ERIC Number: ED322409
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1990-Jun-27
Pages: 78
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The Tobacco Product Education and Health Protection Act. Report from the Committee on Labor and Human Resources (To Accompany S. 2795). Senate, 101st Congress, 2d Session.
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources.
This document contains a report written to accompany "The Tobacco Product Education and Health Protection Act" (S. 2795), which authorizes a new title XV of the Public Health Service Act to establish a program of information, education, and research regarding the hazards of tobacco use. A summary of the bill notes that: (1) Subtitle A of the new title XV establishes a Center for Tobacco Products to promote public education and related activities on the health consequences of tobacco use, and support of research efforts; (2) Subtitle B authorizes support for various programs of grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements to be administered by the Center for public information campaigns, for model state leadership incentive grants for anti-tobacco use intervention, for projects to decrease tobacco use in the workplace, and for programs to inform the public of the dangers to human health presented by cigarette smoking and the use of smokeless tobacco products; and (3) Subtitle C prohibits a number of acts related to the manufacture of tobacco products and deals with misbranded and adulterated tobacco products. This report also contains sections on the background of the bill, the text of the bill as reported, views of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources of the U.S. Senate, a history of the legislation and committee action, cost estimates, a regulatory impact statement, a section-by-section analysis of the bill, and changes in the existing law. (NB)
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Health Education, Information Dissemination, Research and Development, Smoking, Tobacco
Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Congressional Sales Office, Washington, DC 20402.
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources.
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