"As the FDA considers how it chooses to communicate cigarette information, we encourage the agency to publicize the comparative risks of other tobacco products to the public so that adults who wish to continue to use them can make fully informed decisions between product options in the tobacco category," the statement said in part
District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers said she would penalize plaintiffs counsel if their planned 17,000 pages of exhibits, submitted in response to defendants summary judgment motions, prove unnecessary or immaterial
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According to a study funded by the California Air Resources Board, relative risks of cigarette smoking were larger for younger and middle-aged individuals than for the elderly. The board found very light active smokers who consumed three cigarettes or less a day have nearly the same relative risk of heart and lung disease as those who smoked a pack or more a day