Tobacco Bill Will Damage FDA and Help Philip Morris

An academic article in Business Source argues that the current tobacco bill will damage the FDA and help the largest tobacco company, Philip Morris.

Some of the salient points are:

• Philip Morris opposed regulation until it realised it could capture and manipulate the provisions to suit themselves

• Philip Morris has admitted that making profits is the driving force behind their support for the bill

• the tobacco company’s huge resources as compared to the under-funded and overwhelmed FDA means that it is Philip Morris which is likely to win any litigation arising from the FDA’s new found control

• In determining the efficacy of reduced risk cigarettes, the FDA would rely on the evidence submitted by the tobacco company, not by neutral parties. The development of a ‘healthier cigarette’ would obviously be a boon for any tobacco company able to do so.

• Forcing the FDA to issue standards for a product that kills would lead to the FDA, a body designed to protect the consumer, to have an ideological crisis.

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