[Rebelbase]

Wasington Post Auto Excerpted.

Phillip Morris has profit in mind by advocating FDA approval. Its my understanding that they already have the Lot tracking process implemented.

FDA approval will put the little guys and imports out of business due to the significant costs associated with Lot tracking.

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PUFF

FMCDH(BITS)

[Captain Rabbit]

Exactly right. Dewine and Davis should be ashamed supporting this indirect form of corporate welfare. Altria supports it because they know that it will stifle competition.

Only through the government can monopolies exist, and this liberal attempt at regulation and intrusion into the market only serves to remind us of that fact.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Somehow I think this has nothing to do with health and everything to do with politics.

[Just another Joe]

PM is a sham. They don't care about the consumer at all.

Stuff your own and send them packing.

[Lunatic Fringe]

Isn't it about time these guys were put out of business?

There are absolutely NO health benefits of smoking and tons of data to indicate it is pure poison. There is no other product on the market that, used as directed, will kill you as certainly as tobacco will.

Rarely does a grown adult take up the habit of smoking. Smokers start as children. Once hooked on nicotine, it is extremely difficult to quit. I know- I started smoking at 14 years old and it took me almost 20 years before I got the willpower to quit.

I know that as conservatives, we share a belief in personal responsibility. But the fact is that tobacco is the means of delivering an addictive drug, nicotine.

[hosepipe]

No honest person would ever associate his name with the likes of Waxman and Kennedy.. DeWine and Davis bear watching and propably freeping..

[Gabz]

You are absolutely correct about Philip Morris.

PM is looking for government sanctioned manopoly status here, just like they did when they agreed to the 1998 MSA and basically forced the hand of the other big companies to go along with them.

[CJ Wolf]

Ok, my first and only question on this is...

1. I grow my own tobacco for my own consumption, will I be able to continue to grow it or does this practice now become illegal?

[SheLion]

Roll Your Own!  Buy the Supermatic Machine off of the net.  Tobacco and filtered tubes locally.

 
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Smokers United

[Wolfie]

Got to hand it to Phillip Morris. They're forward thinking, and just may end up cornering the market.