Obama Signs Landmark Anti-Smoking Bill

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[Mind Freed]

President Obama on Monday signed a landmark anti-smoking bill which he said will reduce the number of children who take up smoking and ultimately save American lives.

The bill would give the federal government unprecedented authority to regulate tobacco. The law allows the regulatory Food and Drug Administration to reduce nicotine in tobacco products, ban candy flavorings and block labels such "low tar" and "light." Tobacco companies also will be required to cover their cartons with large graphic warnings.

[Mind Freed]

I didn't see this anywhere yet on Free Republic. If I missed it somewhere and it's a double or triple post... My apologies...

[jtal]

Another chip from the tree of liberty gone.

[AxelPaulsenJr]

The double post police will let you know if you have sinned. But that aside, the words “President Obama” make me want to hurl.

[Domandred]

Too much longer and there won’t be a tree to water

[ElectricStrawberry]

What if I, as an adult, WANT to smoke a candy-flavored light low-tar cigarette?

[paterfamilias]

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The Phony Tobacco War

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Nicotine is the only reason a tobacco consumer consumes tobacco. Aside from the comforting rituals of buying, unwrapping, prepping, fondling, lighting and gesturing with one’s chosen tobacco product, the ultimate purpose of tobacco consumption is the delivery of nicotine to the receptors on specialized brain cells inside the tobacco consumer’s skull. It’s not a big sin; the consumption of nicotine by itself is rather harmless. By itself, nicotine is no more harmful than the caffeine we offer children with every can of Coke or Mountain Dew; it does no harm to the God-given temple of our bodies. It’s all the other useless crap in the smoke that causes asthma attacks and heart disease and makes people cough up those gigantic yellow loogies. So you’d think that anyone who invented an smokeless, odor-free, way to provide nicotine junkies with a quick fix without endangering anyone’s health would be instantly hailed as a genius, a benefactor of mankind and an all-round good Joe. Well, if you think that, then you don’t understand politicians.

[seamusnh]

I have a honey flavored cigar every once in a while. Maybe I should stock up today!!!

[GOPyouth]

Not a single person from the press has asked Gibbs or Obama why he is pushing to limit smoking when the entire funding for SCHIP is dependent upon a massive increase in smoking. Just words....just speeches.

[DustyMoment]

What’s the point??? Politicians have been passing all these anti-smoking laws since the 60s, but people still smoke.

The confusing message they send is they also have smokers footing a lot of what passes for various government healthcare plans today.

So, do they want smokers to pay for other people’s healthcare, or do they REALLY want to end smoking???

I’m confused!!

[Need4Truth]

I suppose now they'll legalize marijuana so they can tax it. Gubmint needs the money.

[Vigilanteman]

He's just given his Muzzie buddies an unprecedented opportunity to fund terrorism by raising the profit potential to bootleg tobacco. It isn't that hard to do: set up a sham wholesaler to buy product from willing sellers, roll them in a warehouse somewhere and ship them out to willing buyers minus the tax.

If you thought the war on drugs was a failure, just wait until you see the war on bootleg tobacco!

[Russ]

If that North Korean ship was carrying tobacco or cigarettes we would be sure to intercept it. Unfortunately it’s only carrying weapons for terrorists...

[Vigilanteman]

I’m not so sure. Muzzies are already moving massive amounts of cigarettes from North Carolina to the Detroit area and our glorious government turns a blind eye. Talk to any trucker who works the Carolinas and Virginia regularly and they’ll tell you.

[centurion316]

I didn’t pay any attention to Obama’s announcement today, but I wonder if he is going after the movie industry, probably the biggest promoter of cigarettes in the world today. Somehow, I doubt it.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Children are already banned from buying cigarettes, so how will this reduce children’s smoking? Because we take away their freedom to pretend to smoke by banning candy cigarettes?

Suppose I buy some candy cigarettes for my children. Who goes to jail, me or the kids? And for how long?

I wish I had bought some before he signed the bill.

I guess we just put more people out of work at the candy cigarette manufacturing plant.

[metmom]

ping

[metmom]

What with the way the media and the masses worship the guy, he’d get along further by publicly giving up smoking himself and making a big issue of it and challenging others to follow his example.

It’d be cheaper in the long run, too.

[bamahead]

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