it joined other tobacco companies and is suing the Food and ..... channels we have to communicate with adult tobacco consumers." Copyright © 2009 MarketWatch

Story|08/31/2009

Overgovernment « John Stossel

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EDT by John Stossel Overgovernment Former FDA director David Kessler’s book, The End ..... the exhaustive labeling that Kessler, as FDA chairman, helped mandate for packaged ..... language to appeal to the political class. As FDA director, in agitating publicly for regulation of tobacco , he never referred to a cigarette as a

Blog|08/12/2009

Senate OKs Regulation Over Tobacco

By Rex Nutting| MarketWatch Pulse| Markets

desk next week. The bill would give the FDA broad authority to regulate the manufacturing and marketing of all forms of tobacco . The FDA could ban some additives in cigarettes, and could require tobacco companies to reduce the levels of nicotine

Story|06/11/2009

Thursday Stories: Hometown Job Cuts; White House & GM; Doh!, A Stamp « The Brian Sullivan Blog

The Brian Sullivan Blog

and effectiveness but are still covered under Medicaid and fda wants tobacco regulated April 2, 2009 at 11:17 am AC A few months ago ..... helped. One other thing in Iowa I am upset at is Iowa raised tobacco tax $1 per pack for schip,kids health care,and now the

Blog|04/02/2009

OilWorld « Emac's Stock Watch

Emac's Stock Watch

strewn up and down the east coast, into the ocean ( FDA says to pregnant women (and the FDA remember, is pretty paralyzed these days too ..... to avoid Tuna, Sword Fish and Shark. I went to FDA site and found a list of all the mercury concentrations

Blog|08/06/2008