ABSTRACT
No hazard of modern life would appear to have more urgent claim to the attention of regulators than the use of tobacco. Cigarettes kill about half of all regular smokers, making tobacco the leading preventable cause of death in both the United States and Europe (CDC 2005; EU 2003a). Every year, tobacco products kill more Americans than died on all the battlefields of World War II, along with more than a million Europeans (CDC 2005, 1; WHO 2002a, 1).
