Introduction
Health officials are concerned that smoking by youths is on the rise. Dave Dunn, 17, of Downers Grove, Ill., says he took his first drag at age 6. (Photo Credit: Douglas Graham, Congressional Quarterly)
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The tobacco industry is facing a new round of legal and regulatory challenges in the protracted war over smoking and health. The Food and Drug Administration is asking the Supreme Court to let it regulate tobacco products, while the Justice Department is suing tobacco companies for the costs of treating smoking-related illnesses under Medicare and other federal health programs. These moves come in the wake of the tobacco industry's agreements to pay state governments $246 billion to settle similar reimbursement suits. For its part, the country's largest tobacco company, Philip Morris, is now acknowledging that smoking causes lung cancer and heart disease. But all the tobacco companies are resisting the latest govern-mental moves against the industry and defending their right to sell a “legal product” in a “responsible manner.”
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Smoking and the Tobacco Industry |
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May 10, 2019 |
E-Cigarette Dilemma |
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Sep. 19, 2014 |
E-Cigarettes |
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Dec. 10, 2004 |
Tobacco Industry  |
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Nov. 12, 1999 |
Closing In on Tobacco |
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Dec. 01, 1995 |
Teens and Tobacco |
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Sep. 30, 1994 |
Regulating Tobacco |
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Dec. 04, 1992 |
Crackdown on Smoking |
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Sep. 21, 1990 |
Tobacco Industry: on the Defensive, but Still Strong |
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Mar. 24, 1989 |
Who Smokes, Who Starts—and Why |
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Oct. 05, 1984 |
Tobacco Under Siege |
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Jan. 21, 1977 |
Anti-Smoking Campaign |
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Nov. 24, 1967 |
Regulation of the Cigarette Industry |
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Nov. 14, 1962 |
Smoking and Health |
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