Has everyone heard about this new bill that passed the House of Reps?
Supposedly it pass about 60 - 30 % in the house.
The FDA is making a new branch that will regulate tobacco.
They will lower nicotine levels in cigarettes so that they will not be addiciting, put more warnings such as images on the cigarette packages, disallow colorful advertisements, disallow flavors, etc...
About limiting nicotine levels, i personally think that lowering nicotine levels in the cigarettes will be worse, because then people will smoke more cigarettes to get the same high. If people smoke more, wouldn't that be worse? What's worse is that our economy is already doing horrible and limiting cigarette sales will be a big loss for the American economy. More job losses and etc... I mean, if it wasn't for tobacco, the US wouldn't have existed (going back in history).
I'm not a fan of tobacco, my great uncle is currently in the ICU with lung cancer. But still, believe that Congress has not considered enough or prepared enough for this shift. There should be a gradual change. I just think that Congress should revise the bill. Make it more practical and a gradual.
Anyone else, input?
Read more about the FDA tobacco at:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1217293633
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http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&tab=wn&n
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