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If nicotine classified drug; FDA could institute a ban
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — David Kessler even stunned his supporters when he announced he was considering regulating, perhaps banning, cigarettes.
It was merely the latest controversy for the fiery Food and Drug Administration commissioner. Now the public is waiting to see if the pediatrician who cracked down on everything from orange juice to powerful drug makers will really rein in the $60 billion tobacco industry.
"There is no greater public health issue," Kessler insists.
But critics say this time Kessler has gone too far. †
"It's another example of Kessler seizing an issue to advance his agenda, which is to make the public think Dr. Kessler is Mr. Enforcement," said Kim Pearson, a Washington lawyer
prohibited makers of dietary supplements from issuing unproven health claims.
cracked down on drug makers that don't follow FDA manufacturing guidelines, saying the lapses could compromise product safety.
who publishes an FDA-watchdog newsletter.
But Kessler says a lack of authority sometimes hinders him.
Kessler doesn't think that's bad; it's an image he has cultivated in his three years as head of the agency charged with protecting Americans from bad food or medicine. In that time, he has:
seized orange juice mislabeled as "fresh."
- banned silicon breast implants because of evidence they were harming women, although he later allowed some implants for reconstructive surgery.
And that question of authority may halt his quest to regulate nicotine. To do so, Kessler must prove tobacco companies intentionally control nicotine levels to cause or sustain addiction.
"It's not clear he's committed himself to anything," said Dr. Sidney Wolfe of Public Citizen's Health Resources Group, which monitors the FDA. "But if he doesn't believe FDA has the authority, he should say so," and ask Congress for help.
He wants Congress' guidance, because naming nicotine a drug would force him to ban most tobacco products.
"Some of today's cigarettes may in fact qualify as high-technology nicotine delivery systems," he said.
While Kessler is careful to say he hasn't proven that yet, he told Congress on Friday that he's getting close.
Palestinian group fights for Arab rule
The Associated Press
CAIRO, Egypt — Palestinian groups opposed to the Middle East peace talks say they will continue to fight for the destruction of Israel and the return of Jerusalem to Arab rule.
Leaders of 10 so-called "rejectionist" groups made the statement after meeting Saturday with Muammar Gaddafi.
Most of the Palestinian groups are part of a Syrian-based, hard-line alliance that has pledged to fight the Arab-Israeli peace talks under way since 1991. They are especially critical of Yassar Arafat's efforts to negotiate limited self-rule for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.
A communique carried by Libya's official JANA news agency said the groups railed against continuation of peace talks in the wake of the Hebron massacre on Feb. 25, when a Jewish settler killed at least 30 Palestinian worshippers.
Counterattack threatened by Bosnian-Serb leader
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SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Government forces attacked Serb fighters in northern Bosnia yesterday, leading the Serb leader to threaten a counterattack and hardened negotiating stance.
Bosnian radio claimed government forces had captured key Bosnian Serb positions near Maglaj, killing 70 Serb fighters, and were advancing. There was no confirmation of the report.
Speaking to his Serbian Democratic Party in Barja Luka, a Serb stronghold in northern Bosnia, Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic said the government's "spring offensive must be broken."
"If they do not stop this offen-
sive, I will order a counteroffensive, and then they shall not be able to get the territories they would be able to by political negotiations," he said, according to Taniuz.
Today, a constitutional assembly was to open in the Bosnian capital to begin setting up a transitional government for the new Croat-Muslim federation.
Bosnia's war began in April 1992 when Serbs armed by the Yugoslav army rebelled against moves by Croats and Muslims to secede from Yugoslavia. But the Muslim-Croat alliance collapsed into fighting over territory not held by Bosnian Serbs. It was resurrected under U.S. pressure.
More than 200,000 people are believed dead or missing in the war.
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