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FDA Regulation of Tobacco will Aid in War Against Smoking

24 comments FDA Regulation of Tobacco will Aid in War Against Smoking

In a decisive victory in the war against smoking last week, both the House and the Senate voted by wide margins to give the FDA regulatory control over nicotine in cigarettes, clearing the way for an enthusiastic President Obama’s signature.

It is estimated that 3,500 young people smoke their first cigarette each day. Smoking causes an estimated 400,000 deaths in the United States annually and costs $100 billion in health care costs, amazing statistics when you consider it has been 45 years since the surgeon general’s warning that smoking causes lung cancer. 

Smoking is a massive drain on health — and health care costs — no small matter given today’s health care reform debate and talk of controlling costs.

Passage of the bill will aid in the effort to prevent smoking-related death and disease and keep young people from taking up smoking at all. Earlier this year, Congress approved a 62-cent per pack increase in the federal cigarette tax in order to pay for a children’s health program, and smoking bans on a state level have been increasing steadily — making smoking an expensive and problematic habit to maintain. 

Some of the key provisions of the bill would

* ban tobacco sponsorships of sports and entertainment events

* ban all outdoor tobacco advertising within 1,000 feet of schools and playgrounds

* limit point-of-sale advertising to adult-only facilities

* limit cigarette vending machines to places restricted to adults

* ban advertising cigarettes as light, mild, or safer products

* ban candy flavors aimed at young people

* require tobacco product manufacturers to disclose all ingredients as well as research into the health, toxicological, behavioral, or physiologic effects of tobacco products to the FDA.

Truly an extraordinary — and long overdue — step toward weakening the hold of tobacco products over smokers, and decreasing the number of people who will suffer health problems or death as a consequence. 

Getting them while they’re young is bar far the best way to prevent new smokers from lighting up. 

For complete details of the H.R. 1256, visit gov.track.us.

For more on tobacco and smoking:

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11:57AM PDT on Aug 31, 2009

1. The lawyers who handled the tobacco case were representing the smokers.
2. They sued the tobacco companies for "damages".
3. The smokers lost their right to sue individually.
4. The tobacco companies are now "protected" from those individual lawsuit rights the individuals had.

That is the basis of the Tobacco Protection Racket.

It was handled by Orin Hatch (R-Utah), Trent Lotts brother and three other attorneys.

Each of them will become richer than Bill Gates from their continuing payments from the tax.

They have no payroll, no product and contribute nothing more to society.

3% or less of the tobacco tax is spent on "helping the smoker (victim). That help is described as "public announcements that deter smoking".

The rest is used by greedy groups for their own self-interests.

Everyone in America should wake up to these facts and see the Tobacco Protection Racket for what it is.

The total worth of 5 Bill Gates would make a huge dent in National Healthcare. Smokers would actually receive benefits from the lawsuit that was won on their behalf.

Now I know we will never recover the Billions that have already been paid to these Racketeers but we could cut off any further payments and direct those funds to National Healthcare.

What do you think America???

12:12AM PDT on Jul 10, 2009

Father I pray that each of my Angels, gain more and more fath in me each day.
For it is only your words I speak.
You know,that I only speak in truth, as you teach me each day, and I know that if I were to tell a lie, I would suffer much punishment.
I only ask you Lord for my life each day to work, and to be able to teach all on behalf of you, to be able to bring down your comands and laws as you gave Moses, Zarathustra, and Proffits that have ever lived. My mision is not an easy one but I gain so much strength from the Oils that come from the seeds.
Which have gathered all the green energy from the Sun light.
To drink a little for food so creamy and filling, My standing in the sun light for strength.
All have to be balanced, not only in the world, but in the Temple of the body, were you live, and dwell.
The children do not know that you have been with them creating, in there freedom of choice, the ways of each persons have choice to create or distroy there body's.
All there suffering is only brought on each day with there wrongfull ways that each do.Help me teach them Father.
Thank you Father for each of the gift that you have given me of Sight,Smell, Tast, Touch, For all the Angels that look after the body Organs, and please let them all know That I love them and thank them all for being there sent by you and blessed with your love from you . Janet.

1:41PM PDT on Jul 2, 2009

Ms. Nora J., Whatever Ms. Janet is smoking gives her much philisophical wisdom, a pity more of children running this land isn't smoking it as well.

