The confusion surrounding the ban results in part from the tight timelines that Congress inserted into the tobacco legislation. Dr. Lawrence Deyton, director of the F.D.A. tobacco center, has been on the job only a week and has barely begun hiring staff members. But the ban on flavored cigarettes had to go into effect 90 days after the legislation was signed, and so it did.
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Dr. Deyton was asked several times on a conference call with reporters if the ban applied to any small cigars or cigarillos. “According to the law, if something is wrapped in a tobacco leaf, that would not be considered … ” he said and then stopped and added, “Hold on just a second.”
After a delay, Catherine Lorraine, a lawyer in the agency’s tobacco center, got on the call and said that if consumers believe a product is a cigarette, then the law defines it as one no matter how it is wrapped or labeled.
How they will gauge what the consumers (more than one) believe (as one) is another matter. But it’ll be a simple enough procedure, I suppose, now that we know the technique. It’s a kind of alchemy.
But I just love this idea of banning something before you’ve bothered to define what it is.
Didn’t you realize that every time you light up—7 Polar Bears melt….sarc/
The less people smoke, the better.
Specially my new neighbour, who smokes something, obviously made of rat excrements and nail clippings, on his porch, poisoning every venture outside of the house for my family.
But the law would not have applied to him, alas.
Unfortunately, killing those who puff stinky smokes into my face is illegal, so I would rather donate money to anyone, who would promise to rid world of tobacco.
Count me communist if you wish. I hate when people release expended tobacco smoke into the air I have to breath, as I have no choice. I’d rather let them inject whatever they want.
Even Silverdale banned smoking.
“The ban is intended to end the sale of tobacco products with chocolate, vanilla, clove and other flavorings…”
I’m thinking these people would have smoked anyway but chose these products as a “point of difference”. I’m pretty sure that if anybody had a sudden craving for chocolate they’d probably buy a chocolate bar not cigarettes.
They have flavoured condoms as well. I doubt that encourages more kids to have more sex.
sublime tobacco
from east to west
cheers the turkman’s labour
and the sailor’s rest
always remember our HBC voyageurs who stopped every hour from their paddling and portaging to smoke their pipes…
so….there wouldn’t have been the trade or the exploration and countless other contributing factors in the development of this place called Canada without confirmed smokers….
lets try to show a little respect rather than censure for smokers….we smoke to honour our founders…any one of those paddlers was worth a canoe full of progressives….
> stopped every hour from their paddling and portaging to smoke their pipes
What good did it do to them, except for calming the shaking hands? The rest of the world managed to do hard labour for millenia w/o tobacco. I either missed sarcasm in your post, or it’s a very lame excuse for smoking.
Aaron Stay off your neighbour’s porch.
yeah, it’s always my fault.
The debacle with Tobacco taxes is even funnier if you look at the bulk tobacco market. The government changed the taxes on bulk tobacco (i.e. the tobacco self-rollers use) so that the tax is incurred by the producer just after the tobacco has finished aging, which, predictably, put all the bulk tobacco manufacturers out of business, until one of their attorneys read further in the law to show that if they changed their marketing and packaging to call it “bulk pipe tobacco”, then the tax no longer applied to them, and all these companies came back into being as “So and So Bulk Pipe Tobacco.” Now the government has failed to collect the expected taxes that have “paygo’d” been spent.
Big Nanny is a ruthless disciplinarian who must be obeyed or she becomes a raging psychotic.
I also heard on the radio that by far the largest falouring used in cigarettes – menthol – is not covered in the ban. So this ban effects fractions of a percent of the market. Way to hit them where it hurts.
I also heard on the radio that by far the largest flavouring used in cigarettes – menthol – is not covered in the ban. So this ban effects fractions of a percent of the market. Way to hit them where it hurts.
Many friends of the new American President smoke Menthol flavored cigarettes.