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Or not, if Biden has his way.<\/p>\n
The Biden administration’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) took a significant new step on Wednesday that would effectively ban cigarettes currently on the market in favor of those with lower levels of nicotine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Kiss those traditional\u00a0 Marlboros and Winstons good bye… the he-man’s cigarette of choice is gonna be a low nicotine, low-tar, probably low-taste smoke that identifies itself as real tobacco (but is as much real tobacco as a Elizabeth Warren is a real full-blooded Native American.)<\/p>\n
“Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a proposed rule that, if finalized, would make cigarettes and certain other combusted tobacco products minimally or nonaddictive by limiting the level of nicotine in those products. If finalized, the United States would be the first country globally to take such a bold, life-saving action to prevent and reduce smoking-related disease and death,” the FDA said in a statement on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The FDA’s press release states that “the proposed rule would not ban cigarettes or any other tobacco products,” and instead “cap the nicotine level at 0.7 milligrams per gram of tobacco in cigarettes and certain other combusted tobacco products, which is significantly lower than the average concentration in these products on the market today.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I gave up many decades ago, but in those days Carlton and Merit were the preferred cigarettes of people who didn’t like to share their smokes. NO BODY (other than a fella in my first German unit who would tear off their filters and therefore get some serious nicotine) wanted to smoke flavorless cardboard.<\/p>\n
Fox News Digital reported earlier this month, when the rule cleared an FDA regulatory review, that if nicotine levels in cigarettes are lowered under federal regulation, experts say cartels running black market sales of cigarettes will likely benefit.<\/p>\n
“Biden’s ban is a gift with a bow and balloons to\u00a0organized crime cartels with it, whether it’s cartels, Chinese organized crime, or Russian mafia. It’s going to keep America smoking, and it’s going to make the streets more violent,” Rich Marianos, former assistant director of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the current chair of the\u00a0Tobacco Law Enforcement Network<\/u>, told Fox News Digital earlier this month.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Just what we need – another drug passed into the control of the cartels. Face it, Americans are too damn stupid to look in a mirror and say “gee, if we didn’t quit TAKING drugs those evil cartels wouldn’t have a market to sell to, would they?” And how may hard-core smokers do you see fail to give up? There is a reason why Mr. Twain was right when he said “Giving up smoking is easy – I’ve done it hundreds of times.” And because of that, we can probably expect old time cigarette smuggling rising again.<\/p>\n
I can’t be the only one seeing the irony of them making traditional cigarettes illegal – and pot legal?<\/p>\n
Funny thing… they keep saying ‘it’s for your own good’ – tired of that phrase yet? Seems like any time the word “control” comes up, it’s never really about control of what they say it is – it’s control of YOU.<\/p>\n
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