More Florida fearmongering about "candy-flavored" tobacco

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Candy flavored tobacco: Halloween's haunting surprise of the year - beware! - Jacksonville Parenting Teens | Examiner.com

Complete with a statement that people should not be fooled into thinking that smokeless is less hazardous than cigarettes.

KEEP ON SMOKING!

 

[sqirl1]

I'm not even clicking that. the titles got me ...... enough already.... although I will say, snus has got to be pretty damn bad for your gums, better than smoking I'm sure, but every time I use it for more than three days in a row, my gums feel swollen and my gums get kind of torn up. it's fine the next day if I stop using it, but there's no way I do it every day! I NEVER, EVER have that problem with dissolvables though, dissolvables can't be any worse than those nicorette lozenges.

 

[Placebo Effect]

I'm not even clicking that. the titles got me ...... enough already.... although I will say, snus has got to be pretty damn bad for your gums, better than smoking I'm sure, but every time I use it for more than three days in a row, my gums feel swollen and my gums get kind of torn up. it's fine the next day if I stop using it, but there's no way I do it every day! I NEVER, EVER have that problem with dissolvables though, dissolvables can't be any worse than those nicorette lozenges.

Dr. Brad Rodu did an article about snus usage and gum disease -- Tobacco Truth: Snus Use and Gum Disease: No Association

 

[sqirl1]

Dr. Brad Rodu did an article about snus usage and gum disease -- Tobacco Truth: Snus Use and Gum Disease: No Association

hmmmmmm.... do my gums just need to get used to it then? because like I said, I never get ANYTHING bad out of using dissolvables, maybe it's just all the salt? I mean I just use General's dry mini mint, but still, all snus has a lot of salt, so maybe my gums just don't like that. but yeah this "tobacco candy" bullishh has gotta stop, I'll bet you money if a kid put a stone wall in their mouth, they'd spit it out right away, the only thing I can think of that tastes sweet without you acquiring a taste for it is cinnamon ariva......... and nobody sells that. as for camel's stuff, I've never tried it myself, but knowing RJR, I bet it tastes just like somebody took a batch of natural flavored stonewall and dumped a truckload of sugar and a little sprinkle of coffee in it..... in other words pretty overpowering and gross and not something a kid would want, right?

 

[Nicko]

Why do they think anyone would give tobacco to children for Halloween?
Candy is kind of more .... traditional, I should think.

 

[hairball]

Boy I just hate articles like this. Here we go with the kiddies again. Most youngsters that I know don't smoke and wouldn't even consider it. They all were happy that I finally stopped. As for cigars, cigarillos, and the likes...most kids don't want these anyway and it's illegal to sell to them. What birdbrain came up with this story?

 

[AutumnWolf]

I especially think its a cheap shot to use kids and halloween to get their erroneous message across...

 

[rothenbj]

I'm not even clicking that. the titles got me ...... enough already.... although I will say, snus has got to be pretty damn bad for your gums, better than smoking I'm sure, but every time I use it for more than three days in a row, my gums feel swollen and my gums get kind of torn up. it's fine the next day if I stop using it, but there's no way I do it every day! I NEVER, EVER have that problem with dissolvables though, dissolvables can't be any worse than those nicorette lozenges.

As a constant, daily, continuous (how else can I put it other than I sleep with a portion in) user for a year and 8 months, I can tell you that the dentist has had nothing but praise for how my gums are doing since I quit smoking. I had developed a perio issue from 43 years of smoking so they see me every three months. They've been amazed at the improvement.

Oh, before you get the wrong idea, I only use 4-5 portions a day. I'm just used to the feel of a portion under my lip at this point so I just leave the portion in until I want a new one.

 

[Vocalek]

There was a link from the story to a Facebook page, where I am having a very civil dialog with them.

Parents' Universal Resource Experts, Inc (P.U.R.E.) | Facebook

 

[Vap0rJay]

Lets see, I can get a bag of 500 tootsie rolls at Wallmart for $2.99 that will take care of every brat that knocks...

I can spend that $2.99 for 15 snus... that *I* want to use - I don't want to give them to my friends let alone your brat... That would only take care of 15 brats anyway even if someone were that stupid. 20 smokes in a pck @ $12 a pack that would take care of 20 brats... yeah it makes perfect sense that is, if you were dropped on the head repeaidly as a child.

Sugar is cheap, tobacco is not... I mean honestly now... *shakes his head*

When I smoked I hated even giving *A* cig to someone who asked for one, let alone giving away multiples
This has to be the most ......ed story I think I've read in quite awhile.

 

[BCB]

I thought we were supposed to put razor blades in their apples. I guess I'm out of the loop--haven't had a trick-or-treater since I moved to the middle of nowhere. Have to agree with VapOrJay--I'm too cheap to kill them with my snus.

 

[Papa Lazarou]

It reminds me of "moral panic" stories of the past, most of which had little if any basis in reality. Like stories of adults giving doses of acid to unsuspecting kids outside schools through fake 'tattoos'. It didn't really happen, although at one time it was widely believed it did..

 

[Vocalek]

It reminds me of "moral panic" stories of the past, most of which had little if any basis in reality. Like stories of adults giving doses of acid to unsuspecting kids outside schools through fake 'tattoos'. It didn't really happen, although at one time it was widely believed it did..

And then there was the 1936 "...... Madness" movie. ...... Madness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Vap0rJay]

It reminds me of "moral panic" stories of the past, most of which had little if any basis in reality. Like stories of adults giving doses of acid to unsuspecting kids outside schools through fake 'tattoos'. It didn't really happen, although at one time it was widely believed it did..

I know, when I heard that I hunted down and licked every fake tattoo I could find and never once saw any purple elephants

 

[chaos-7]

I know, when I heard that I hunted down and licked every fake tattoo I could find and never once saw any purple elephants

L.O.L !!!

 

[Stubby]

hmmmmmm.... do my gums just need to get used to it then? because like I said, I never get ANYTHING bad out of using dissolvables, maybe it's just all the salt? I mean I just use General's dry mini mint, but still, all snus has a lot of salt, so maybe my gums just don't like that.

It's far more likely you are having gum problems because of the mint flavor and not the snus. I have problems with the mint and even the wintergreen if I use to much. Try some of the more straight unflavored snus and see if that helps.

As for the subject at hand this part is of interest

Tobacco Free Florida (TFF) is a statewide cessation and prevention campaign funded by Florida’s tobacco settlement fund. The program is managed by the Florida Department of Health, specifically the Bureau of Tobacco Prevention Program. TFF’s mission is to combat the pervasive problem of tobacco use in the Sunshine State, where each year, more than 28,000 Floridians die from smoking and tobacco-related diseases cost the state an estimated $19.6 billion in healthcare costs and lost productivity.

So we get another government funded program (actually funded by smokers via settlement money) working against the public health and smokers. It's amazing how much bad information and propaganda they managed to print in one article.

 

[rothenbj]

BCB, are you in my neighborhood?

Stubby, that was exactly my thought after reading the article. The only comment I could have made would have started out a Saturdauy Night Live line from many years ago, "Jane, you ignorant s.........."

 

[Papa Lazarou]

I know, when I heard that I hunted down and licked every fake tattoo I could find and never once saw any purple elephants

You as well huh?

 

[rolygate]

Makes me wonder what they will come up with for Christmas. That should be really something

 

[Stubby]

Makes me wonder what they will come up with for Christmas. That should be really something

In my youth I used to see pictures of Santa relaxing with a pipe after his long night. No doubt that was a plot by tobacco companies to pervert the youth.