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Title: FDA Expands Ban on Tobacco Sales, Ads for Kids Category: Health News Created: 3/19/2010 9:41:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 3/19/2010 9:41:37 AM
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) California lawmakers on Thursday will consider what is believed to be the nation's most far-reaching smoking ban in state parks as a way to get unsightly cigarette butts off the beach, eliminate second-hand smoke and reduce the threat of wildfires.
Tobacco companies led by Altria Group Inc. and Reynolds American Inc. were banned from marketing to young people under the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's first moves in a decade to regulate the $80 billion industry.
Efforts by health officials to reduce smoking among local residents got a major boost Friday with the announcement of a $6.6 million dollar federal grant.
While such bans already exist in most states, enforcement varies. Every day, some 4,000 children try a cigarette for the first time, and about 1,000 of them become daily smokers, according to the Food and Drug Administration.
For the first time, the US government is setting new national rules and regulations on the advertising and marketing of tobacco products.
The frequency of news articles about politicians who are mounting an attack for their city or state against the e cigarette are on the rise. The claim plays like a broken record that has been repeated over and over again to the media by opponents; that e-cigarettes are not approved by the FDA, we don't know what's in them and they are marketed to children.
San Luis Obispo, CA – Every day in California nearly 300 children take up smoking. Of those, 200 go on to become addicted and half of those will die prematurely because they smoked. Most of the 42,000
The King County Health Department has won a $25.5 million grant to address obesity and tobacco use.
Revenues have fallen for at least six over-21 bars since Franklin's smoking ban went into effect, and the establishments have had to lay off employees, an attorney for the bar owners told the City Council this week.
