61. Philip Morris Cos. and other tobacco shares fell after a federal judge ruled that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has the power to regulate tobacco. 62. President Bill Clinton today ordered an unprecedented crackdown on teenage smoking that would regulate tobacco as an addictive drug. 63. Republicans like Rep. Thomas J. Bliley Jr. of Virginia, long a friend of the industry, have scorned efforts by the Food and Drug Administration to regulate tobacco. 64. Separately, the Clinton administration Monday said it would ask the Supreme Court to review whether the FDA can regulate tobacco under existing law. 65. Simmons said some senators feared that Dr. Henney favored too free a hand for the agency in regulating tobacco. 66. Some industry analysts said the report could give the U.S. Food and Drug Administration more ammunition to argue that tobacco should be regulated as an addictive drug. 67. Such classifications would insure that the Food and Drug Administration could regulate tobacco. 68. That gives the Food and Drug Administration the power to regulate tobacco and to control its marketing, which tobacco companies oppose. 69. That gives the Food and Drug Administration the power to regulate tobacco and to control its marketing, which cigarette companies oppose. 70. That declaration would give the FDA the power to regulate tobacco. |