12:54AM PDT on Jun 30, 2009

I am smoking Amber Leaf at this moment in time, hand rolled and rubed with a little Vinilla Essence.
Somtimes I smoke a pipe and I also have a holder.
Most of my well being is through the Hemp plant.
With Pain relief, I take C.B.D Oil.
This is Olive Oil with The Essence of the hemp plant in it, with no T.H.C.
If I am in severe pain, God Forbid, I Smoke the plant That has no T.H.C.
It has been removed by extraction, It is only the Flowers That contain any real Pain relief.
There is another old remidee that has been handed down to you scince the begining of time, Whiskey in the Jar.
Instant relief.
IF YOU NEED A LITTLE MORE LAUGHTER IN YOUR LIFE THEN TAKE IN T.H.C.
Yes even the Gods like a little laugh at times my friends and Angels.
I also give you the Food, that comes from the hemp plant try drinking the lovely creamy Oil.
Just two capfulls per day gives you so much energy from the Sunlight.
Colected from the Rays of the sun with green energy that is pure Sunlight comeing down into the Earth.
You can even get your clothes,Plastics, Ropes, Denam,Paper that last for years, If you were to make your Nurses Uniforms, and Doctors Coats, out of this hemp plant fabric, you will start your healing, bandeges, put back into the ground for it will stop the Bacteria that is building up in the Earth.
So yes this is a very important message God gave you this and it is time to put it back were it belongs. Thank you Father for your strength and for this plant, Janet.

8:42PM PDT on Jun 29, 2009

I'd like to know what Janet is smoking!!??

7:36PM PDT on Jun 29, 2009

Urine is heavy than water, so if I pee in one end of the pool, you will be fine swimming and drinking in the other end, RIGHT?

Wrong. It permiates everything and everybody, even if you don't want it.

Passing gas (a fart) is hot air and will rise in the car, but it spreads like fire all over. Can't believe someone would say that it doesn't.

6:50AM PDT on Jun 29, 2009

Smoke rises up into the air, goes out of an open window.
It can do no harm to anyone else. It should only be smoked in the right places like the top deck of a bus or back of coach last two rows, a public bar for the men and woman after there hard days work.
The problems you have made for yourselves, by taking away the freedom of choice.
You have closed most of these watering holes. In the mountains all are looking for a way to give the smoker a special place to get the trade back.
A smoke room should always be in place for the people who smoke, and those who do not wish to smoke, should be given there room for none smoking.
We smokers have been paying for years the tax bill for not only are habit, but for the hospitles, that most of the none smokers seem to be constently visiting.
You will not find a smoker laying around in a hospitle bed as soon as we come around were up, and going out for our smoke.
Do you not realise that most of us who smoke live a long time?
Think for a bit, I said most, who are old.

It is the children that we are loseing.

Yes I lost my lovely daughter, but not to smoking.
she died by Phama Cures.


We whant equale rights give us a place for us to smoke.
Watch out for there lies, they have spun you over the years. They are trying to cover up all the harm that they have done to you alowing the removeal of tar and nicotine, keep well my Angels.
I remember the good old days bring them back. Love to you all Janet.

5:39AM PDT on Jun 29, 2009

Please listen to my words carfully.
Only smoke the corect leaves. Dried by the growers, organicly.
They know how to dry the leaves corectly, by lighting herbs and grasses that have growing on there land in plenty.
The tast of the leaf will differ, from one producer with another, Each producer having put its own aromatic smell with whatever he has growing in plenty.
It should be smoked by rolling it in its own leaf, or shreded up and placed in a pipe.
The nicotine and tar should be left in the leaf.
A warning to you, if one tiny bit of this tobaco enters the mouth it will be very unpleasant.
The tar and nicatean will be collected in the stem of the pipe and Ladies if you would like to join the gentleman you should be a little more lady like and buy yourselves a cigerette holder,for when you tast the tar and nicotine you would never whant another one.No addiction will ever be had by anyone for its a disgusting habbit. Only ment for the Wise.
This plant is for calming of the mind and contemplation to help you relaxe after a hard days work.
If a child were ever to get hold of a leaf and try to smoke it you would laugh at his or her face for it would be disgusting to there tast buds.
Come on now no more of these so called tayler made and have a real smoke like my Father did in his pipe. Love you all my Angels Thank you Father for all my lessons I give out in Truth Janet.

1:59AM PDT on Jun 29, 2009

Many of the Regulations in this Bill have been To Long Coming; However Taxes are only as good as How the funds are applied...

My idea is to Allow Freedom For Informed Choices....But Tax All Risky behaviours/habits; For Costs Plus1% at the Purchase/Rental/Service Point. Thus Covering Healthcare/Social costs in advance.



Tax all existing Biz for thier Waste/Polution on a + 10% cost basis So they can catch up non all Past Crimes, and cleanup tax, All Foreign Exploiters Till They Hemorage Money and Go to Jail for thier intenational Crimes;



And Give New Biz a Chance to Make informed Choice That Saves them The Higher taxes, and Contributes to a Cleaner world....



Freedom of Choice and Fair Accountability;
the Only Just Government

10:15AM PDT on Jun 28, 2009

As far as I am concerned the FDA is not doing anyone a favor. All it is going to do is make us smokers buy more and smoke more. Since nicotine is the addictive drug we need to fill our addiction, where is this going to help.

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