Another Look at the Dems’ Tobacco Bill

he Democrats’ bill placing the tobacco industry under the oversight of the Food and Drug Administration is on its way to the White House, having passed the Senate today, and party leaders are patting themselves on the back for their accomplishment. (Some lawmakers, after all, have been pushing this concept for decades.)

But Paul Smalera, writing in Slate this week, has another approach to the legislation that’s worth a look.