It occurs because doctors are not mere slaves to FDA regulation or drug company marketing.
Under the FDA regulation, warning labels on packages soon will show pictures of the harmful effects of tobacco.
Excessively risk-averse, capricious and at times even hostile FDA regulation has made drug development extraordinarily difficult in recent years.
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Reynolds has since lobbied for tobacco tax increases and FDA regulation of tobacco.
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The failure of this FDA regulation has been discussed at length in the BMJ, in JAMA, and in many other outlets.
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Proponents of the legislation, after all, admittedly supported it as a vehicle to squeeze tobacco firms under the weight of FDA regulation.
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The federal agency says the term "energy drink" isn't defined by any FDA regulation, describing it as an ill-defined marketing term with widely varying ingredients.
President Obama was a co-sponsor of the FDA regulation legislation when he was in the Senate, and his administration has demonstrated a commitment to tobacco control.
The most likely explanation: the leadership of the division of the FDA responsible for drug regulation, the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), is seeking to avoid accountability for its role in the Avandia tragedy.
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Following long-standing precedents in food regulation, the FDA requires special labeling only when a new food raises questions of safety, nutrition, or proper usage.
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That input by the U.S. population overwhelmingly supported the right of Americans to take dietary supplements without undue interference and regulation of the FDA and or control by the pharmaceutical industry or any other government agency.
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When considering how to approach tobacco regulation, officials at the FDA rejected a total ban on tobacco as unworkable.
However, our leadership position may not last as increasingly onerous burdens posed by regulation of new developments, like the FDA approval process, in conjunction with billions of dollars in new taxes imposed on pharmaceutical manufacturers and medical device makers threaten to stall innovation.
But these are unusual times for drug development and its regulation by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
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