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Just Say No to Nicotine

Posted May 28, 2009 7:24 AM

The U.S. Congress is close to reaching consensus on whether the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) should regulate tobacco and cigarette products. The legislation would authorize FDA to regulate nicotine and other ingredient levels, as well as force greater disclosure of the contents of tobacco products. The bills do not mandate a total ban on nicotine but proponents see this as a move toward making cigarettes safer. Some say making cigarettes safer would remove the incentive for many to quit the habit. Is federal regulation warranted here? Should the U.S. government exert greater control over tobacco and cigarette products?

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05/28/2009 4:47 PM

yes op it out make it so people cant get cigarette they do not do anything but kill no point in it none at all

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05/29/2009 12:31 AM

we don't need more government control of anything!

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05/29/2009 3:59 PM

Amen!

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05/29/2009 12:43 PM

You are not old enough to remember prohibition of the 20's.

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05/29/2009 1:42 PM

I have been smoking for way too long but I have mixed feelings about this one.

On the one hand the government seems to screw up everything they regulate.

On the other hand I think that it would be great to get all those chemicals out of the cigarettes and just leave the pure tobacco taste. I currently smoke tribal cigarettes which are specifically listed as being additive free.

Who knows, if you eliminate all those chemicals you might just cut down on the manufacturing cost and get them back to a reasonable price. As long as they are not forcing me to quit and they don't make them cost more it really doesn't bother me which way it goes.

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05/29/2009 2:07 PM

If my cigs had less nicotine I would smoke more! I would prefer a cig with alot MORE nicotine so I would need to smoke less to get my fix.

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05/29/2009 5:57 PM

Prohibition goes against human nature. All it does is create underground economies that end up being run by gang type individuals. You would never have had a john dillinger if we had not had alcohol prohibition in the USA. Right now we have drug prohibition and all it has done is create gangs that profit from trafficking and create havoc doing it. We have spend billions to try and stop the unstoppable. Because there is a market someone will try and fill the niche, no matter what the laws are. It is far better to accept human nature and use education rather than legislating the impossible. Keep it legal and use education to teach the problems with the substance. Tax it to pay for the education and make some profit instead of spending to stop what can not be stopped.

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06/15/2009 1:08 PM

nicotine is just a drug, there is no difference between it then coffee or weed or crack. they are all drugs but because the government can make money off it they are legal. nicotine kill so many people a year and it is sold in stores...why? because so people are addicted, so if a crack head is addicted to crack he so be able to get crack to support his addiction? i see it as the same thing just on different levels. company's want to put nicotine/caffeine in different product to make them addictive so people will buy them, and all these drinks with caffeine in them now. what are we as a humans doing. making our selfs addited to drugs to stay up. back to nicotine. it is so deadly it kill people who dont even smoke. and your saying you want to make them stronger. thats crazy.

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