US bans cigarettes flavored with candy, fruit, cloves

[TrustNoOne]

Not newswire worthy, still important:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.e124e7e453badadddd1ba78d5fcec84 c.221&show_article=1


Cigarettes flavored with fruit, candy or cloves became illegal in the United States (http://get.lingospot.com/link/?@li2=2640&is_lhid=1&key=SVKEJENJ&ps_id=30sU5ffshk&q=QQ:lqOTqjptCQ_P_:{@Z[[ORJJOASZOBHZVOqptJ:pnCAOqmj_J:pnCHO4aJm8CHIURA:GSS GKVV&site_id=breitbart.com&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftopics.breitbart.com%2FUnited%2BS tates%2F&url_key=_TaCUO0CGG@IZ{D[DK&v=1&~boot=1253824620589) on Tuesday under a new law aimed at cutting down on smoking, especially among children, officials said.


"These flavored cigarettes are a gateway for many children and young adults to become regular smokers," said the Food and Drug Administration (http://topics.breitbart.com/Food+and+Drug+Administration/) (FDA (http://topics.breitbart.com/fda/)) Commissioner Margaret Hamburg, (http://topics.breitbart.com/Commissioner+Margaret+Hamburg/) announcing the ban.

The vast majority of adult smokers (http://get.lingospot.com/link/?@li2=2640&is_lhid=1&key=SVKEJENJ&ps_id=30sU5ffshk&q=QQ:lqOTqjptCQZ[G@PPU_{ORJJOBBHODUGVOqptJ:pnCAOqmj_J:pnCHO4aJm8CHI URA:GSSGKVV&site_id=breitbart.com&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftopics.breitbart.com%2Fadult%2Bsm okers%2F&url_key=_TaCUO0CGG@IZ{D[DK&v=1&~boot=1253824620589) taking up the habit as teens, and are more attracted to flavored cigarettes and tobacco products (http://topics.breitbart.com/tobacco+products/) than to unflavored ones, according to the FDA, which is also mulling regulating menthol cigarettes and flavored tobacco products other than cigarettes, the agency said.

According to the federal food and drug watchdog, studies have shown that 17-year-old smokers are three times as likely to use flavored cigarettes as smokers over the age of 25.

"Flavored cigarettes attract and allure kids into lifetime addiction," said Assistant Secretary of Health Howard Koh (http://topics.breitbart.com/Health+Howard+Koh/) in a statement.

"FDA's ban on these cigarettes will break that cycle for the more than 3,600 young people who start smoking daily," Koh said.
Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States.

That's lovely. Let's take a successful product off the market, and when people get pissed that they can't have it anymore, let's blame it on the kids. No wonder people resent youth. Of course, anyone with a properly functioning brain knows that sort of "SAVE DA CHILLUNS!!!11!" nonsense is just another front for either religious nuts to impose their will upon the rest of us, or for fanatical statists to attack anyone who dares to make a profit.

[Newtown]

I believe this is a good thing, but not because it deters youth from the drug, but because it deters everyone. Saying "it's for the children" is a closeminded excuse.

[de82]

"FDA's ban on these cigarettes will break that cycle for the more than 3,600 young people who start smoking daily," Koh said.


How can anyone seriously believe that? Nearly all of my friends started smoking when they were 12 and not one of them ever smoked any of those fancy, scented varieties. And I can say the same for all the kids I know right now who smoke. This is just total nonesense and no one who actually knows underage smokers or who has smoked themselves could accept it for a minute.

It makes me wonder: what is the real motivation behind this ban? I for one do not believe ANYONE could be this out of touch with reality.

[JohnOSevens]

American Big Tobacco doesn't produce those things. What it does is cut down on the money being spent on fancy imported cigarettes like Djarum and so forth. People are still going to smoke, only now they're going to have to pay Philip Morris to do so.

[Got Liberty?]

And when they cut the nicotine allowed in each cig, that'll just give them more money.

I hadn't thought about it that way.