Source: Daily Toreador (Texas Tech University)
Date: 2010-01-26
Author: Kelsey Heckel  Staff Writer

After starting smoking in college as a way to stay awake to
study, Tom Tenner said he realized he wasn\'t receiving anything
from smoking other than a chance at life-threatening disease.

"If you\'ve got really great genes that would normally have you
living into your 90s and you start smoking at a young age, you
will more than likely pass in your 60s or 70s," said Tenner,
associate dean for Faculty Affairs and Development at the Texas
Tech Health Sciences Center and past president of the American
Heart Association. "Now think if you don\'t have those great genes
to start with, you\'re more likely to pass in your 40s or 50s."

The Food and Drug Administration is trying to make others
realize this same fact by exercising its power to make tobacco
companies disclose all ingredients in their products for the
first time, an authority given to them through the Family Smoking
Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. . .