At a time when banks are shedding IT roles by the dozen, it seems counter-intuitive that 83 per cent of the nation’s chief information officers should report they are confident about the future of their business to the extent that 45 per cent expect to hire IT staff in the first six months of the year. The question remains – is this a dead cat bounce?
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William Atkins
Monday, 22 March 2010 00:47
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has been given the federal power to implement countrywide rules that bans the sale and marketing of tobacco products to children and teenagers and provides restrictions in other areas of the tobacco and cigarette business.
Consequently, over the next thirteen years, public health groups and health-conscious individuals led the struggle to pass this new law that does give the right and power to the FDA to ban tobacco products for children and teenagers and to regulate tobacco products for all citizens of the United States.
Legislation was passed in the U.S. Congress in June 2009 that gives the power to the FDA to regulate tobacco products for children under the age of 18 years.
That legislation goes into effect on June 22, 2010.
Sponsored by U.S. representative Henry Waxman (Democrat, California) and 178 other co-sponsors), it is called the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (H.R. 1256).
It states the following: “To protect the public health by providing the Food and Drug Administration with certain authority to regulate tobacco products, to amend title 5, United States Code, to make certain modifications in the Thrift Savings Plan, the Civil Service Retirement System, and the Federal Employees' Retirement System, and for other purposes.”
Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of the Health and Human Services, stated, “Every day, nearly 4,000 kids under 18 try their first cigarette and 1,000 kids under 18 become daily smokers.” These rules will “… help our kids stay healthy by making it harder for tobacco companies to target them with harmful and addictive products.” [Houston Chronicle (3.19.2010): “Tobacco faces new FDA marketing restrictions”]
Page two continues with the specific areas that the FDA will be regulating within the tobacco industry.
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