Source: US Food & Drug Administration
The FDA has officially banned the sale of cigarettes containing fruit, candy or clove flavors. The ban is associated with a national effort to reduce smoking in America via the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act.
It is clear from both the ban and the message from the FDA that they are particularly concerned with Tweens and Teens smoking. The FDA has made the not so far leap in logic that these are the likely audience for flavored cigarettes. According to FDA commissioner Dr. Margaret Hamburg, “Almost 90% of adult smokers start smoking as teenagers.”
Yes Europeans, laugh at the country ostensibly founded upon the principles of religious and personal freedom. At least we won’t be coughing when we have the last laugh. Granted we will probably be dead from diseases related to obesity and over-consumption but then the latest statistics seem to suggest that you are catching up to us there too. So smoke ‘em while you’ve got ‘em.
Posted by David Marc Schwadron, Esq.
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