Not just an idiot, but evil too.
Posted on 01/07/2025 7:34:20 PM PST by packagingguy
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is moving forward with a regulatory rule in the final days of the Biden administration that would effectively ban cigarettes currently on the market in favor of products with lower nicotine levels, which could end up boosting business for cartels operating on the black market, an expert tells Fox News Digital.
"Biden's ban is a gift with a bow and balloons to organized crime cartels with it, whether it's cartels, Chinese organized crime, or Russian mafia. It's going to keep America smoking, and it's going to make the streets more violent," Rich Marianos, former assistant director of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the current chair of the Tobacco Law Enforcement Network, told Fox News Digital of the proposal.
The FDA confirmed to Fox Digital on Monday that as of Jan. 3, the Tobacco Product Standard for Nicotine Level of Certain Tobacco Products had completed a regulatory review, but that the proposed rule has not yet been finalized…
"This decision is being thrown down the public's throat without one ounce of thought and preparation. Nobody sat down with law enforcement, nobody sat down with any doctors, No one sat down with any regulators to find out, ‘Hey, look, what are the unintended ramifications of such a poor choice,’ and that's what I'm going to call it, a poor choice," Marianos said.
He explained that Mexican cartels are well-positioned to bring illegal tobacco across the border, as they do with substances such as fentanyl that have devastated communities across the U.S., while Chinese criminal organizations have some of the best counterfeit operations stretching from baby formula to cigarettes, and Russian organized crime groups have their foot in the door in cities across the nation…
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This will be like prohibition on steroids, but without the constitutional amendment to enact a ban.
THIS !!!
Canada would import Virginua tobacco, roll it, and sell it back to us without the BS chemicals. Pricey, though.
And another 10% kickback for the Big Guy from the black marketeers.
Smoke em if you gottem.... I know... flack for that. Fing Brandon and them all.
His staffers were bribed. So they're doing this and hope it'll stick even though it's likely that the Trump Administration is going to overturn it on Day One.
If you're working for Biden and the Cartels paid you one million dollars to do this, you'll get it done.
And heeeeeeere we go: from bathtub gin to bathtub cigarettes. Utopia is always just one more ban away.
Nanny State PING!
Is RediKurous !
May help me quit——NOT.
Wow, I hope they pass it and Trump hangs it around democrats necks. There are more smokers among democrat voters than republican voters. Will make him real popular in the hood.
Exactly the points I was thinking of. I have never smoked cigarettes, but it is freedom. It seems to me, if Biden can do it, Trump can undo it.
I guess you will have to roll your own.
They can’t ban cigarette paper because their constituents use them to smoke skunk weed.
It’s almost as if they had a study group who’s task was to come up with every evil the Federal government can get away with inflicting on the population - and now all the results are being activated.
This is a double hit—most states are totally addicted to cigarette taxes—will crush their budgets.
Best cig I ever had was from a pack of luckys in my great grandpas fishing tackle box. Non filter. Must have been 50-60 years old. It was like... closest think i can think of is super fine Schoch.
Scotch.
Joe: And don’t forget 10% for the Big Guy. I forgot the words to happy birthday but I didn’t forget my 10%.
They want people smoking marijuana but want to ban tobacco cigarettes.
This is a double hit—most states are totally addicted to cigarette taxes—will crush their budgets.
State tax revenue is $3.9 trillion, tabaco taxes are $19.5 billion. I don’t think it will be much of a dent on state finances for most states.
2021 State Government Revenue:..............$3,975,040,333,000.00
2021 State Tabaco Tax Revenue:.................$19,481,996,000.00
Percent of the Total:.......................................0.49%
Not easy to find this data, but I eventually did. Several sources had some of the info, but not the answers. They were all anti smoking entities. (both numbers comes from the census bureau, but not in the same reports.)
But it will sure lose votes for the Democrats.
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