(1) to provide Federal authority and an appropriate administrative body designed specifically to regulate tobacco products, including smoking articles and smokeless tobacco products;
(2) to affirm the lawfulness of tobacco products and to ensure the ability of private manufacturers to compete for the business of adult users of tobacco products, including smokers and users of smokeless tobacco, in a free enterprise system;
(3) to confirm that cigarettes and other tobacco products, as customarily marketed, are not subject to regulation under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 201 et seq.), but instead are subject to regulation under this and other appropriate Acts;
(4) to ensure that existing Federal laws regulating certain aspects of tobacco and tobacco product production, as well as tobacco product taxation, testing, marketing, promotion, and advertising remain in full force and effect, except as repealed or amended by this Act;
(5) to ensure that tobacco products sold in the United States conform with all applicable laws and regulations;
(6) to strengthen enforcement against illegal sales of tobacco products, including the smuggling of illegal cigarettes and other tobacco products into the United States;
(7) to restrict access to tobacco products on the part of individuals younger than the minimum age established by State law for the purchase of tobacco products, and to limit the exposure of such individuals to tobacco product advertising, marketing, and promotion;
(8) to continue to permit the sale of tobacco products to adults in conjunction with measures to ensure that tobacco products are not sold or accessible to those who have not attained the minimum age established by State law for the purchase of tobacco products;
(9) to allow tobacco product manufacturers to communicate truthful and nonmisleading information, in advertising and otherwise, concerning tobacco products to adult users of tobacco products, including smokers and users of smokeless tobacco;
(10) to ensure that tobacco products sold in the United States do not present adults who choose to use those products with additional health risks beyond those inherent in tobacco use;
(11) to establish principles and policies governing tobacco products to promote reductions in morbidity and mortality associated with tobacco products, to inform adult users of tobacco products about the relative risks of chronic diseases and serious adverse health conditions associated with tobacco use presented by different categories of tobacco products, and to encourage manufacturers of tobacco products to develop and introduce tobacco products that present reduced exposure of tobacco product users to toxicants in tobacco or in tobacco smoke and tobacco products that present a reduced risk of chronic diseases and serious adverse health conditions associated with tobacco use;
(12) to promote the ability of adult consumers of tobacco products to obtain truthful and nonmisleading health-related information regarding the tobacco products that those consumers choose to use, while protecting the trade secrets of tobacco product manufacturers; and
(13) to establish a comprehensive Federal program to deal with tobacco, including the subject matters addressed in paragraphs (1) through (12), such that commerce and the national economy may be--
(A) protected to the maximum extent; and
(B) not impeded by diverse, nonuniform, and confusing requirements or prohibitions.