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Smoking Issues
Health Groups Flip Flop - Again - On Tobacco Talks, Says Activist Group
May 26th, 1997
The following was issued by John Banzhaf, Executive Director of Action on Smoking and Health: Two of the major three national health organizations (the American Cancer Society, the American Heart Association, and the American Lung Association) have flip-flopped - again - on basic issues related to talks with the tobacco industry. When word of a possible settlement which would have granted the tobacco industry immunity from liability and freedom from new regulations by the FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) first broke weeks ago, the three major national health organizations quickly denounced the very idea of considering such concessions - this...
Source: Cancer Weekly (1997-05-26)
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