Citing growing safety concerns with the nation’s drug and food supply, leading consumer groups today urged the U.S. Senate to thoroughly “vet the vet” in the wake of President Bush’s nomination of Dr. Lester Crawford to head the Food and Drug Administration.

Despite a 1998 multi-state tobacco settlement banning tobacco companies from marketing directed toward children and banning payments to place tobacco products in films, tobacco use in the most popular youth-oriented movies has increased by 50 percent, according to a U.S. PIRG report released today. U.S. PIRG called on the Motion Picture Association of America to rate all smoking movies "R."