Comments on: Hot Topic: How Much Should The U.S. Regulate Tobacco?

[mainermike]

AS I SEE IT, by Mike "Mainer Mike" Brown.

So because it's legal to eat fattening foods, it should therefore be legal to use cigarettes?

I have to disagree that statement.

[novamba]

Nice how so many people say we can't regulate tobacco, because then everything will be regulated. So we can't regulate one of the worst killers in our culture, because somehow this will lead to other regulation? That's just dumb.

Nobody says Tobacco is not bad. Tobacco is legal, albeit a killer, but so is Fat. Why cant we decide what we want to put in our bodies?

[debinok1]

This is AS I SEE IT, by Mike "Mainer Mike" Brown.

If I were addicted to cigarettes, the chances of me being able to quit cold turkey is about as high as me staying away from donuts, cookies, and ring dings.

So it's a good thing that I don't smoke.
Posted by mainermike

Those are next, mark my words. When they can no longer use the tobacco scapegoat, those types of foods will come under fire, as will any other unhealthy or bad for you thing they can find. Better get ready for it.

[novamba]

In the very near future, we will have the FDA regulate how much fat content can be ingested by an overweight person, or doled out by a restaurant and tax any excess. The resulting revenue will go to educate kids on the evils of fat (5%), and the rest to shore up medicare or who knows what other worthless government enterprise. We are allowing our freedom to choose to be legislated away by a government more interested in being our nanny. When do we face the music for our actions?

Nice how so many people say we can't regulate tobacco, because then everything will be regulated. So we can't regulate one of the worst killers in our culture, because somehow this will lead to other regulation? That's just dumb.

[mainermike]

This is AS I SEE IT, by Mike "Mainer Mike" Brown.

If I were addicted to cigarettes, the chances of me being able to quit cold turkey is about as high as me staying away from donuts, cookies, and ring dings.

So it's a good thing that I don't smoke.

[pw08-2009]

nikosk11,

I agree with you. I quit cold turkey too and it was something I never thought I could do. But for those of you who have never smoked, you should just stay off this string.

[pw08-2009]

Congress is full of hypocrites because they effectively muscled their way into tobacco because it makes so much money. Does anyone remember all the money they stole from tobacco to supposedly educate our children about it's dangers? And what actually happened to that money? Special interests happened and it was squandered for anything they could spend it on and now because it still makes so much money, they want to own it all.

[debinok1]

Today: Tobacco

Next:
Salt
Sugar
Caffeine
Alcohol
Red Meat
White Flour
Medicinal Herbs

Never:
Air pollution
Smog
Tailpipe exhaust
Toxic Water
Toxic Food
Toxic Medicine

They will never go after the corporations that are really killing us. No matter how many studies show that the true culprit is Industrialization. Studies have been done in countries without industrialization, they have higher rates of smoking and lower rates of cancer. They will not go after their cash cows, they will continue to go after the people they govern, because we cannot line their pockets. Wake up people this is not being done for us it is being done to us. If the government was really interested in protecting us, they would clean up our air, our water, our food supply. Get off the band wagon and take back control of our country before it has total control of us.

[mainermike]

AS I SEE IT --- Mike "Mainer Mike" Brown.

Most people can't quit cold turkey. So the best way is for the government to do everything it can to stop people from starting in the first place.