Posted on 02/22/2014 4:29:42 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the first time on Friday used its authority under a 2009 law to remove cigarettes from stores.
The FDA is forcing Jash International to stop selling and distributing its line of Sutra Bidi tobacco products in the U.S., and is giving retailers 30 days to pull the products from shelves.
The FDA said Jash did not submit updated applications for a line of cigarettes up for review under The Tobacco Control Act.
Companies with tobacco products on the market when the law passed in 2009 had until 2011 to prove they met new requirements. If they failed to do so, Congress gave the FDA the authority to declare the products illegal.
Friday marks the first time the FDA has ordered a manufacturer of cigarettes to withdraw a product from the market.
The tobacco industry has been under a sustained assault by the Obama administration and Democrats in recent months.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius pledged in an op-ed on Friday that her administration was working “to make the next generation tobacco-free.”
In January, the surgeon general released a report detailing new health consequences related to smoking to mark the 50th anniversary of its landmark report tying smoking to lung cancer.
The surgeon general proposed new “end game” strategies aimed at the 42 million adult and 3 million young adult smokers in the U.S., such as hard-hitting media campaigns, tobacco excise taxes high enough to deter young smokers and easy-to-access cessation treatment.
Meanwhile, some retailers are also beginning to consider whether they want to sell cigarettes at all.
The drug store chain CVS Caremark earlier this month announced it would phase out cigarettes, chewing tobacco and cigars by Oct. 1.
"We've come to the conclusion that cigarettes have no place in a setting where health care is being delivered," said CVS Caremark CEO Larry Merlo.
Democrats are urging other stores to follow CVS’s lead, sending letters to Wal-Mart, Walgreen Co., Rite Aid Corp. and the National Association of Chain Drug Store urging them to stop sales of tobacco products.
In its Friday release, the FDA touted its new control over the tobacco industry.
“Historically, tobacco companies controlled which products came on and off the market without any oversight,” Mitch Zeller, director of the FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products, said in a statement.
“But the Tobacco Control Act gave the FDA, a science-based regulatory agency, the authority to review applications and determine which new tobacco products may be sold and distributed under the law in order to protect public health.”
Just come to Colorado to find this out. Our idiots in State Congress are leading the way in hypocrisy and corruption, led by Gov. Hickencrapper
No problem with that.
I also despise having to pay higher insurance rates in order to cover smoking-related diseases.
Smokers have long paid higher insurance premiums than non-smokers.
But I support the freedom of others to make the choice whether or not to smoke.
As do I.
(Just don’t force me to breathe it or pay for it.)
You never have been forced to do either.
I’d prefer that people choose not to smoke, but I’d prefer even more that the government get out of our private lives.
You won't get an argument from me.
Why are libs “pro-choice” on abortion, but not pro-choice on smoking?
Because they have a misconstrued definition of the word "choice."
And can you imagine the uproar if tattoos and piercings were banned (in the interest of health, of course)?
Uproar over proposed bans on such things come from all sides of the political spectrum.
*** I also despise having to pay higher insurance rates in order to cover smoking-related diseases.***
You need to do more research. Lifetime healthcare costs are actually lower for smokers than non smokers.
They die at a younger age, and healthcare costs skyrocket for older Americans.
So, your lifetime healthcare costs to the system will be more than for the average smoker.
So, then, what about all of those tobacco taxes that states depend on?
Grow your own? without calcium phosphate fertilizer, no Polonium, no cancer.
Please note that nowhere in what is posted does it state any cause or reason for the FDA to act. Still, does it matter? The FDA has no authority over free men... see the post with the Mountain Man owning the judge.
“We’ve come to the conclusion that cigarettes have no place in a setting where health care is being delivered,” said CVS Caremark CEO Larry Merlo.
By climbing into bed with the evil ones in DC CVS has signed
their own death warrant. Now that they have given the gov
a foot in the door next will be alcohol sales, then soda, then god only knows what product the gov will tell them they can’t sell “because it’s bad”....won’t be long before
CVS is belly up. Sell their stock NOW if you own some before it tanks.
The liberal Fascists are busy.
That is my question, are the hypercrits at CVS, going to stop selling booze as well?
I apologize for not responding sooner and in private. Some things completely appall me. In those instances, without any ability to offer more than a cyber hug, I stand silent.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” C.S. Lewis
thats just crazy talk
make you drive to another store to buy alcohol to double the effects of the opiates your doctor prescribed
or to take the edge off those amphetamines
outlandish
Very, very good quote.
okay
I never knew CVS sold booze.
The hypocrisy is astounding.
CVS is nothing more than a grocery/personal items store. The pharmacy is secondary.
The amount of space allotted to beauty items is astonishing.
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When I was in college I lived in a apt building where I had to stick towels under my door to keep me and my cat from getting a contact buzz.
Don’t ever smoke Tobacco. There are over 4,000 chemicals in Tobacco smoke and at least 69 of those chemicals are known to cause cancer. And, nicotine is in itself a natural insecticide.
Do smoke pot. Cannabis has about 4,000 of the same chemicals as Tobacco. However, there is an effort to make Cannabis a cure for cancer. A cure for cancer has been sought for a long time. So, we will wait for a cure for cancer through pot. While we wait, we get stupid.
Is there a cure for stupid?
They are promoting marijuana use through their pimps like Morgan and Morgan in Orlando, Florida and are cracking down on tobacco.
Tobacco stores will enjoy the increase in their profits as ‘other’ stores are shifting away from selling cigaretts.
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