Goodbye cloves, I hardly smoked ye
I heard a rumor that smoking tobacco was bad for you. Seriously? This is the first I’ve heard of it! Well, Obama has yet again granted sweeping new federal powers to make all of our lives better, and be sure that we hear about this so-called ‘tobaccy’ and its many dangers.
The good:
Requires complete ingredient list to be put on packaging and submitted to FDA, so they can check whether there is a harmful additive or not. However, I can see this eventually turning into “tobacco’s bad, m’kay” and that being banned as an ingredient as well.
The stupid:
Can no longer use the words ‘mild’ or ‘light’. Seriously, have these idiots ever tasted the difference between a Marlboro Red and a Parliament Light? Those terms aren’t just smoke and mirrors, and I highly doubt ANYONE left in this society thinks any cigarettes are safe to smoke.
Sterner warnings on packs: As if this warnings about lung cancer and empysema and birth defects weren’t stern enough. I’m too stupid to read, I need them pic-chars to shows me hows them ciggyrettes are harmyful.
No Flavors: Goodbye cloves.
Federal powers: Now replacing your state laws, one at a time! Thanks gov!
So, whatever happened to an expectation of personal responsibility?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/22/AR2009062202970.html
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/06/22/obama-signstobacco-bill/
Quote I heard the other day…
A liberal is someone who measures the success of a government by the number of people it helps. A conservative is someone who measures the success of a government by the number of people it doesn’t help, because it doesn’t need to.
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Huh. The headline font smashes the ‘c’ and ‘l’ together to make it look like “Goodbye doves”.
Actually, it’d be really tough for them to ban tobacco as an ingredient since the bill contains specific language saying that the FDA can’t do that. I don’t hate my life enough to read through the entire bill but I did skim and search for the language that prohibits the FDA from banning tobacco outright and it seems pretty clear.
Here is a link to the bill. Enjot.
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills&docid=f:h1256enr.txt.pdf
SMOKE ‘EM WHILE YOU STILL CAN!
@mis4mike
apparently I suck a posting the image from the following page:
http://meaningfuldistractions.wordpress.com/2009/06/12/historic-cigarette-bill-passed-obama-vows-to-sign-it-as-soon-as-it-crosses-his-desk/
JD – should the responsibilities of the FDA be left up to the states? Or should the regulation it provides not exist at all? Just curious.
I, like Steve, do not hate my life and hence have not read the entire bill…but let me ask: What doors does this open for other things to be made illegal or regulated? Personally, I think people should be able to do what they want with their bodies. Maybe its about time people became a little more self sustaining and grow their own tobaccy?
Why not just go with the European approach. Less regulation, same or more taxes and put a big black label with a skull on it that says “Cigarettes cause death” or “Cigarettes kill”.
If you want to smoke em, go ahead nobody will stop you.
Tetreault – I believe the FDA functions better as a federal entity. I would certainly like to know if something is harmful to me, and each state may not have the collective power to evaluate products that the federal government has at their disposal.
When I referred to federal powers and state powers, I was speaking more to the advertisement restrictions and restrictions on flavors. We know they are harmful, they are clearly labeled, so leave the rest up to the states and the consumers.