House Votes to Let FDA Regulate Tobacco

[rrplasencia]

it won't affect cc's

[Snake Hips]

Originally Posted by rrplasencia

it won't affect cc's

Haha, a man of few words and great wisdom! That is indeed true, isn't it...

[Tenor CS]

I wouldn't mind if they banned ACID's.

Leave the rest of my cigars alone, though.

If I ever meet Jonathan Drew, I'm going to ask him to refund me the $50 I wasted on an ACID sampler.

[GWEEDO]

Phillip Morris is obviously ok with this turnover because they already figured out that the world is addicted to their product and they will get millions of dollars for "in house research" which will just let them put more money in their pockets because they already know the answers to the questions still being asked by the people who are setting out these new rules. DUH. we've known for how long that ciggarettes are addictive. so what. The only cigarette adds allowed on TV are the TRUTH.COM things talking about how "cigarettes are bad (M'KAY?!)". well, guess what, Phillip morris owns the rights to THETRUTH.COM, and that company is the one paying for those adds. but ciggarette advertisement is illegal on television, so they found a way around the rules. Everyone's upset about ciggarettes being bad, and costing so much because of the taxes, and everyone's super upset about gas prices, too, but we don't do anything about either one of them! Big buisness runs america, "land of the free". too bad there's nothing free about America.

DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS, TALK TO YOUR LEGISLATORS, AND LET PEOPLE KNOW. VOICE YOUR OPINIONS, THAT'S WHAT THIS COUNTRIES SUPPOSED TO BE ALL ABOUT!

[Snake Hips]

Phillip Morris is the smart one here. They realized that fighting it won't do them any good - if they back it then they have a certain degree of control over it and its provisions. Fighting it gets them the shaft if they lose and bad PR if they succeed.

[BagfullofPings]

Tobacco will never be banned by states and the feds. Why, MONEY!!! Do you think governments are going to give up that MONEY? Hell no!! TAX, TAX, TAX...there are thousands of bureaucrats that need an easy job.

[fsjonsey]

It's wonderful watching my nation creep ever closer to a european style socialist nanny state where the extent of your personal freedoms are what happens behind your bedroom door. Everything else, forget about it.
Cradle to the grave, people!


Aren't I an optimistic young man...

[goldenboy1939]

If Boehner is a voice of sanity I don't know what this world's come too. There are no voices of reason in our government leader's minds. Just the voices of special interest groups who buy their favors. There is always an agenda on both sides - the politician wants to appear plugged in and will always succeed by appealing to the basist, lowest common denominator and the special interest will continue to fund the politician's bravado so long as the political, economical and legal landscape favors their position and means of making money.

I had to get that off my chest...

[zmancbr]

Originally Posted by BagfullofPings

Tobacco will never be banned by states and the feds. Why, MONEY!!! Do you think governments are going to give up that MONEY? Hell no!! TAX, TAX, TAX...there are thousands of bureaucrats that need an easy job.

Right... they may not ban it, but they may send it to the point of being unfordable.... if they get that 10,000% increase in tax they want... Of course I will still be buying cigars but it won't be from within the states...

If I have to bring them back in my luggage I will lol...