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This week the Senate is expected to pass a bill to give the Food and Drug Administration the power to regulate tobacco products. To talk us through the details of the bill, we turn The Takeaway’s Washington correspondent Todd Zwillich.
This week the Senate is expected to pass a bill to give the Food and Drug Administration the power to regulate tobacco products. The bill does not ban cigarettes, nor does it restrict sales to consenting adults; it largely concentrates on marketing. Terms like “low tar” and “light” are gone, the Surgeon General’s warnings will get much larger and brighter-colored, and except for menthol, there will be no more flavored cigarettes. To talk us through the details of the bill, we turn The Takeaway’s Washington correspondent Todd Zwillich.