Tobacco industry pushing products it calls lower-risk. (Tobacco).

Publication: Medicine & Health

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Two House committees June 3 entertained tobacco-industry pleas for the Federal Trade Commission to allow advertising of some tobacco products, including chewing tobacco, as lower risk alternatives to smoking traditional cigarettes.

Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Billy Tauzin (R-LA) deemed "intriguing" the concept of promoting smokeless tobacco--once know as chewing tobacco--as a safer alternative for nicotine addicts. "There are studies that have found that some tobacco products, such as smokeless tobacco, are less hazardous than cigarettes, "said...

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