<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/efe8f9a5-95a2-4f22-9a22-0e975dfb6d3d/140AF673-BC9B-44E4-BE56-770FEDB04CF2/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://smokingsphere.com/2009/09/the-fdas-latest-half-baked-claims-on-smoking/" href="http://smokingsphere.com/2009/09/the-fdas-latest-half-baked-claims-on-smoking/" style="font-size: 11px;">smokingsphere.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://smokingsphere.com/2009/09/the-fdas-latest-half-baked-claims-on-smoking/"><H2 class="entry-title">The FDA’s Latest Half-Baked Claims on Smoking</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://smokingsphere.com/2009/09/the-fdas-latest-half-baked-claims-on-smoking/"><DIV><SPAN>The FDA has been a trusted, government-run agency that regulates the health and safety issues of our food, drugs, and insecticides since the beginning of the 20th century. As the link between government and business, the FDA has been granted a great deal of responsibility to deliver to the public the facts about which products are either safe or harmful. We, the public, put a lot of trust into the FDA, but with that trust comes the danger of being deceived. So, is this government run agency using the influence they have for their own benefit?</SPAN></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://smokingsphere.com/2009/09/the-fdas-latest-half-baked-claims-on-smoking/"><SPAN>Well, in the days of late, the FDA has been <SPAN><A href="http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm173222.htm">discouraging</A></SPAN> us from trying a new product on the market designed to help those who smoke (40 million Americans) find an alternative that’s been proven to be categorically safe by virtually all independent medical reviews of the product EXCEPT those conducted by the FDA.</SPAN></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/140AF673-BC9B-44E4-BE56-770FEDB04CF2/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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