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Act, 15 U.S.C. 1335a. The manufacturers have provided additional information, not 

 required by law, on several occasions, when HHS has asked them to do so. The manu- 

 facturers repeatedly also have offered to make their scientists available to meet with 

 HHS to consider any issues relating to cigarette ingredients. To date, HHS has given 

 no indication that its review of cigarette ingredients has created any basis for concern. 



When the statutory ingredient-reporting requirement was enacted in 1984, the 

 responsible House committee stated that it provided "appropriate statutory authority" 

 and would "permit the federal government to initiate the toxicologic research necessary 

 to measure any health risk posed by the addition of additives and other ingredients to 

 cigarettes during the manufacturing process." Rep. Synar, who claimed credit for 

 "hammering out" the language of the 1984 law with then-Rep. Al Gore, praised the 

 1984 law as "the best example we have had in a long time of where honest negotiation 

 and reasonable compromise can mean that we can have meaningful legislation for this 

 country." 129 Cong. Rec. 24,626 (1984). 



Nothing has occurred since 1984 to warrant the conclusion that the approach 

 taken in 1984 was mistaken. Yet now, less than a decade after he pronounced the 1984 

 law not merely satisfactory but exemplary. Rep. Synar proposes to replace that law 

 with an ingredient safety-finding requirement that would result in banning tobacco 

 products overnight. 



Trade secrets. H.R. 2147 would repeal the provision of the Federal Cigarette 

 Labeling and Advertising Act that guarantees that the ingredient information provided 



