The Senate approved a plan to give the government broad new powers to regulate the cigarette industry, including the ability to eliminate harmful ingredients in tobacco products and forbid advertising that appeals to children.

   The measure empowering the Food and Drug Administration to oversee the sale, marketing and manufacturing of cigarettes was linked on the Senate floor Thursday to a $12 billion buyout of tobacco farmers.

An unlikely coalition of anti-smoking advocates and tobacco-state senators pushed to secure the 78-15 vote to add the twin measures to a massive corporate tax bill that the Senate then passed on a voice vote and sent to a House-Senate conference committee.

The House-passed tax bill includes a plan to pay tobacco farmers to leave the federal tobacco-growing system but does not give FDA any new powers. Health groups hailed the Senate action.

There is established in the Department of Health and Human Services the Food and Drug Administration (hereinafter in this section referred to as the ``Administration'').

( B ) Mission

    The Administration shall--
        ( 1 ) promote the public health by promptly and efficiently
    reviewing clinical research and taking appropriate action on the
    marketing of regulated products in a timely manner;
        ( 2 ) with respect to such products, protect the public health by
    ensuring that--
            ( A ) foods are safe, wholesome, sanitary, and properly
        labeled;
            ( B ) human and veterinary drugs are safe and effective;
            ( C ) there is reasonable assurance of the safety and
        effectiveness of devices intended for human use;
            ( D ) cosmetics are safe and properly labeled; and
            ( E ) public health and safety are protected from electronic
        product radiation;