Friday, June 25, 2010

Tough New Cigarette Rules Go Into Effect

By Dean Reynolds

Opponents of smoking hailed tough new rules for cigarettes that went into effect Tuesday.

"The most stringent restrictions on marketing to children that this nation has ever seen," said Matthew Myers the president of the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids.

Have already ended flavored smokes like midnight berry or mandarin mint, the Food and Drug Administration will now enforce the end of misleading labels with words such as "light," "ultra-light" or "low tar," reports CBS News correspondent Dean Reynolds.

"Smokers have been lulled into thinking they were doing something that was not harmful to them," said Robin Mermelstein with the University of Illinois. Read more...

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