Activists Push Hill To Support FDA Tobacco Bill

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(UNDATED) - Anti-smoking activists are renewing their attempts to pressure Indiana Representative Baron Hill (D-9th) to support a bill giving the Food and Drug Administration authority to regulate tobacco.

Indiana senators Richard Lugar (R) and Evan Bayh (D) and Democratic representatives Julia Carson and Brad Ellsworth have endorsed the bill, which could force cigarette manufacturers to list or change the ingredients in their product.

But activists have centered their attention on Hill, the only Hoosier on the house committee that would hear the bill. That hearing is expected in the next couple of months.

He also represents the Indiana congressional district with the most tobacco farmers. Hill has yet to take a public position on the bill. He did not return a phone call seeking comment.

Representatives of five anti-smoking groups held a news conference in Columbus to unveil a poll they say shows 70-percent support for the bill in Hill's district.

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