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This year we are more hopeful than ever that strong legislation giving the FDA authority to regulate tobacco products will become law.  Longtime champions Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA), chair of the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, and Representative Henry Waxman (D-CA), have indicated that they plan to reintroduce strong, bipartisan FDA legislation early in this new Congress. 

Please take a minute to urge your Member of Congress and Senators to become among the first congressional leaders who commit to protecting the public health and our kids from tobacco products.

By cosponsoring this legislation, your representative and senators will send a message that it is time for Congress to act.  Thousands of children are becoming addicted to tobacco products each day and the tobacco industry is coming up with new marketing strategies, such as candy- and alcohol-flavored cigarettes, to lure more children into starting to smoke.  Unless Congress acts to protect our kids, Big Tobacco will continue to target and entice them. 

In 2004, Congress came extremely close to enacting legislation granting the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authority over tobacco products. Unfortunately, the leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives blocked the bill.  With the changes in Congress, 2007 is the best chance yet for successful passage of strong legislation. 

Don't let anymore time pass! Send a letter today to your legislators to protect kids from tobacco and promote public health by supporting FDA authority to regulate tobacco products and advertising claims.