Regulation Of Tobacco Products Favors Big Tobacco, Makes US Farms Less Stable
Wednesday, November 12, 2008 - 13:21
in Health & Medicine
A proposed FDA regulation fails to address the suffering of migrant tobacco workers, the prevalence of smoking, and the redistribution of leaf production to the developing world, and it may actually favor the tobacco industry by reducing its liability for tobacco-related death and disease, by sustaining its operations around the world, and by strengthening its control over the terms of its contracts with US tobacco growers.