Obama Continues His Policy of “Change”
June 24th, 2009 by RickOn Monday, President Obama, signed the country’s toughest anti-smoking law, in another attempt to keep the children “safe” from a designated adult product and habit.
The bill would give free reign for the Food and Drug Administration to:
- Regulate what goes into tobacco products (candy and fruit flavored blunt wraps?)
- Publicize the ingredients (all 3000+ of them)
- Prohibit marketing campaigns receptive toward children
Obama spoke from experience about the risk of teens smoking:
I know. I was one of these teenagers. [...] And so I know how difficult it can be to break this habit when it’s been with you for a long time.
So many studies have come out that should have caused this drug to be banned a long time ago. The tobacco industry however has become such a big business that the federal government seemed to ignore as it danced to it’s corporate fiddle.
Tobacco Company Spins Wheels with New Prototypes
June 16th, 2009 by Rick
According to Join Together, British American Tobacco (BAT) has developed prototypes of cigarettes with different filters and tobacco that burns less toxic smoke, by treating it with special enzymes.
That’s actually scary that they could place enzymes into a cigarette that changes it’s properties… makes you wonder what else they could add. Apparently a shitload of ingredients because it’s already been done.
200 very lucky people in Hamburg, Germany will get the chance to try these bad boys while they are exposed to various scientific tests measure their biological reactions as well as to ascertain if they will consume less toxins with these prototypes.
Editor’s note: I doubt reinventing the way a cigarette burns and changing a filter will reduce the toxins. The key to reducing the toxins is eliminating the sheer number of chemical additives that are in a cigarettes that become toxic when they burn And why is it that cigarettes are the only product that exists that doesn’t list ingredients? Perhaps it’s just the reality of Big Tobacco.
Man Arrested for Breaking into Prison
June 3rd, 2009 by Russ
In the ‘watch out what you wish for’ category, an Arkansas man was arrested this week for attempting to sneak into a local state prison and join in the thriving contraband trade market. 20-year old Bobby Finley was carrying pocketfuls of coke and cigarettes when police caught him cutting down a chain link fence surrounding the Miller County Jail.
The 20-year old entrepreneur will undoubtedly serve the 19 years of his sentence trying to figure out the ins and outs of the Arkansas Prison Drug Dealing Network. Finley was sentenced to two separate three-year possession charges as well as a little known ‘furnishing prohibited substances’ charge. Apparently, this is something that you can only be charged with while operating in a prison environment.
So, not only did Mr. Finley attempt to illegally infiltrate a building full of law enforcement officials, he managed to break laws that few of us even knew existed. If he keeps this up, he may be in the running for a Darwin Award some day.
R.J. Reynolds Develops Orbs, Tobacco Candy
May 26th, 2009 by RickA smokeless tobacco product, that dissolves from a tablet, called Orbs, is being test-marketed in Central Indiana by the makers R.J. Reynolds.
The new product’s tag line is:
the best tobacco you never smoked.
Some opponents of Orbs are against it saying that it has too much of an appearance of candy. Others worry that the cellphone sized box would attract more children to the product and multiple tablets would be taken at a time.
David Howard, a R.J. Reynolds spokesman said:
These products meets society’s expectations. There’s no second-hand smoke. There’s no spitting and there’s no litter. They are marketed specifically to adult consumers who make informed decisions about tobacco.
Ironically enough, R.J. Reynolds didn’t create this product to have people reduce their smoking habit, but to instead be able to use this product and garner the nicotine intake where smoking is prohibited.
