Posted on 03/04/2009 12:31:47 PM PST by FocusNexus
A House panel is expected to approve today sweeping tobacco regulation that would put the bill on pace for House passage far earlier in the congressional session than in the last Congress.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee vote, expected this afternoon or evening, would give the Food and Drug Administration the power to police the tobacco industry.
The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (H.R. 1256) is nearly identical to a bill the House passed by a wide margin last summer. The Senate did not take action last year.
Health advocates -- comfortable their bill will pass the House again this Congress -- are already looking to the Senate where they ran out of time last year.
Democrats contend FDA is the right agency to police tobacco. They would pay for the regulation through a tax on cigarettes that would start at about a penny per cigarette pack this year and rise to at least 5 cents per pack within a decade, generating between $85 million and $712 million per year, according to committee staff.
(Excerpt) Read more at mgwashington.com ...
Another industry goes under for the last time.
if I smoked, I would quit just to scr** them
It's a good thing that al Qaeda got out of the cigarette bootlegging business, or this would be a mighty nice source of revenue for them.
Well I guess I will be getting thrown in the penn for drug possession, now too, huh? I am sooooo proud of my country for thinking they have the right to run the lives citizens.
Gee, does this mean that the increases in SCHIP that just passed and were signed into law won’t get paid for by a cigarette tax? I thought that was the Democrat plan! Did I miss something? Or were they just lying?
F*** these communists.
this means that SCHIP will have to funded by tax increases, oh joy to the world.
“Well I guess I will be getting thrown in the penn for drug possession, now too, huh? I am sooooo proud of my country for thinking they have the right to run the lives citizens.”
About damn time too, now you will know what us pot smokers have to deal with day in & day out.
First they came for the...
I woke up this morning thinking the same thing
More info:
Bill Would Put Tobacco Under FDA Control
Under Legislation, Agency Could Require Removal of Harmful Chemicals, Additives
“give the FDA the authority to require the removal of harmful chemicals and additives from cigarettes. “
Take out nicotine?
After all of the second hand smoke consensus was debunked as fraud, these idiots are persuing US citizens,and singleing them out for more taxes.
The same for gorebull warming.
From the article in the WP, in post 11:
“The bill, championed by Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.) and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), has bipartisan support in both houses and backing from President Obama, himself a smoker who has struggled to quit. “The prospects are really good,” said Dick Woodruff, director for federal affairs at the American Cancer Society’s lobbying group. “This is the year.”
I’m quitting right now because of the tax pile-on from the feds and the State of NC, but now I have yet another reason to drop my 30-year habit. As I contemplate hijacking a cigarette truck in my reverie, I fear they may go after single malt and lager beer next — the only vices I have left! Communists suck!
So I guess this means I’ll have to switch from a pipe to something the left approves of...like marijuana or cocaine!
Another industry goes under for the last time.”
How many days ago did they vote on the SCHIPS bill for health care for children (to the age of 30), which is going to be funded by taxes on cigarettes?
Where will the funding come from?
There is absolutely no way the Democraps know what one hand is doing while the other does something else.
No kidding, these people are complete morons. First they raise a massive tax on tobacco to pay for their health care and then they’ll impose impossible regulations on the tobacco companies and wipe out the source of income they were counting on.
Oh get over yourself. You smoke an illegal substance. If tthe govt decides to try and enact prohibition against tobacco then you can draw the comparison. The reason the Senate did not act on this before is precisely because it will not pass. Tobacco farming states ( in the South)have enough clout to squash it. Next time engage in something legal for a change
"This is a big gift to Philip Morris and a big scam," Joel Nitzkin, chairman of the tobacco-control task force of the American Association of Public Health Physicians, told the Post. "Our initial impression was, 'Gee, this would be great.' But when we read through the entire 160 pages, we were horrified by what we saw."AND . . .
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/03/AR2009030303661.html
According to the New York Times, public health physicians are among those who don't like the legislation as it's currently written. "This bill will be worse than no bill at all," the group's chairman told the Times.My suggested resolution for this legislation is included in my tagline.
http://www.fiercepharma.com/story/fda-tobacco-bill-advances-congress/2009-03-02
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