Senate panel OKs bill to relate cigarettes, ban cloves
Posted on August 3rd, 2007 by bile Categories and Tags: Uncategorized, Congress, drugs, education, Food and Drug Administration, freedom, Health, Labor and Pensions Committee, liberty, Michael B. Enzi, nanny state, Pensions Committee, politics, privacy, regulation, Senate, smoking ban, tobacco advertising, United States, World Trade Organization, Wyoming, your rights 5 Comments »A Senate committee Wednesday embraced legislation that would for the first time allow federal regulation of cigarettes.
The bill, approved 13 to 8 by the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, would give the Food and Drug Administration authority to restrict tobacco advertising, regulate warning labels and remove hazardous ingredients.
The bill would allow the FDA to reduce the amount of nicotine in cigarettes, but only Congress could permanently ban them.
The committee adopted an amendment by Sen. Michael B. Enzi (R-Wyo.) that would ban clove cigarettes in the U.S., reversing a controversial decision by Kennedy to allow the FDA to decide.
Kennedy, the panel’s chairman, said he was responding to several senators who contacted him with concerns that a ban on clove cigarettes could not be compliant with World Trade Organization rules. But Kennedy agreed to the ban after several senators objected.
They don’t object to limiting the freedom of the public but whether it’s not compliant with the WTO. It’s funny, they take an oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” They must have a different copy than I do.
