Obama Signs Landmark Anti-Smoking Bill

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[Mind Freed]

President Obama on Monday signed a landmark anti-smoking bill which he said will reduce the number of children who take up smoking and ultimately save American lives.

The bill would give the federal government unprecedented authority to regulate tobacco. The law allows the regulatory Food and Drug Administration to reduce nicotine in tobacco products, ban candy flavorings and block labels such "low tar" and "light." Tobacco companies also will be required to cover their cartons with large graphic warnings.

[Mind Freed]

I didn't see this anywhere yet on Free Republic. If I missed it somewhere and it's a double or triple post... My apologies...

[jtal]

Another chip from the tree of liberty gone.

[AxelPaulsenJr]

The double post police will let you know if you have sinned. But that aside, the words “President Obama” make me want to hurl.

[Domandred]

Too much longer and there won’t be a tree to water

[ElectricStrawberry]

What if I, as an adult, WANT to smoke a candy-flavored light low-tar cigarette?

[paterfamilias]

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The Phony Tobacco War

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Nicotine is the only reason a tobacco consumer consumes tobacco. Aside from the comforting rituals of buying, unwrapping, prepping, fondling, lighting and gesturing with one’s chosen tobacco product, the ultimate purpose of tobacco consumption is the delivery of nicotine to the receptors on specialized brain cells inside the tobacco consumer’s skull. It’s not a big sin; the consumption of nicotine by itself is rather harmless. By itself, nicotine is no more harmful than the caffeine we offer children with every can of Coke or Mountain Dew; it does no harm to the God-given temple of our bodies. It’s all the other useless crap in the smoke that causes asthma attacks and heart disease and makes people cough up those gigantic yellow loogies. So you’d think that anyone who invented an smokeless, odor-free, way to provide nicotine junkies with a quick fix without endangering anyone’s health would be instantly hailed as a genius, a benefactor of mankind and an all-round good Joe. Well, if you think that, then you don’t understand politicians.

[seamusnh]

I have a honey flavored cigar every once in a while. Maybe I should stock up today!!!

[GOPyouth]

Not a single person from the press has asked Gibbs or Obama why he is pushing to limit smoking when the entire funding for SCHIP is dependent upon a massive increase in smoking. Just words....just speeches.

[DustyMoment]

What’s the point??? Politicians have been passing all these anti-smoking laws since the 60s, but people still smoke.

The confusing message they send is they also have smokers footing a lot of what passes for various government healthcare plans today.

So, do they want smokers to pay for other people’s healthcare, or do they REALLY want to end smoking???

I’m confused!!

[Need4Truth]

I suppose now they'll legalize marijuana so they can tax it. Gubmint needs the money.

[Vigilanteman]

He's just given his Muzzie buddies an unprecedented opportunity to fund terrorism by raising the profit potential to bootleg tobacco. It isn't that hard to do: set up a sham wholesaler to buy product from willing sellers, roll them in a warehouse somewhere and ship them out to willing buyers minus the tax.

If you thought the war on drugs was a failure, just wait until you see the war on bootleg tobacco!

[Russ]

If that North Korean ship was carrying tobacco or cigarettes we would be sure to intercept it. Unfortunately it’s only carrying weapons for terrorists...

[Vigilanteman]

I’m not so sure. Muzzies are already moving massive amounts of cigarettes from North Carolina to the Detroit area and our glorious government turns a blind eye. Talk to any trucker who works the Carolinas and Virginia regularly and they’ll tell you.

[centurion316]

I didn’t pay any attention to Obama’s announcement today, but I wonder if he is going after the movie industry, probably the biggest promoter of cigarettes in the world today. Somehow, I doubt it.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Children are already banned from buying cigarettes, so how will this reduce children’s smoking? Because we take away their freedom to pretend to smoke by banning candy cigarettes?

Suppose I buy some candy cigarettes for my children. Who goes to jail, me or the kids? And for how long?

I wish I had bought some before he signed the bill.

I guess we just put more people out of work at the candy cigarette manufacturing plant.

[metmom]

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[metmom]

What with the way the media and the masses worship the guy, he’d get along further by publicly giving up smoking himself and making a big issue of it and challenging others to follow his example.

It’d be cheaper in the long run, too.

[bamahead]

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[Landru]

One more straw on the camel's back and the load continues to grow.

[Rance]

Doesn’t he smoke? i saw this earlier on Fox News and they were saying how he has a lot of nerve lecturing others about smoking when he is a smoker.

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[petitfour]

They’re also gonna ban lollipops, pens, pencils, and any other objects that children could use to simulate smoking.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Once my son pointed his arm at another student and said “bang”, so they cut it off.

:-)

[elkfersupper]

We may have a few people addicted to tobacco in this country, but we have a lot more addicted to government intervention in every aspect of our daily lives.

We should have some kind of law against that.

[petitfour]

LOL

(or is that inappropriate humor?) Well, LOL anyway. LOL

[MinuteGal]

"The agency will be able to prohibit marketing campaigns, especially those geared toward children."

What marketing campaigns has anyone seen or heard that are geared toward children?

Notice how everything totalitarian the dictators of the Left impose on us is done under the guise of "it's for the chillun".

Filthy liars....including Obama.

And the sheeple fall for it, hook, line and stinker.

Leni

[Impy]

Not candy cigarettes, real cigarettes with candy or fruit flavoring.

[Kickass Conservative]

Anybody in my age range, mid fifties, remember when you could buy Chocolate Cigarettes? As I recall, they were really yummy. Used to like those Bubble Gum Cigars as well.

Had those when I was a kid and I don't smoke. I used to have alot of toy guns as a kid, but I haven't shot anyone yet.

The population of today's United States would never endure the hardships of our Parents and Grandparents.

Nothing but spoiled Children in Adult bodies led by a band of power hungry Fools who think they own a money tree.

[Kickass Conservative]

Can we make a Law that requires Abortion Clinics to have “Large Graphic Warnings” painted on the side of the Buildings?

More lives in this country have been lost to Abortion than Smoking, and at a much younger age.

[Nam Vet]

I notice that the KYBO* tickets lately have been chaffing. Will the Beige One be looking into that matter soon? I'll be happy to give him a close look at the results of this problem confronting Americans every day.

Nam Vet

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[Waco]

I can hardly wait for the 1st. official goverment schools to teach me how to smoke so I can smoke pot and get the maximum enjoymnt out of it.

[libertarian27]

President Obama on Monday signed a landmark anti-smoking bill which he said will reduce the number of children who take up smoking and ultimately save American lives.

If it really was about reducing the amount of children taking up smoking they would have put the age limit to purchase and possess at 21 (like alcohol).

There are only two lines in the bill that address the smoking age, in a nut shell it says they will study, withing a 5 year window, the impact on smoking rates if it age went to 21.

Raising the smoking age would cut underage smoking, what they really need to study is the impact of the tax revenue if they raised the age to 21. Tax 'em if you got 'em. Philip Morris wrote this bill.

[CSM]

Well, as long as we aren’t tapping phone calls placed to known terrorist cells overseas. I’m so glad we are rid of that Bushchimpyhitlerfascist!

(Come on, is a sarc tag really needed?)

[paterfamilias]

HAH! THE FREE MARKET RESPONSE TO LOW-TAR, LOW-NICOTINE CIGARETTES!