"They recognize that giving FDA authority over tobacco products is essential to effectively addressing the tobacco health crisis," said Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Hmm we have a tobacco health crisis?
Have you heard of lung cancer?
Indeed. What a revealingly out of touch thing for a libertarian to say.
Smoking and lung cancer have been around for centuries. Now its a crisis? Wasn't it even more of a crisis years ago when smoking was more prevalent than today. Isn't it less of a crisis now than it was then? The word "crisis" is something extremists use to justify whatever goofy ideas they seek to impose.