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FDA cautions companies it says are selling flavored cigarettes
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Published: November 7, 2009
Updated: 11/06/2009 11:35 pm
WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration yesterday warned several companies that it says continue to sell banned flavored cigarettes to U.S. consumers online.
The FDA sent letters to more than 10 Web-based companies directing them to stop selling the products and asking the companies to describe in writing what action they have taken.
The FDA banned candy-, fruit- and clove-flavored cigarettes in September. Those products, federal health authorities and regulators say, appeal especially to young people and are intended to attract new smokers.
In October 2006, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. agreed to stop selling cigarettes marketed as having candy, fruit or alcoholic flavors in the U.S. in a settlement with the attorneys general of 40 states.
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