[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4658 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4658

To require the labeling, advertising, and promotion of tobacco products 
   to disclose the additives to and constituents of the products and 
                 tobacco smoke, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 27, 1994

   Ms. Shepherd (for herself, Mr. Waxman, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Synar, Mr. 
  Meehan, Mr. Barrett of Wisconsin, and Mr. Hilliard) introduced the 
   following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                                Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
To require the labeling, advertising, and promotion of tobacco products 
   to disclose the additives to and constituents of the products and 
                 tobacco smoke, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Truth in Tobacco Labeling Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    The Congress finds the following:
            (1) The tobacco industry adds chemical additives to their 
        products that are not required to be disclosed to the public 
        and are not tested for health and safety in a manner comparable 
        to food ingredients.
            (2) There is no listing of chemical constituents found in 
        mainstream and sidestream smoke (including benzene, arsenic, 
        cyanide, etc.).
            (3) The labeling of tobacco products does not provide 
        smokers and nonsmokers with full and complete information about 
        tobacco products or any indication of the safety of those 
        products or their ingredients.
            (4) In spite of well established dangers of cigarette 
        smoking and tobacco use, no Federal regulatory agency has the 
        comprehensive authority to regulate the labeling and 
        advertising of such products.
            (5) There is no research publicly available on the impact 
        of chemical additives inhaled by smokers on cancer rates, 
        particularly breast cancer. If research into tobacco products 
        and the safety of their chemical additives indicates a link 
        between smoking and breast or other cancer, consumers have a 
        right to be informed of such information.

SEC. 3. REGULATION OF LABELING, ADVERTISING, AND PROMOTION OF TOBACCO 
              PRODUCTS.

    Chapter XI of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act is amended 
by redesignating the section 903 relating to scientific review groups 
as section 904 and by adding after that section the following:

``SEC. 905. REGULATION OF LABELING, ADVERTISING, AND PROMOTION OF 
              TOBACCO PRODUCTS.

    ``(a) Regulations.--The Secretary shall promulgate regulations 
governing the labeling, advertising, and promotion of tobacco products. 
Such regulations shall require manufacturers of tobacco products to 
provide to consumers by way of the labeling, advertising, and promotion 
of tobacco products--
            ``(1) identification of the chemical additives and 
        constituents found in tobacco products and tobacco smoke on or 
        in each package available to consumers,
            ``(2) information about the adverse effects of tobacco 
        products, including the potential link to breast or other 
        cancer,
            ``(3) adequate warnings and directions for use,
            ``(4) contraindications,
            ``(5) adequate warnings against use in pathological 
        conditions, and
            ``(6) any other information deemed necessary by the 
        Secretary.
The warnings required by paragraph (3) shall include the following 
warning: `Unlike food and other consumer products, the additives in 
cigarettes have not been tested for their impact on human health as an 
inhaled product'.
    ``(b) Definitions.--As used in subsection (a)--
            ``(1) the term `tobacco product' means cigarettes, cigars, 
        little cigars, pipe tobacco, smokeless tobacco, snuff, and 
        chewing tobacco, and
            ``(2) the term `constituent' means any element of cigarette 
        mainstream or sidestream smoke which is present in quantities 
        which represent a potential health hazard or where the health 
        effect is unknown.
    ``(c) Effective Date.--The Secretary shall promulgate regulations 
under subsection (a) not later than the expiration of 18 months after 
the date of the enactment of this section.''.

SEC. 4. PUBLICATION OF INDUSTRY SUBMISSIONS.

    Section 7(b) of the Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act 
(15 U.S.C. 1335a(b)) is amended--
            (1) by striking paragraph (2), and
            (2) by striking ``(1)'' and redesignating subparagraphs 
        (A), (B), and (C) as paragraphs (1), (2), and (3), 
        respectively.

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