I am loving how the truth seems to be finally coming out about this bill. More and more reporters and journalists are giving accurate accounts of what's going on behind the scenes. This is another one as reported by the Bangor Daily News.
Legislation is blowing smoke - Bangor Daily News
The bill in question was crafted, in part, by the nations leading cigarette company, Philip Morris, as part of a deal worked out between the tobacco giant and an antismoking group the Campaign for tobacco-Free Kids. The health groups supporting the legislation have been seduced by the few concessions that Philip Morris dangled before them and have lost sight of the long-term damage that this bill will do to the publics health.
Perhaps most absurd is the bills treatment of new and potentially safer products, such as electronic cigarettes. The evidence is still out on whether electronic cigarettes, which deliver nicotine with water vapor rather than smoke, would actually help wean people from tobacco cigarettes. But why would Congress want to ban po-tentially safer products and continue to allow the deadliest nicotine product conventional cigarettes to remain on the market?
During the previous administration, the FDA was accused of making decisions based on politics, not health. If the Senate passes the FDA tobacco legislation, it will be institutionalizing, rather than ending, the triumph of politics over science in federal policymaking. This is not the way to restore science to its rightful place.
I bolded the biggest question I have on this whole issue? I also wonder if it's too late for articles like this to help us?
Thoughts?
Legislation is blowing smoke - Bangor Daily News
The bill in question was crafted, in part, by the nations leading cigarette company, Philip Morris, as part of a deal worked out between the tobacco giant and an antismoking group the Campaign for tobacco-Free Kids. The health groups supporting the legislation have been seduced by the few concessions that Philip Morris dangled before them and have lost sight of the long-term damage that this bill will do to the publics health.
Perhaps most absurd is the bills treatment of new and potentially safer products, such as electronic cigarettes. The evidence is still out on whether electronic cigarettes, which deliver nicotine with water vapor rather than smoke, would actually help wean people from tobacco cigarettes. But why would Congress want to ban po-tentially safer products and continue to allow the deadliest nicotine product conventional cigarettes to remain on the market?
During the previous administration, the FDA was accused of making decisions based on politics, not health. If the Senate passes the FDA tobacco legislation, it will be institutionalizing, rather than ending, the triumph of politics over science in federal policymaking. This is not the way to restore science to its rightful place.
I bolded the biggest question I have on this whole issue? I also wonder if it's too late for articles like this to help us?
Thoughts?
