Comments on: "Low Tar" Cigarette Claim Up In Smoke

FTC Ends Endorsement Of Test For Nicotine, Tar In Cigarettes

[whiskyrocker]

Smoke um'' if you got um''. We all have to die of something. Might as well help the tobacco industry on your way out.

[andor3]

"how is the public expected to have any trust or faith in the FTCs ability to do its job?!!...But this time do things differently, actually hire competent people and make sure managers are incorruptible! "

Remember the neocons have outright said one of their goals is to get the people of the US to view the government as ineffective and a waste of money, and they have taken steps to ensure that the government works as poorly as possible. Of course their agenda is that when they suggest eliminating government oversight of business, people will welcome them as liberators and heroes. Lets show them otherwise and insist the government regulatory structure be rebuilt, staffed with top-notch people, and made an advocate for the people and a formidable adversary for big business.

[barbaram99]

Thank ye, I hate cars as they are so dirty/nasty that they make me cough,and that is why I stay in and yes cigerettes are bad,Vince has health issues and he was a smoker. He was forced to quit cold turkey. He had his first heart attack in 01. COPD. He told me* Barbara I never smoked you are lucky there.* tool the good Lord He needs ye here . Yer a granddad,and he knows ye have duties. Cars stink.

[laura552]

When I last smoked 15 years ago. I smoked low tar
cigs as I believed they had less tar. Two years after I quit I had a spontaneous pneumo thorax, which is a
collapsed lung and almost died. I believe if I never
smoked that would not have happened. My lungs are clean now and luckily I never developed cancer.

[o2bewealthy]

I have two sons that smoke - they will probably die of a smoking related disease unless they quit within the next couple of years. I care if people smoke, especially if I have to breathe in their second hand smoke. My grandmother died of heart disease brought on by living with my grandfather - a 2 packer-a-day who smoked in the house. The fact that my sons smoke makes for interesting family reunions: they isolate themselves outside away from everyone. I always thought the low tar claims were just another marketing ploy, but I''m actually kind of sad to see that my cynicism has been vindicated.

[standncount]

How about my right to smoke, relax, and ruin my own body?

Posted by mgeg1

I think it is your right to put in your body whatever you want. A lot of people complain about second hand smoke. Thats where being considerate comes in.

[dan_shields-2009]

uhh anything that is smoking is a hazard. period.

[mgeg1]

How about my right to smoke, relax, and ruin my own body?

[starleo146]

You know who fought most of the law suits for the killing tobacco cos. Ken Starr . Now that the republicans got in the last 8 yrs nothing but good for the tobacco co.the Killing Machine and they know it, but lets face it money is more important than people

[toolmangler-2009]

Thank goodness I stopped smoking after 60 years. I did that for me, not for you or anyone else. Maybe, just maybe, I didn''''t do too much damage to myself, and I will die at the hands of a jealous lover at the age of 101, rather than one of those diseases associated with smoking.

Posted by LL2OWT at 08:03 PM : Jul 08, 2008


I didn''t quit till the day I died. Thats a sure cure. Fortunately I was in the ER and on the table when it happened and the Lord wasn''t ready for me. (I don''t want to guess on that one) Been smoking since 1952 but haven''t even wanted one since the "CURE"

[standncount]

HA! I remember eating those candy cigartettes when I was a kid. They tasted like S*H*I*T but hey it was sugar.. How come do I smoke now? Oh yeah I wanted to be just like all the "cool" kids at my grade school and just like my dad!

[stn_sage]

Let me see if I understand this correctly.

Today, the FTC ''...admitted the test it used to show those cigarettes are low in tar is meaningless''! And, they want the cigarette producers to adjust their packaging to reflect these facts.

But, ''it''s a conclusion scientists reached seven years ago when they found the tests were easily and frequently manipulated.''

Therefore, I wonder:

First, why in God''s name did they not notify the public about this SEVEN years ago?!! Are FTC officials THAT stupid?!! Or, is it something else---like bribery, perhaps?!

Second, in light of this, how is the public expected to have any trust or faith in the FTC''s ability to do it''s job?!!

Finally, I really believe the only way to effectively get this government operational is mass ''pink slipping'' when the next administration takes office.
But this time do things differently, actually hire competent people and make sure managers are incorruptible!

[standncount]

Today, 42 years after it endorsed those tests, the federal government essentially called them %u2026 bogus.

Smoke is carbon monoxide. HELLOOOOOOOOO!!!

No cigarette is good for you. But if you smoke just be a considerate smoker... I am...

[kirkules]

We''re all polluters cause that''s the kind of world we live
in. Can''t get around it. It is built into the society and I hope we change that. As far as diesels polluting more than cigarettes, they probably do. However, they don''t come in and sit across from me when I''m having a meal at the deli.

[sociald63]

cigarette smoke is still cigarette smoke

[fstop100]

funny that they hid the truth for so long...
I guess the tobacco industry isn''t paying lobbyists to buy off our congress anymore.

[billpl-2009]

any idiot in america can tell you that smoking ANY cigarette is bad for you.
any idiot who smokes a "normal" cigarette knows you have to suck the crapp out of a "light" cigarette
we don''t need to spend millions in taxes to tell us any different.

Funny is it, that smokers pay billions in taxes on cigarettes because they''re harmful to them, but if they wanted to quit??? It would cost them hundreds more in quit smoking aids.The stuff is so expensive that they have to keep them locked up in the drug stores. And forget the prescription aids...they''re way to expensive and the bulk of smokers don''t have insurance.

I''m thinking maybe the government can''t afford smokers to quit. They make too much money off them.