A Sweet Tobacco Amendment Is Nixed

By Anna Palmer
Roll Call Staff
June 11, 2009, 12 a.m.

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.



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