FDA warns Web companies not to sell flavored cigs
Posted: 6:10 pm Fri, November 6, 2009
By Associated Press
The Food and Drug Administration said Friday that it has warned several companies to stop selling banned flavored cigarettes to U.S. consumers online.
The agency sent letters this week to more than a dozen Web-based companies saying they are violating a new ban and asking the companies to describe in writing what action they have taken to comply.
The FDA banned candy-, fruit- and clove-flavored cigarettes in September. Federal health authorities and regulators say those products appeal especially to young people and are thought to attract new smokers.
“FDA takes the enforcement of this flavored cigarette ban seriously,” Dr. Lawrence R. Deyton, director of FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products, said in a statement. “These actions should send a clear message to those who continue to break the law that FDA will take necessary actions to protect our children from initiating tobacco use.”
Citing research, the FDA has said that 17-year-old smokers are three times as likely to use flavored cigarettes as smokers over the age of 25.
Almost 90 percent of adult smokers picked up the habit as teenagers, the agency has said, and the ban will help prevent an average of more than 3,600 young people each day from starting smoking.
The ban on manufacturing, importing, marketing and distributing flavored cigarettes does not include menthol cigarettes or some flavored tobacco products like cigars. The FDA is studying those products.
The FDA won the authority in June to regulate tobacco including banning certain products, limiting allowable nicotine and blocking labels such “low tar” and “light” meant to convey certain products are less harmful.
Tobacco companies also will be required to cover cigarette cartons with large, graphic warnings.
The law doesn’t let the FDA ban nicotine or tobacco, just to regulate what goes into tobacco products, require the ingredients be publicized and limit how tobacco is marketed, especially products geared toward children.
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Unflippingbelievable! The last time a cure was found for a disease was 1959. Jonas Salk developed the vaccine for polio. Since that time, hundreds of millions of dollars has been thrown around by the ACS and the other tax exempt cartels not to fight disease, but to demonize smokers by blaming our youth, because cures would put big pharma out of business. It’s time to shut these anything but non-profits down and get back to finding cures!
Big Pharma runs the FDA now days, NOT the other way around! Tobacco Control organizations like the American Cancer Society, ASH, Tobacco Free Kids, etc., have become nothing but Perception Management firms. They are paid to CREATE “truth”. Created truth is controllable. PM uses select information involving falsehood and deception. Really smoke and mirrors to get people to believe what they want the “truth” to be. Perception Management as a rule uses deception to influence emotions to an end. The difference between real and perception is like a stick of dynamite and the A-bomb. Wars can be created using Perception Management! Everyone, really, has seen PM in practice, and small business owners are experiencing this with legislation against their Constitutional rights. It requires absolutely no courage to support a popular position, even if completely wrong or illegal.
With all of the negativity regarding smoking brought about by the pharmaceutical companies, and the war against the tobacco companies that directly benefit the big pharmas who market their own brand of nicotine, and the knowledge about the benefits of nicotine, why would the big pharmas want control of this? MONEY! The variety of conditions being studied reflects the excitement felt in the scientific community for the potential of nicotine: anxiety, depression, Alzheimer’s, Tourette Syndrome, ADHD, Parkinson’s disease, diabetes and schizophrenia. Big pharma wants to own the market on this!
imagine my surprise… by the way… did you get your flu shot?
Re: FDA warns Web companies not to sell flavored cigs
Perhaps politicians, especially politicians geared to destroy the confidence building and minds of children, should be dressed with large graphic warnings. I am not trying to ban politicians, just to publicize and limit which politicians enter government buildings.
Government Will Make Smokers, Children, Families, Sick
Government’s that foster anti-smoking policies lead the real health epidemic, government interference. They are not using science as their competent guide into the future. Instead they use the deep festering envy of politicized environmentalists (those unable to compete on a level playing field) to revisit remnants of the dark ages. The profound statement of philosopher/novelist Ayn Rand echoes the truth that smothers us, “Today, we live in the age of envy.”
I am a life-long non-smoker, who has lost the four most precious people in my life. Cancer was the effect, a consequence, but not the cause. Yet, I will not help to propagandize health into dictatorial policy through anti-smoking. I do not wish to repeat the 1930’s, 1940’s. Do you?
Exactly how can our government “create a healthier society for all” when they betray the smoker’s sense of trust, demoralize their self-confidence, disrupt their employer-employee relationships, upheave their family life, and undermind their efficacy by alienating them from their own human nature?
This destructive mind/body dichotomy will subject smoker’s to long-term emotional and mental disorders, thus leading to serious physical ailments. In reality, our government is making them sick.
A particularily foreboding feature of the mind/body dichotomy is the government’s suffocating negative influence while aggressively restricting young people from making their own decisions. Government aggression will severely jeopardize each young person’s struggle to form a necessary sense of self-confidence. This fragile process is usually a traumatic experience, especially when that negative influence is hidden under the misconception of government benevolence.
In reality, our government lacks the knowledge of the trigger mechanism that sets off most cancers or most other major diseases to then become a critical danger for human beings. It is not smoking, nor second-hand smoke. Then why does government pathetically use smoker’s as their scapegoat, perhaps they require an example in order to intimidate other industries?
Chicken Littleism is no longer a silly joke. It is now a snarling threat. Stamp out politicized environmentalism, not smokers.
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