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U.S. near tighter rein on tobacco after Senate vote

2009/06/11 20:52:43 @Reuters: Top News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Thursday backed a historic plan giving the U.S. Food and Drug Administration sweeping power over cigarettes and other tobacco products, allowing the agency to curb advertisements, require stronger package warnings and inspect manufacturers. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/TopNews?a=SPxQqRqElq4:c5MGEGKiJ0k:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/TopNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/TopNews?a=SPxQqRqElq4:c5MGEGKiJ0k:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/TopNews?i=SPxQqRqElq4:c5MGEGKiJ0k:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/TopNews?a=SPxQqRqElq4:c5MGEGKiJ0k:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/TopNews?i=SPxQqRqElq4:c5MGEGKiJ0k:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/TopNews/~4/SPxQqRqElq4" height="1" width="1"/
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