The Senate voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to impose federal regulation on cigarettes and other forms of tobacco, passing a landmark bill to empower the Food and Drug Administration to control products that eventually kill half their regular users.
The House expects to vote Friday on the legislation and quickly send it to the President Obama for signing into law, Karen Lightfoot, spokeswoman for Henry A, Waxman, its prime sponsor, said in an interview late Thursday afternoon.
The Senate legislation has only minor differences from a version the House passed in April.
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