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Give FDA tobacco role

Bill would let agency control "safer-cigarette" claims by tobacco firms

If you're selling a product known to kill people, you face a knotty marketing problem: You must somehow persuade your customers to keep paying for it, and often pay more, but never exactly admit just how deadly it is. If you're the tobacco companies, the solution is simple: You lie.

Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has dealt a sharp legal blow to the nicotine fibmasters, clearing the way for...

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