Who needs the FDA Center for Tobacco Products?

How the regulatory state fails consumers of nicotine and tobacco

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Nearly ten years ago to the day, I published an article in the Atlantic detailing one entrepreneur’s struggle to bring a new cigarette to market. This is not a cause that one would expect to get sympathetic treatment in that publication, so it’s a testament to the Food and Drug Administration’s failures to effectively…