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What's Good For The Goose...

What's Good For The Goose...
2 hrs 17 mins ago
WASHINGTON � President Barack Obama is set to sign into law an anti-smoking bill that will give the Food and Drug Administration unprecedented authority to regulate tobacco.

Obama is scheduled to sign the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act during an event Monday in the Rose Garden. The law allows the FDA to reduce nicotine in tobacco products, ban candy flavorings and block labels such "low tar" and "light." Tobacco companies also will be required to cover their cartons with large graphic warnings.

The law won't let the FDA ban nicotine or tobacco outright, but the agency will be able to regulate what goes into tobacco products, make public the ingredients and prohibit marketing campaigns, especially those geared toward children.

Anti-smoking advocates looked forward to the bill after years of attempts to control an industry so fundamental to the U.S. that carved tobacco leaves adorn some parts of the Capitol.

Opponents from tobacco-growing states like top-producing North Carolina argued that the FDA has proved through a series of food safety failures that it's not up to the job. They also said that instead of unrealistically trying to get smokers to quit or to prevent others from starting, lawmakers should ensure that people have other options, like smokeless tobacco.

As president, George W. Bush opposed the legislation and threatened a veto after it passed the House last year. The Obama administration, by contrast, issued a statement declaring strong support for the measure.

Obama has spoken publicly of his own struggles to quit cigarettes.

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It is nice to know that even though the cost of ciggy's is going up, the FDA is getting their grubby mits into the mix, and soon I may never be able to purchase a grape flavored Sweet N Mild again(gag!); that the man behind some of these changes isn't some sadistic non-smoker. He gets to suffer with the rest of us.

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6/22/2009 8:49:13 AM From: Hack lol, Canada has had this for years, my favorite graphic is the limp-dick cigarette that warns against impotence


6/22/2009 10:34:00 AM From: eddo This country makes a fortune on tobacco taxes. What are we gonna do when people quit smoking?


6/22/2009 11:02:22 AM From: Rani Realize what the Prohibition did for America and start singing the virtues of tobacco again. When the Government stops earning its money from tobacco, it will back down off this crazy stuff it has started.


6/22/2009 11:45:46 AM From: Chi "What are we gonna do when people quit smoking?" Save on healthcare.


6/22/2009 12:12:42 PM From: ImWithStupid But Obama is using cigarette tax money to pay for his SCHIPP expansion. Think of the children.


6/23/2009 5:21:00 AM From: BCAR As if Obama buys his own cigarettes.


6/23/2009 5:21:44 AM From: BCAR Probably bums them from the white janitors Michelle insisted on.


6/23/2009 5:34:21 AM From: MrsK So now they're racist? My God, will the tyranny never end?


6/23/2009 6:22:41 AM From: BCAR No not racist, she just wanted someone who would show up on time.


6/23/2009 8:42:52 AM From: eddo OH SNAP!


6/23/2009 7:20:23 PM From: MrsK I'm going to come up with something very witty and clever to respond to that... But in the mean time a very deflated *zing to you sir.


6/23/2009 7:43:30 PM From: Hack lmao