Experts Call for FDA Regulation of Tobacco Products
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 25 (HealthDay News) -- All tobacco products in the United States should be regulated by the federal government, according to a report released Wednesday by a panel of 26 of the nation's leading tobacco control researchers and policy experts.
"Bold thinking is required to reverse the catastrophic projections for tobacco-caused deaths in this century," panel co-chair Mitchell Zeller, a health policy expert with Pinney Associates and a former associate commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, said in a University of Minnesota news release.
During a two-year process called The Strategic Dialogue on Tobacco Harm Reduction, the experts developed recommendations on ways to regulate tobacco products based on public health needs, as well as ways to help tobacco users who are unable or unwilling to quit to switch to the least harmful nicotine products.
The group recommended:
Regulation of harmful compounds in all tobacco products.
Regulation of all aspects of tobacco promotion, advertising and labeling.
A ban on claims of reductions in users' exposure to harmful components in tobacco or smoke unless there is sufficient scientific evidence that there is also a reduction in health risk.
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Thanks for taking the time to discuss this, I feel strongly about it and love learning more on this topic. If possible, as you gain expertise, would you mind updating your blog with more information? It is extremely helpful and beneficial to your readers :)
In ten years the government will either make cannibus legal, or outlaw tobacco.
I am happy the government is going to step in and hopefully regulate tobacco in the U.S. I cannot tell you the number of people I know who've just recently died due to cigarette smoking. In fact, all were smokers, even though they quit years ago...they still died from lung cancer and or a related cancer.
It's so hard for people to quit, especially women. The FDA is right when they say "this is not a one size fits all treatment plan". Each person is different and I bet if you asked most smokers if they'd like to quit, they'd say yes. They just don't know how to do it.
Do you ever ask yourself why cigar smokers don't die of lung cancer like cigarette smokers do? It has to do with the paper and how many puffs of smoke you take in. Some researchers say that you should smoke the strongest cigarettes you can if you cannot quit right away and you'll actually inhale less than if you were smoking, say, a light cigarette. Interesting isn't it? Does anyone know more about this? I've also heard the brown wrap is better then the white paper cigarettes are rolled with. Apparently, the brown is less toxic?? Could that be? If you want to smoke some say you should go to a high end cigar shop and buy your cigarettes from them or have them rolled. You'll end up smoking less and secreting less toxins into the body. Is there any truth in this?
There are also drops you can have made up that will make you not want to smoke. And I've read that they will actually take your appetite away to want to smoke. It's supposed to make you sick to your stomach to the point of where you never want to see another cigarette again, not alone smoke one.
Best in health,
M
I have been smoking since i was 16, am 36 now, i realize i'm at the turning point of when people start to get cancer, at least, based on other peoples accounts of having passed on due to smoking related lung cancer. i am doing all that i can, i wear my patches daily, and i take chantix 2x a day. i cannot take wellbutrin because it interacts with other medication. i smoke considerably less wearing the patches, but i do smoke. i'm very glad that tobacco is being regulated because i believe the government will help try and prevent my own death. i'm getting close to 37, so its somewhat spooky, i have wished for the longest time that there'd be some other medical breaththroughs in this area, for no other reason than to save my own life. the only choices i seem to have are wellbutrin (can't take it), chantix, and patches, and thats not killing my desire to drop cigarettes completely. i hope that this regulation will help pick up the slack, where medicine has failed.
so youre too lazy to try and quit yourself? youre just hoping that someone else will come up with something to fix your problem? thats whats wrong with america today, nobody can take responsibility for their own actions. its rather stupid. i wish you luck.