The federal agency charged with keeping food and drugs from harming people may soon be asked to take a consumer product that kills more than 400,000 people a year and make it safer.
The product is the cigarette generally acknowledged as anything but safe. Smoking accounts for nearly one in five deaths in the United States.
Are we going to cut cancer in half with FDA control?
Of Course! said a University of California, San Diego's scientific editor of several surgeon general reports on tobacco.
We are going to remove the harmful tobacco from tobacco products and replace it with Trinitrotoluene, (If you have to look it up you dont know what it is), which is much tastier and smokers will no longer agonize with slow deaths.
The plan needs approval from Washington where its biggest opponent appears to be The White House where President Bush is persistent with backing his idea to replace all tobacco products with candy cigarettes.
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