FDA Chief: Don't Regulate Tobacco »
Posted by: STONERS 1 year, 5 months agoGovernment regulation of tobacco could backfire by inadvertently forcing smokers to light up more and inhale more deeply, the head of the Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday.
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STONERS1 year, 5 months ago
"We could find ourselves in the conundrum of having made a decision about nicotine only to have made the public health radically worse. And that is not the position FDA is in; we approve products that enhance health, not destroy it," said von Eschenbach, a cancer surgeon.
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topperjax1 year, 5 months ago
I know, I know, I'm being a smart a$$
However, I do smoke, and I know that when I have tried "light" cigarettes in the past, I have smoked two, three times as much than when I was smoking the full-flavored cigarettes.
If the patch were made available at a lower price, then more people could use these products, and smoke even less, for the nicotine levels in their body would be more than enough to kill the craving.
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COMNCNTS1 year, 5 months ago
I am a smoker.
Smoking is bad really baaaaaaaaaaaaad. Everyone knows it but it stays legal because of Big Money lobbying. Its a shame the government cares about us so much to leave tobacco legal while naming other drugs illegal.
As for patches being too expensive. I find they are about the same or cheaper. If you smoke a pack a day at 4 dollars you will spend 28 per week. Two weeks worth of patches are around 45 dollars.
I have swithed from regulars to lights myself and found at first I was smoking a bit more but have went back to my pack a day bad habit.
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NelsonR1 year, 5 months ago
COMNCNTS - with your attitude I could quit. Personally I enjoy it. I can run, climb, bike etc. and keep up with my kids yet I'm over 60, go figure? I'm not trying to encourage smoking, but gosh, doesn't most people have some vice, drinking, cheating, driving to fast, eating.
If no vices johnny is a dull boy.
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RASSRASS1 year, 5 months ago
I guess this is the FDA's way of saying that they are even more afraid of big tobacco than before. Tobacco is an addictive drug, and it should be regulated as such. Matter of fact, given that smoking is responsible for several times more mortality and morbidity than all the other addictive drugs combined, tobacco should have even be regulated even more stringently. Oh, here's an idea that has come of age - make tobacco use illegal. OOps, than where would the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms get a huge chunk of its revenue - my bad! I guess people will just have to keep on dying.
TALK LESS, THINK MORE, DO MORE TO STOP THE INSANITY!
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Taganan1 year, 5 months ago
They could try Prohibition of tobacco. It worked so well with booze. I know someone who is addicted to Nicorette gum.
They won't make it illegal, but they will restrict its use beyond Constitutional bounds, because they know what's good for us. If your neighbor can smell it, you may be evicted. If you have children, they may be taken from you. If you run a business and want to allow smoking and post a sign to that effect, the nanny-state will tell you you don't know how to run your own business and force you by law to be non-smoking, even when your smoking customers disappear and you go bankrupt.
I don't smoke, other than the VERY occasional cigar and probably would not go to smoking establishments, but the owners have a right to run their own business. It is a matter of principle.
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COMNCNTS1 year, 5 months ago
I understand people enjoy it Nelson I do too LOL.
But its plain and simple that its real bad for people. Atleast with alcohol you can get wasted right next to someone and if you do not hit or stab that person with a beer bottle or something, that person should be fine. But smoking next to someone can affect them badly.
You can drink in front of your kids without any ill effects. But smoking in the same house can cause major problems with their developement and health.
Health care prices continue to rise out of control and there are several factor (malpratice insurance, immagrants and others) but smoking also effects this too.
I just think its obvious that if it were not for lobbying and the government looked at the facts on paper there would be no doubt that it would be illegal.
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youpeopledrivemenuts1 year, 5 months ago
Thats what I've been saying about myself all a long but I am an american first and do not like the constant bashing of america and the self loathing exibited by most here.
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wtagg1 year, 5 months ago
So using the same logic as the FDA Chief, if we deregulate things (like drugs and achohol) would people use them less?
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LABELDUDE1 year, 5 months ago
I think there's more to smoking than meets the eye. Cigars particularly have always been an excellent way of intruding into anothers space (and I don't mean that silly Bill Clinton.) If the power to take over a situation by firing up a stogie were removed, if people smoked only all alone and on Mountain tops I think tobacco sales would plummet.
