Posted on 05/15/2005 9:09:22 AM PDT by LouAvul
ALBANY, New York (AP) -- Flavored cigarettes have names that sound like exotic drinks -- Winter Warm Toffee, Twista Chill and Kauai Kolada -- and are advertised on the pages of glossy magazines -- Rolling Stone, Glamour and Elle.
Teens are lighting them up -- and, consequently, lawmakers are trying to ban them.
Congress is considering a bill to prohibit the sale of flavored cigarettes as are New York, Minnesota, West Virginia, Connecticut, Illinois, North Carolina and Texas.
At least one tobacco company, Reynolds American Inc., has already stopped advertising them. Another, Altria, doesn't make candy- or fruit-flavored cigarettes and supports a ban.
"These are designed to attract younger smokers," said Michael Bopp of the American Cancer Society. "We don't want to see a product introduced that will give back the gains we've made in this state in reducing teenage smoking."
A survey released last week by Buffalo's Roswell Park Cancer Institute found that 20 percent of smokers 17 to 19 smoked flavored cigarettes in the past month, compared with just 6 percent of smokers over 25.
"They are using flavors to sweeten the poison," said Dr. Gary Giovino, a senior researcher at the institute.
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Wish they were around when I smoked.
Instead they should target 40-year-olds who never smoked: they have more money and will probably die of something else before they get lung cancer.
aw hell, just let the kids smoke all they want to for 40 years and then have a major heart attack and triple by pass surgery (yeah, i know it wasn't the cigs)a very radical stop smoking program but it worked for me!!!!!!!!!
The smoking, i'm sure didn't help matters, but most of us down here in the bayous don't eat grass and sprouts and stuff like that. Every thing we do is usually geared around food and I mean real food!!!!
I asked my wife which would be better...to die real quick of a heart attack or real slow from starvation??
I have tried very hard to moderate my diet, but my wife just doesn't know how to cook air......after heart surgery, the diet they put you on has one simple rule...if it tastes like food, spit it out!!! you can't have that!!!!!!
Hmmm, I guess next they will begin outlawing sweet alcoholic drinks.
So, what's worse than inhaling tar and nicotine?
Inhaling vaporized scent carrying oils with the tar and nicotine. The oils will coat more of your lung's capacity to absorb oxygen, so you will smoke yourself to suffication long before you can ever get cancer.
This is why they removed cloves from cigarettes; that was popular for a time too.
For some reason, we have had republicans in control for 5 years now and the government still gains more and more control over our life. They need to stop telling people what to put into thier bodies and worry about much more important things.
Clove cigarettes should be illegal.
If they just paid their own medical care I would agree.
So let's start writing that into law. The same way motorcycle riders should get around the bike helmet laws. But we don't do that. No we then make kids wear helments on bikes.
Maybe they should pass a law where you have to be 18 to buy them. Oh wait, we already have that law. Hell, we need a NEW law that they won't enforce then. Idiots.
equal protection
I think that people should be able to not wear seat belts but if they have critical injuries in a traffic accident - oh well, smokers - lung or other cancers - COPD - emphysema - etc oh well out of their pocket and don't run up medicaid or my insurance, don't wear a helmet - don't sue for head injuries.
Actually motorcyclists that wear helmets sue much more often for head injuries and have higher medical costs than those that don't wear helmets. That's because dead people don't sue or need healthcare. States create for themselves hundreds of paraplegics that they must then take care of.
I agree and if they are determined to drink themselves to death, eat themselves to death, or read the NY Times they have the freedom to do that, we're a country founded on personal freedom.
Lets enforce the laws we have.
Isn't it ILLEGAL for someone under 18 to smoke?
If a kid is caught, take away their DRIVERS License. That would stop the problem.
Tough punishment, anyone have the b@lls to propose it?
IMO, the baby boomers won't do this sort of stuff. I'm thinking their kids will be more for limited government.
Now that is truly funny.
Yeah their families do. Either way you are screwed because some moron wants to act out his mid-life crisis by buying a Harley he can't handle and dressing up like a biker because he never said screw it when he was 20.
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