CDC: More teens smoking flavored tobacco

cnn ^ | October 24, 2013 | Jen Christensen

[Drango]

SAD.

Many a FReeper turn a blind eye to child addiction. Then they wonder why other conservative march into voting booths and vote to restrict tobacco.

[Drango]

[JRandomFreeper]

Real conservatives aren't nanny staters. But you've always had this fixation with a legal product.

/johnny

[Drango]

Civilization cannot survive with twelve-year-olds having babies, fifteen-year-olds shooting one another, seventeen-year-olds dying of AIDS, and eighteen-year-olds graduating with diplomas they cannot read.
Newt Gingrich (1997)

Newt didn't mention smoking, but kids becoming addicts isn't a conservative value.

[MeshugeMikey]

I occasionally smoked Maple CIgarettes as an older teenager..just because they were there... and GIRLS seemed to like the idea....

that was fifty years ago.

Im betting that there will be a bill before congress before the month is out to ban ASSAULT FLAVORED CIGARETTES

[JRandomFreeper]

It's already unlawful to sell or give tobacco products to minors. It's already unlawful to sell alcohol to minors. It's already unlawful for minors (or anyone) to have or use illegal drugs.

What more laws do you want? Outlaw tobacco completely?

/johnny

[cripplecreek]

What more laws do you want? Outlaw tobacco completely?

Sure you want an answer? LOL

[Drango]

See you at the voting booth. (Hint: until smokers come up with a solution on kids smoking, voters will restrict all smoking)

[JRandomFreeper]

I've seen this anti-tobacco totalitarian before.

/johnny

[A_Tradition_Continues]

Many a FReeper turn a blind eye to child addiction. Many a FReeper turn a blind eye to child addiction.

This isn't a question of "tobacco addiction." Teenagers are hollowing out the cigars and packing weed in them. This covers the odor of pot burning.

[mylife]

People like you would restrict all FREEDOM.
It has been pointed out that it is already illegal to sell this product to minors.

[cripplecreek]

I wanna outlaw banjos because Adolph Hitler was a championship banjo duelist.

[JRandomFreeper]

Tobacco from my garden early this spring. It's not hard to grow. It isn't taxed. You can't do anything about it.

/johnny

[jjsheridan5]

This isn't a question of "tobacco addiction." Teenagers are hollowing out the cigars and packing weed in them. This covers the odor of pot burning.

Don't apply logic and reason to a perfectly good thread dedicated to hysterical fear-mongering. Get with the program and start thinking about the children, however irrationally.

[cripplecreek]

I’m not sure how well it would grow here but I’m sure there are some teenagers I could get hooked.

Call it my retirement plan. LOL

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

“until smokers come up with a solution on kids smoking, voters will restrict all smoking”

Pen um up. Then you can control all aspects of their lives. It’s for the kids after all.

[rottndog]

Why don’t you just go back to DU where you belong?

[mylife]

Thousands of childrens drown every year.
Ban water!
Ban Swimming pools!
Restrict ocean access!

[JRandomFreeper]

Hey. I've got a banjo. And an accordian.

/johnny

[crazycatlady]

With all due respect, and I could be wrong, but aren’t some of these used to make blunts?

That being said, I don’t support raising the smoking age, in fact I don’t even support a smoking age. I don’t think we had it when I was a kid. I think it was usually up to the storekeeper’s discretion. In small towns, I think there’s a greater fear of opprobrium.
Those “we card” posters are a joke. I’ve seen clerks, usually in dollar or convenience store type places, sell to people that looked 15, even though they had the stupid sign in the window. I’m convinced that these type of stores are where juveniles buy most of their cigarettes.