A Sweet Tobacco Amendment Is Nixed

• By Anna Palmer
• Roll Call Staff
• June 11, 2009, Midnight

How sweet it isn’t for MacAndrews & Forbes.
The holding company’s lobbying effort to clarify a section of the tobacco bill aimed at shutting down the flavored cigarettes market was put on hold Wednesday after Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) indicated that no amendments would be added to the bill.