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Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (view source)
Revision as of 13:33, June 26, 2009
, 13:33, June 26, 2009add more details about legislation
The '''Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act''' is "a law to help protect the next generation of Americans from growing up with a deadly habit that so many of our generation have lived with", according to [[President Obama]]. [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124566796165436743.html]
The '''Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act''' is "a law to help protect the next generation of Americans from growing up with a deadly habit that so many of our generation have lived with", according to [[President Obama]]. [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124566796165436743.html]
*The law will force cigarette packs to carry graphic warnings and forbid the use of terms like "mild" and "low tar" in tobacco advertisements. [ibid]
*The law will give the FDA power to band candy and fruit flavoured cigarettes, force cigarette packs to carry larger, graphic warnings, forbid the use of terms like "mild" and "low tar" in tobacco advertisements, and further restrict advertising of tobacco products. [http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/12/tobacco.bill/index.html]
[[Category:United States Law]]
[[Category:United States Law]]