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11/03/97 5:22 PM 1 2 SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 3 The Congress finds that - 4 (1) The Food and Drug Administration and other public health 5 authorities consider the use of tobacco products by the Nation's children to 6 be a pediatric disease of epic and worsening proportions that results in new 7 generations of tobacco-dependent children and adults. 8 (2) A consensus exists within the scientific and medical communities 9 that tobacco products are inherently dangerous and cause cancer, heart 10 disease and other serious adverse health effects. 11 (3) The Food and Drug Administration and other health authorities 12 have concluded that virtually all new users of tobacco products are under 13 legal age. 14 (4) The President, the Food and Drug Administration, the Federal 15 Trade Commission, state attorneys general, and public health authorities 16 recognize that tobacco advertising and marketing contribute significantly to 17 the use of nicotine-containing tobacco products by adolescents. 18 (5) Because past efforts to restrict advertising and marketing of 19 tobacco products have failed to curb tobacco use by adolescents, new, 54093 5