Barack Obama signed a new law which tries to limit the reach tobacco companies have when advertising to children.
(How awesome was Joe Biden’s hot pink tie? Love it.)
The law bans tobacco companies from advertising within 1000 from schools and playground and curves their power to tempt children with “appealing flavors.”
Obama said he hopes the bipartisan bill will help save billions of dollars in healthcare and will reduce the number of children that get hooked on tobacco products.
I’m not quite sure if you’re for or against this bill…but at least you’re acknowledging it. It has been kept kind of hush hush considering the injustices involved.
Bottom line is, this bill is not in the slightest about smoking.
If we wanted to keep our kids from smoking in America, parents would have to stop. Where do you think kids get their cigarettes? Do you think they even have the option most of the time to smoke a cappucino flavored cigarette? Unlikely.
In no way do I believe tobacco companies should gear products or advertising to children but facts are still facts. Never will this world be without teenagers lighting up. Never will this world be without teenagers throwing keggers either. Tell me, if I went out tonight and bought a bottle of that Smirnoff Twist…let’s say raspberry flavor, would I be purchasing an item geared towards children?
I mean, most alcoholic drinks are in some way flavored…No more mixed drinks now? Straight shots of hard alcohol if adults wish to drink?
Well, luckily our “free” country’s constitution includes an amendment which states we can’t ban alcohol..so that’s safe.
I’m failing to see the difference.
Why is it that he didn’t pass a piece of legislation that gives the FDA the right to regulate tobacco and it could include somehting in it like the original text about only selling tobacco products at smoke shops or liquor stores, that way no children are subject to the advertising.
The hypocrisy is so overwhelming. A bill like this passed from someone who is supposed to bring us hope and is a smoker himself? Funny, my level of hope has dwindled now that we can kill babies at 7 months, my great-great grandchildren will be paying off a stimulus package that was completely useless. (Our country is just now leveling out and we should be out of th erecession before December 2010…and the stimulus hasn’t been spent…so what did it stimulate? Congress? Ha!)
I don’t smoke, I don’t drink. This is unbiased unlike most of the opposition. There are just less dictator-like ways to solve simple problems like this.
June 26, 2009 at 11:53 am
I’m not quite sure if you’re for or against this bill…but at least you’re acknowledging it. It has been kept kind of hush hush considering the injustices involved.
Bottom line is, this bill is not in the slightest about smoking.
If we wanted to keep our kids from smoking in America, parents would have to stop. Where do you think kids get their cigarettes? Do you think they even have the option most of the time to smoke a cappucino flavored cigarette? Unlikely.
In no way do I believe tobacco companies should gear products or advertising to children but facts are still facts. Never will this world be without teenagers lighting up. Never will this world be without teenagers throwing keggers either. Tell me, if I went out tonight and bought a bottle of that Smirnoff Twist…let’s say raspberry flavor, would I be purchasing an item geared towards children?
I mean, most alcoholic drinks are in some way flavored…No more mixed drinks now? Straight shots of hard alcohol if adults wish to drink?
Well, luckily our “free” country’s constitution includes an amendment which states we can’t ban alcohol..so that’s safe.
I’m failing to see the difference.
Why is it that he didn’t pass a piece of legislation that gives the FDA the right to regulate tobacco and it could include somehting in it like the original text about only selling tobacco products at smoke shops or liquor stores, that way no children are subject to the advertising.
The hypocrisy is so overwhelming. A bill like this passed from someone who is supposed to bring us hope and is a smoker himself? Funny, my level of hope has dwindled now that we can kill babies at 7 months, my great-great grandchildren will be paying off a stimulus package that was completely useless. (Our country is just now leveling out and we should be out of th erecession before December 2010…and the stimulus hasn’t been spent…so what did it stimulate? Congress? Ha!)
I don’t smoke, I don’t drink. This is unbiased unlike most of the opposition. There are just less dictator-like ways to solve simple problems like this.