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  • Tobacco industry batting a thousand with federal judge, while FDA strikes out

    Tobacco industry batting a thousand with federal judge, while FDA strikes out

    By Myron Levin
    Fair Warning
    What are the odds? In 2009, Congress passed landmark legislation directing the Food and Drug Administration to regulate tobacco products, aiming to cut the toll from the leading preventable cause of disease and death. Three times since, however, cigarette and e-cigarette companies have filed successful legal challenges to thwart rules intended to make their products less appealing to consumers–and less accessible to kids. All were decided by the same federal judge.

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