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acroyearFlavored Cigarettes Banned | The Onion - America's Finest News Source:
I bet you everything I have that there won't be a single noticeable drop in teenager addition rates in the next 5 years.
Prohibition doesn't work.
Still.
The FDA ban on cigarettes flavored with cloves or fruit—but not menthol—took effect this week. What do you think?Needlesstosay, the libertarian in me is thinking "big time abuse of the commerce clause here...". Once again, just like censorship, the government oversteps itself on the freedoms of adults in the so-called "interest of protecting children."
Peter Tudyk,
Optical Manager
"It's really disappointing that we need the government to tell people they shouldn't be smoking clove-flavored cigarettes."
Jake Karuschkat,
Unemployed
"I think that, in the interest of fairness, Bud Light Lime should have to go as well."
Darla McCann,
Help Desk Technician
"Bummer. With clove cigarettes a thing of the past, it won't be long before the Cure breaks up."
I bet you everything I have that there won't be a single noticeable drop in teenager addition rates in the next 5 years.
Prohibition doesn't work.
Still.
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Date: 2009-09-24 11:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-24 11:44 pm (UTC)It tends to quite often be a political failure (at least, with alcohol as an example), but public health-wise, prohibition actually works pretty well.
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Date: 2009-09-25 02:35 pm (UTC)That is unless it can be shown that clove or fruit are riskier for the smoker (or more importantly for the people around the smoker)
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Date: 2009-09-25 02:51 pm (UTC)So just like the MD law that eliminated direct distribution (effectively a giveaway to the big beer companies that own the distribution channels), this started as a "public health" thing that quickly turned into a big giveaway to Phillip Morris and friends, whose products are untouched by the ban.
public health in the end had nothing to do with it - the company with the biggest amount of money got to keep their products on the shelves, while the companies without the big lobbying dollars lose the right to even exist.
just like with the MD small wineries, or the hand-crafted children's toy-makers.
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Date: 2009-09-25 02:52 pm (UTC)