Posted on 06/22/2009 2:15:39 PM PDT by franky8
The law will force cigarette packs to carry graphic warnings and forbid the use of terms like "mild" and "low tar" in tobacco advertisements. By July 2011, the top half of the front and rear panels of cigarette boxes will consist of warnings.
Government getting into social behaviour???
Reminds me of the SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING the government put into effect with the cigarette law by the FTC in 1973. Doesn't work!
A colleague of mine was an FTC attorney who was one of the people responsible for enforcing the law. He told me at the time, "Of course nicotine is addictive and all the effort in reducing the use or trying to change people's nicotine habits produced more smoking. For all the reductions in the ingredients and usage there was more smoking to replace the lost nicotine"...and the government knew it.
In 77 years I never smoked and feel sorry for those addicted.
People make changes not bureaucrats. Even Obama smokes.
"Getting into"??? What, have you been living under a rock for 40 years? Social behavior has been within the government's scope for a very long time, FRiend.
Oh, and welcome to FR!
The irony is that a purposefully high nicotine “coffin nail” would bring about smoking of fewer cigarettes and lessen smoking related illness. It’s possible to moderate tar without hurting nicotine yield too much. Nicotine per se is not the culprit in most smoking related ailments, it is other stuff which comes off of the burning weed. The good Lord never intended us to imitate dragons and breathe fire.
are these like the stupid warnings in Canada where they plaster photos of diseased lungs all over the package? All that does is spur sales of little cases and cozies that hide the pictures. And advertising restrictions on “mild” or “low tar”? There isn’t any place left that they are allowed to advertise that I’m aware of. If the current Surgeon General’s Warning doesn’t do it for you then none of this silliness will.
I am a non-smoker and do not like second hand smoke at all.
However, if it is legal I stay away from smokers and cigarettes, you do not have to protect me from myself.
In the not-to-distant future, smoking will be illegal, as will eating meat, exposure to the sun and running with scissors.
Ohhhh The Pity! Spare me!
The bureaucrats have made billions of $$ off drug companies that claim they have a magic patch to cure people...blah blah blah! Leon Panetta started this BS! Leon along with others..are so attached with Chantaxs..etc,its easy to understand the Breau-Rats don't give a rats a$$! Either way they profit! Considering Obama a damn chain smoker endorses the FDA’s expanded mandates,makes me gage!!
Ohhhh The Pity! Spare me!
The bureaucrats have made billions of $$ off drug companies that claim they have a magic patch to cure people...blah blah blah! Leon Panetta started this BS! Leon along with others..are so attached to Chantacs..etc,it is easy to understand the Breau-Rats don't give a rats a$$! Either way they profit! Considering Obama is a damn chain smoker, endorses the FDA’s expanded mandates,makes me erp in my throat!
Thank you for the welcome.
I’ve been here for years but my PC lost my posting information and ability
I do remember when government did let us have our freedom but that has gone by the wayside. I remember when we fought against the “Great Society” and I even remember my parents’ complaining about Roosevelt’s NRA and the 1 or 2 percent SS tax.
“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money -—”
Alexis de Tocqueville
Golly . . . isn’t he a smoker? I betcha’ there’s ashtrays in the White House . . . But then that’s god’s throne room, isn’t it?
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