FDA begins its new line of anti-smoking ads; Companies forced to print on products

[rambone]

Smoking might not be the popular thing to do these days, but Government using Fascist methods of forcing companies to print stupid graphics on their products is not the answer either.

In 2009 the FDA gained the brand-new power of regulating tobacco products for the first time. One more industry put under the thumb of Big Government, one more milestone for statism.



http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/11/health/policy/11tobacco.html?_r=1

Proposed Cigarette Product Warning Labels

FDA proposes new line of cigarette warning graphics

 

[Prometheus]

Unreal. I think smoking modern cigarettes is one of the worst things you can do for your health. I say modern because of all the chemicals and additives they put in them here in the US and other large countries.

In any event, this is big brother to the extreme. It's unacceptable IMO.

I find smoking repulsive at this point but people have a right to buy them and companies have a right to sell their products.... well there should be some disclosure about the nasty crap they are adding to their tobacco, but this is insane!

Truth about what is in a product and let the consumer decide.

I am curious of how the government is going to recoup all the money they will lose in taxes as more and more people quit.

 

[MTC]

"We need to revolutionize the way we look at guns, like what we did with cigarettes. Now it [sic] is dirty, deadly, and banned."

Dated article, but the topic always reminds of that quote.

 

[kickbacked]

The government is trying to control everyone, first cigs, then fat people, now guns. its only a matter of time before they decide what we name our kids