Three years later: an assessment of the implementation of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act

摘要

I had the privilege of serving at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for 7 years and helping oversee the agency's 1994-1996 investigation of the tobacco industry. That effort enabled FDA to assert jurisdiction over cigarettes and smokeless tobacco products. From 1997 to 2000, FDA began to regulate these prod ucts and enforce certain youth access restrictions. In March 2000, after a lawsuit brought by the tobacco industry, the US Supreme Court overturned the FDA assertion of jurisdiction.