BrianGarst.com

They’ve been after them for years.  Nanny state do-gooders hate the idea that people can make their own choices about what risks to take.  Their latest freedom restricting plan?  Give the incompetent FDA control over the tobacco market.

In what appears to be the best chance since public health groups started pushing for it in the 1970s, Congress is poised to regulate tobacco, a product linked to 1,200 deaths each day but sold largely unfettered for centuries.

Legislation that the House Energy and Commerce Committee will take up today would place tobacco under the control of the Food and Drug Administration. Among other things, the bill would restrict the ways tobacco companies market cigarettes, require them to disclose the ingredients in their products and place larger warning labels on packages, and give the FDA the authority to require the removal of harmful chemicals and additives from cigarettes.

In what bizarro world has the Washington Post been living in that makes them think tobacco has been sold “largely unfettered?”  It truly boggles the mind.

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