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faneo1 year, 5 months ago
Well, my parents smoked around me and my siblings. My Grandparents smoked around us. In the car, inside, anywhere. So obviously I started to smoke at the ripe age of 16. I was hooked after my second pack and was a heavy smoker for 16 years. Didnt really think much of it since I was fully addicted and screw everyone else who wanted to interfer. About four years ago I gave up cold turkey. It killed me for about two months but then the cravings went away and I slowly forgot that rush...when I would lite one up. Now I think I was a total loser for smoking and I often wonder how I could have done that to myself.
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faneo1 year, 5 months ago
My problem isnt with smokers at all. They have a choice to overcome their habit, whether or not they choose to. My problem is with the next generation of childeren that are going to be hooked by parents who smoke and/or peer pressure etc. They should not have to be subjected to smoking. My problem is that these Tobacco companies actually target this upcomming generation (as they have done for years) innocent kids. You smokers out there have another ciggerette! I could care less But dont bring the up comming generation into it. They dont need to smoke.
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lvrofwolves1 year, 5 months ago
I'm a smoker, not too long ago they stopped smoking in all public buildings,in Ohio... ok,except I totally disagree that bars/night clubs and such should have a smoking ban. I try to be as considerate as possible with my habit. But now, now all I see before walking into restaurants, are cig butts laying EVERYWHERE, not only from customers, but from people who work there. What is wrong with having real smoking areas? another funny thing was last summer when I went to Switzerland/Germany/austria, you could smoke virtually everywhere, and there are more smokers there, I can't remember seeing 1 butt laying on the ground anywhere.
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wtagg1 year, 5 months ago
You have pointed out something that I think bothers most non-smokers. The disregard of where to dispose of litter/waste/trash. Go to a large parking lot and you are sure to find at least one example of someone emptying their entire ashtray direct onto the ground.
As a fellow Ohioan, I am thankful for the passage of the law, though there is presently no enforcement of it legally. I think an alternative to the law would be that restaurants/bars/night clubs should have had the option to be smoking or non-smoking exclusively with a disclaimer publicly notifying the public of their status. Personally, as a business owner, I would be inclined to market to the largest potential customer base, which would be non-smokers. It would give a choice to people of where they could go to enjoy themselves in the manner they see fit.
There is something that smokers don't understand. When a person walks by a smoker, the smoker cannot tell if that person is a smoker or not. A non-smoker can.
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lvrofwolves1 year, 5 months ago
And faneo, there are less smokers today then 30-40 years ago, OMG I remember doctors smoking in their offices, teachers lounges smoke came rolling out whenever they opened the door, you could smoke in hospitals etc...I think even in court rooms. the coomercials on TV all over the place for different brands....my son 24 does not smoke at all, so I think some parents by smoking actually create an adversion to it. children today are taught much better about it.
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faneo1 year, 5 months ago
Good point Ivrofwolves : )
I remember smoking in airoplanes !! Fly from Christchurch to Auckland (In New Zealand) and light up on the way ?! We have definitely come a long way since then.
Im still against smoking, I have seen two family members die horrific deaths from sparking up, so im pretty biased. I just hope they tighten the tobacco leash and eventually kill the monster. Only over time can this happen - again I have nothing against smokers just fully against smok-ING and the tactics these Tobacco companies use to manipulate its consumer base.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1875025.stm
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COMNCNTS1 year, 5 months ago
I feel that if tobacco was to remain legal the government should simply put a tax 2 dollars or so per pack. Then the hard part would be spending the money raised from those taxes on healthcare instead of wars.
Also since its considered legal, then you should not be able to deem it illegal to light up whereever. Unless of course there is an explosive hazzard near by.
Either its very bad for people and should be controlled or its not and shouldnt be punished. Just sick of the hyprocrisy thats all.
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LABELDUDE1 year, 5 months ago
I think you're forgetting one thing. Let's say I'm all for legal smoking. That doesn't mean I should have to put up with the pig like behavior of smokers filling rooms with smoke etc. See, smoking is one thing. Subjecting others to a lifetime of smokefilled rooms is another.
Have you ever tried to take a Dump in the middle of a fine eating establishment? Of course not. So, likewise, why should people be allowed to p1ss or smoke all over any damn place they like?
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