Jacob Grier on the FDA’s Cronyist Cigarette Regulations

Last week the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) exercised its authority to remove tobacco
products from the market for the first time ever. While some
applaud the action, Jacob Grier highlights not only
how insignificant the action really was, but just how
unprepared the FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products is to take on
additional responsibilities. In four years it has accomplished
little more than a bureaucratic freezing of the cigarette market.
Until it proves capable of making decisions efficiently,
objectively, and fairly, it should refrain from extending its
authority even further.

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