Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act,

Has anyone heard of this?

Here's an article http://www.examiner.com/x-10873-LA-Health-and-Beauty-Examiner~y2009m8d23-Flavor-cigarette-ban-curbs-freedom-helps-big-tobacco-keep-selling

What are they going to take away next flavored alcohol? Condoms?

 

It's old news, it's already been signed into law, goodbye cloves

 

First I've heard of it, I guess that's how it passed. Funny isn't it how it continues to harbor a market for big tobacco, and protects their share. Free market there is no such thing.

Sounds like market control to me. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. What about free market and entreprenuership...find a product people wish to purchase but if big business wants to wipe your competition out? Expect government to legislate the market to protect your interests. Nothing new, but I think that's the change many of us voted for.

 

This was big news for a while though, especially on the internet, and when Obama signed the bill he made some kind of conference in the Rose garden over it I believe.

But it had strong support from the idiots of the WON'T SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE GOD DAMN CHILDREN crowd

For example, Djarum(i.e. cloves) I hear to get around it makes a new thing that are slightly thicker then cloves use to be, so they can call them cigarillos or whatever and get around the flavor law. You get 12 in a pack, but it still cost upwards of 80% or so of what the original 20 pack of cloves cost. We get less, shittier cigarettes, the company makes mad more money, or people just buy real cloves on the internet and don't pay taxes.

But hey, at least someone thought of the god damn children

 

I don't think I ever saw his address in the rose garden over this. At least not in my part of the world. But hey he guarranteed once again a market share to his main consitutents the lobbyists. That's what really counts isn't it?

 

Hell yea.

For more shits and giggles, phillip morris has been pushing in states(and in some places, normally county level it's worked) to have this law passed for years and years. Why, phillip morris doesn't make flavored cigarettes. But hey phillip morris really cares about our health right?

 

So cloves will remain legal except for those deliberately laced with known toxins and with an addictive substance added on top of it? If so, I support that (no, don't have time to read the legislation but maybe later).

 

tobacco sucks anyways..

 

Only if you do it right....

 

of course phillip morris cares fro our health just like pharmaceutical companies and the fda :/

 

Does't suck in moderation after a few ales.