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Obama Signs Landmark Anti-Smoking Bill
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Posted on 06/22/2009 12:46:41 PM PDT by 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.
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: bho44; cigarettes; lping; nannystate; obama; smokingban
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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...
To: Mind Freed
Another chip from the tree of liberty gone.
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posted on
06/22/2009 12:48:17 PM PDT
by
jtal
To: Mind Freed
The double post police will let you know if you have sinned. But that aside, the words “President Obama” make me want to hurl.
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posted on
06/22/2009 12:49:08 PM PDT
by
AxelPaulsenJr
(Please God Save The United States From The Democrats, and Barack Hussein Obama. Amen.)
To: jtal
Too much longer and there won’t be a tree to water
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posted on
06/22/2009 12:50:03 PM PDT
by
Domandred
(Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.)
To: Mind Freed
What if I, as an adult, WANT to smoke a candy-flavored light low-tar cigarette?
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posted on
06/22/2009 12:51:07 PM PDT
by
ElectricStrawberry
(27th Infantry Regiment....cut in half during the Clinton years...)
To: Mind Freed
To: Mind Freed
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posted on
06/22/2009 12:55:19 PM PDT
by
SpaceBar
To: SpaceBar
excerpt...
Nicotine is the only reason a tobacco consumer consumes tobacco. Aside from the comforting rituals of buying, unwrapping, prepping, fondling, lighting and gesturing with ones chosen tobacco product, the ultimate purpose of tobacco consumption is the delivery of nicotine to the receptors on specialized brain cells inside the tobacco consumers skull. Its 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. Its 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 youd think that anyone who invented an smokeless, odor-free, way to provide nicotine junkies with a quick fix without endangering anyones 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 dont understand politicians.
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posted on
06/22/2009 12:58:51 PM PDT
by
SpaceBar
To: jtal
I have a honey flavored cigar every once in a while. Maybe I should stock up today!!!
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posted on
06/22/2009 1:03:55 PM PDT
by
seamusnh
To: paterfamilias
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.
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posted on
06/22/2009 1:05:15 PM PDT
by
GOPyouth
(Obama's against running GM, except when he's not.)
To: Mind Freed
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!!
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posted on
06/22/2009 1:08:32 PM PDT
by
DustyMoment
(FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
To: Mind Freed
I suppose now they'll legalize marijuana so they can tax it. Gubmint needs the money.
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posted on
06/22/2009 1:10:44 PM PDT
by
Need4Truth
(Washington DC is a foreign entity.)
To: Mind Freed
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!
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posted on
06/22/2009 1:20:11 PM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(Are there any men left in Washington? Or, are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
To: Vigilanteman
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...
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posted on
06/22/2009 1:22:56 PM PDT
by
Russ
(Repeal the 17th amendment)
To: Russ
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.
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posted on
06/22/2009 1:32:20 PM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(Are there any men left in Washington? Or, are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
To: Mind Freed
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.
To: Mind Freed
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.
To: bamahead; Eric Blair 2084
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posted on
06/22/2009 1:45:11 PM PDT
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: Mind Freed
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.
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posted on
06/22/2009 1:46:51 PM PDT
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: metmom; Abathar; Abcdefg; Abram; Abundy; akatel; albertp; AlexandriaDuke; Alexander Rubin; ...
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posted on
06/22/2009 3:05:15 PM PDT
by
bamahead
(Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
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