Regulation of Tobacco Products: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session, Part 1

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Page 542 - Drug Addiction is a state of periodic or chronic intoxication produced by the repeated consumption of a drug (natural or synthetic) . Its characteristics include: 1. an overpowering desire or need (compulsion) to continue taking the drug and to obtain it by any means; 2. a tendency to increase the dose; 3. a psychic (psychological) and generally a physical dependence on the effects of the drug; 4.
Page 302 - ... advertisement fails to reveal facts material in the light of such representations or material with respect to consequences which may result from the use of the...
Page 302 - Unless its labeling bears (1) adequate directions for use; and (2) such adequate warnings against use in those pathological conditions or by children where its use may be dangerous to health, or against unsafe dosage or methods or duration of administration or application, in such manner and form, as are necessary for the protection of users...
Page 165 - Formulary, or any supplement to any of them ; and (2) articles intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in man or other animals; and (3) articles (other than food) intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of man or other animals...
Page 313 - Any drug (except a new animal drug or an animal feed bearing or containing a new animal drug) the composition of which is such that such drug, as a result of investigations to determine its safety and effectiveness for use under such conditions, has become so recognized but which has not, otherwise than in such investigations, been used to a material extent or for a material time under such conditions.
Page 170 - The definition of drug has been expanded to include, first, substances and preparations recognized in the Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States; second, devices intended for use in the cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease; third, substances, preparations, and devices intended for diagnostic purposes; and, fourth, such articles, other than food and cosmetics, intended to affect the structure or any function of the body.
Page 133 - The cigarette should be conceived not as a product but as a package.
Page 184 - The pharmaco logic and behavioral processes that determine tobacco addiction are similar to those that determine addiction to drugs such as heroin and cocaine.
Page 201 - Certification The undersigned certifies, that, to the best knowledge and belief of the undersigned, this petition includes all information and views on which the petition relies, and that it includes representative data and information known to the petitioner which are unfavorable to the petition.

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