Abstract

The landmark symposium, A Decade of the Tobacco Control Act: Progress, Setbacks, and the Future of Tobacco Control, organized by the Public Health Law Center and held in conjunction with the 2019 National Conference on Tobacco or Health, assessed the first 10 years of federal tobacco regulation. In this introduction to the symposium, the Public Health Law Center’s executive director provides the context for insights by prominent experts from government, health organizations, and academia, acknowledging the mixed record of U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulation to date and suggesting that the agency’s ultimate success or failure will be determined by the answers to three fundamental, but still unresolved, questions: What is the true goal of federal regulation? How boldly or cautiously will the FDA approach that goal? And who will the agency serve? The answers to those questions, he argues, will determine the prospects for progress in controlling the nation’s leading cause of preventable death.

摘要

由公共卫生法律中心组织并与 2019 年全国烟草或健康会议同期举行的具有里程碑意义的研讨会，烟草控制法案的十年：烟草控制的进展、挫折和未来，评估了烟草控制的前 10 年。联邦烟草法规。在研讨会的介绍中，公共卫生法中心的执行主任提供了来自政府、卫生组织和学术界的知名专家的见解的背景，承认迄今为止美国食品和药物管理局 (FDA) 监管的混合记录，并建议该机构的最终成败将取决于三个基本但仍未解决的问题的答案：联邦监管的真正目标是什么？FDA 将如何大胆或谨慎地实现这一目标？该机构将为谁服务？他认为，这些问题的答案将决定在控制国家可预防死亡的主要原因方面取得进展的前景。