Flavored Tobacco Law a New Escape
Many and new ideas about how to decrease smoking among American inhabitants appears since the Food and Drug Administration has taken over the regulation of tobacco use. One of the many other ideas is to ban flavored cigarettes and cigars.
Margaret Hamburg, commissioner of the FDA, explained: “Flavored cigarettes are a new gateway for many children and young adults to become real smokers.”
This is the main cause why they decided to prohibit these kinds of cigarettes. However there was approved before a legislation which bans minors from smoking.
Anti-tobacco researchers declared that they recently found that 11 businesses were failed in Charleston alone for selling cigarettes to minors. Such cases are met every day in many cities across the country.
Researchers explained that with the last anti-smoking legislation gets the job done, instead of creating severe penalties for those who sell to children. That’s why FDA decided to put into place a new law that bans flavored tobacco because, somehow, that is the cause for teens smoking.
In general, kids start smoking because bad parenting and a poor work ethic. That’s mean that only adults are guilty of increasing number of smokers among children.
Researchers can’t understand why the FDA thinks that putting a ban on flavored cigarettes will modify anything when businesses are still selling tobacco products to minors, indifferent of flavor. This is like telling that since the law against murder isn’t working we are going to ban all knives. Still the FDA doesn’t stop there, it will acts against smoking till will have good results.
Almost all scientists consider that even cigarettes packs attract kids into smoking. That’s why they proposed to put the image of a diseased lung on cigarette packs.
What they haven’t accounted for is the loss in tax dollars that is set to follow this ban on flavored tobacco. Some states are foretold to lose up to $140 million in tax money from the banning of flavored smoking products.
As it is known, the tobacco center at the FDA has issued numerous fees on tobacco corporations that fund the center’s very existence.
According to the Congressional Budget Office, it is predicted that by 2013 these fees will bring in up to $500 million annually.
In general, tobacco companies are censured with sales taxes much higher than alcohol or any other products on the market. And almost all people think that this is fair because the rise in health care costs because of tobacco-related illnesses.
Unfortunately they don’t pay attention on alcohol and fast food effects which lead to many health problems such as liver disease and heart disease.
