Candy and Fruit Flavored Cigarettes Now Illegal in United States; Step is First Under New Tobacco Law
Thought I'd make this a new thread so that everyone could see.
Thought I'd make this a new thread so that everyone could see.
This "selling to children" crap is getting old. In case the FDA can't figure out WHY teens start smoking is NOT because of the "flavors", but because it's the "cool thing to do". Was like that when I was a teen starting smoking, and it will be like that 100 years from now.
Trivia - The most popular brand of cigarettes being smoked by teens in the US is, you guessed it, MARLBORO, the very brand the FDA is protecting by this "bill".
Sources:
Marlboro top choice of regular teen smokers - AP Online | Encyclopedia.com
Marlboro Top Choice of Regular Teen Smokers - ABC News
The FDA really needs to get its head out of it's ....
The FDA really needs to get its head out of it's ....
does that mean aftermarket flavorings such as "tasty puff" are banned too?
So are they going to force Big Tabacco to stop making Menthol flavored cigarettes now ???
or are they leaving the Big Boys a loophole
Hey Jim. I've seen most of your vids so I can picture that same anger and emotion you have when directing the FDA, and I agree wholeheartedly. Some marketing practice are a bit ignorant, but when the marketing has nothing whatsoever to do with teenagers it makes for a rather redundant practice.
As has been said before - if the FDA was really concerned with flavorings being a primary target for teenage smoking, why the hell can you get alcohol in pretty much any flavor you can think of? Isn't several hundred flavors of alcohol worse than a few handfuls of flavors for cigarettes?
Seems to me like, if that's the case, alcohol should have been banned a long time ago.
Like that's going to happen!
It's always "for the children" isn't it? I think we need a whole lot less people in Washington. Maybe then they'd stop spending so much money and trying to micro-manage our lives.