DISQUS

Don Quijote · 6 months ago

We have the best government money can buy.

Matt Splett · 6 months ago

This Newsy.com report offers a perspective from 24/7 Wall Street that these new FDA regulations may reduce the settlement money that big tobacco has been paying out for years. I just assumed this was another blow to the tobacco industry, but maybe not.

http://www.newsy.com/videos/new_sheriff_in_town

DLS · 6 months ago

Actually, we just have to wait and see what will be done now that the FDA has regulatory authority. Will there be renewed cheap attacks on the tobacco industry? Will regulation end the current shakedown of that industry? And note that there are some interests in Congress that may want to continue to support the industry in order to maintain it as a cash revenue source. (I'm wondering if Chris Dodd has interests in this industry, as he and his wife do in others of note such as the finance industry and the health care industry, for example.)

jchem · 6 months ago

I rather enjoy the picture you placed in this post. However, there should be a third pack showing another message:

Despite all this, your government will allow it so we can continually have a revenue stream. Please don't stop if you have already started. Your continuing addiction and eventual death is helping us pay for all of our public health programs. If you quit now, small children will surely die because they cannot get the care that they need. By the way, we're increasing the tax because too many of you are quitting and we need more money.

SteveK · 6 months ago

DLS said: "Will there be renewed cheap attacks on the tobacco industry?"

DLS, Would you please site a few examples of "cheap attacks on the tobacco industry"... I've never heard the term before and it would be nice to know what you're talking about.

Improvisor · 5 months ago

Hah! Jchem got it right.... The tax revenue is the road to most and all goverment legilation. It is the fuel for their less than responsible spending habits. Being a former smoker; I consider myself as an informed consumer and trust me nothing the government did made me quit.... It is the sick and tired of being sick and tired of cigarettes that made me quit. Nothing else.... It is all about the revenue..... It is the one area the govenment can arise taxes and revenue that people do not bitch because they know it is bad for them. It is the field of gold, that the goverment keeps going back to again and again, becasue they can..... When I was a kid a pack of cigarretes cost .45 a pack.... Now it is taxed so heavily that the actual cost of a pack of cigarretes is still no more than it was back in the day, but for every pack you buy at minimum $4.00 of that purchase go to the taxing authority...... Think about it....

facebook-83303477 · 4 months ago

until there are enough non-industry funded research studies that demonstrate that flavorings really do increase the likelihood that a child will begin smoking, that law will always demonstrate nothing more than the power of money in our government. just because that connection, which is a generalization, really, seems logical, doesn't make it true.

cheap marlboro cigarettes · 4 months ago

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StevenTaylor · 3 months ago

The simple way to end the smoking problems is to get rid for good of cigarettes and tobacco products. a law should forbid all the selling of such products and penalty for breaking the law should be death by lethal injection This would surely decrease by at least 99% the smokers rate. I like to smoke cigars and as much as I would like to give up, I just can't. I even tried it with a therapist, but no results.