Comments on: Senate Panel OKs FDA Regulation Of Tobacco

Landmark Bill Would Require FDA To Restrict Ads, Regulate Warning Labels And Remove Hazardous Ingredients

[gkc99]

Cloves? They will be outlawed because they might smell like pot smoke.

Nicotine? It will not be outlawed because the addictive drug has the support of Republicans.

[republic1776]

The Govenment who is supposed to be our elected servents tightens it grip like a snake. (and we're paying for this?)

[condumism]

S_Temper belched:

There is no room for government theft of corporate profits in the free-market. That behavior is more like socialism or communism.

The Scum that you are trying to protect known as Big Tobacco hav raised the amount of highly addictive nicotine in cigs by 30%, with ZERO OVERSIGHT! Tobacco products serve NO PURPOSE anywhere on earth, except to enrich the pockets of the Fascists Southern Hypocrits that control the Repuglicon Party. American's have had enough of these unrestricted free markets. It is past due time to level the playing field and protect the dumber than nails American consumer from these Fascist Scumbags: aka: the Repuglicon Party of Liars and Thieves.

Vote Barack Obama for PResident: the only candidate to declare that he will ban all Corporat and Foreign Lobbyists from the Halls of Congress! Until this is done, America will remain a land of self-centered fools.

[brianbwb-2009]

Ban clove imports? Madagascar cloves are the primary "secret" flavoring ingredient in coca cola, and cloves in general are used to nail the pineapple slices to your thanksgiving turkey. Really, ask Grandma.

I think everyone involved in the clove ban has lost their minds.

[realpatriot1]

gkc99,

When I moved to rural North Carolina 10 years ago the golden leaf was everywhere. Since the buyout, it's harder to find it on tobacco road than Seven-Pesos.

These days it's grown abroad.

kpokey,

Good point. When they did have the quota buyout it was quite interesting to see that the majority of the quota holders receiving the buyouts weren't mom and pop farmers but huge corporations and many of the same Congressmen who are ******** about regulation now.

[gkc99]

Let's see, a bunch of DRUG PRODUCERS pay big money to a corrupt government to protect their growers, and the crooked pols provide cover to the DOPE GROWERS.

Colombia? Afghanistan? Nope, the USA!

Tobacco should be more illegal than pot, by far. It does 100 times the damage, ruins lives, kills millions, but THOSE POOR VIRGINIA DRUG GROWERS (who pay off Repugs and Dems alike).

Regulate tobacco and nicotine the same way as other addictive narcotics, and it would be in Schedule I with the heroin.

Nothing is more phony than the "Drug War" so beloved of neocons. The US government makes trillions off the addiction of tobacco slaves.

[kpokey]

And what's with the banning of cloves? Is it because they are so dangerous or is it because some law maker doesn't want the competition from clove cigarettes? Do a better job of reporting, please.

[pwrslm]

Regulating marijuana would solve many problems.
Prohibition will never work!
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Posted by GunOwnerDan

Gee, you would think that the government would learn that from experience, but its beyond a learning issue. The powers that run Tobacco and Alchohol lobbied very successfuly for the last 80 or so years. Every other drug that would compete with thier virtual empires are illegal.

So who cares? They are railroading people into prisons for doing the same thing with a different choice of drug, taxing our butts to the hilt and playing like they are actually accomplishing something.

The truth is, the War on Drugs is a sham, they can not stop drug trafficing, otherwise they would have. Its all a lie, financed by the Taxpayers, to insure that the Tobacco and Alchohol industries get the lions share of the addicts money.

[kpokey]

Isn't it amazing that this whole article is about law makers fighting between each other, because THEIR TOBACCO COMPANY is not being treated fairly? It's not law makers, whom we elect, fighting for the health and well being of the people of the USA. That should tell you all you need to know. It's fascism...government for the corporation by the corporation. That's what fascism is.

[realpatriot1]

I'm the son of a woman who smoked unfiltered Camels for years and who ultimately contracted emphyzema. She spent the last 10 years of her life connected to an oxygen tank and confined to a couch in her apartment.

When I would visit her, she would pull the oxygen tube away from her mouth and light up. The oxygen would explode, I would jump out of my seat, but she was so used to it that she wouldn't bat an eye. I know how highly addictive cigarettes are and what a monumental struggle it is for people trying to quit.

The issue here isn't about compounding the punishment of smokers by further efforts to make them outcasts. It isn't about outlawing cigarettes
or eliminating entirely the risk of smoking.

It's about eliminating additives that exacerbate the negative health effects without improving the "smoking experience". Is there a real crying need to have polyurethane in cigarettes?

Cigarettes, pot, and alcohol should all be legal and available but controlled and a significant portion of the sales proceeds should be used towards the health, cessation,education, and regulatory needs of society resulting from their use.