I am so happy to hear that authorities are looking out for our wellbeing.
FDA Wants To Regulate Nicotine Levels
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FYI, today's WSJ editorial on the subject:
Fighting the Last Tobacco War - WSJ (archive.ph)
I like the line, "How can legalizing pot while banning nicotine be explained"
Fighting the Last Tobacco War - WSJ (archive.ph)
I like the line, "How can legalizing pot while banning nicotine be explained"
If this statement by the WSJ wasn't so laughably stupid, and were it not against Forum rules to go into the subject, I could quite easily rip it to shreds.
It's popular and pointless to bitch about this false equivalency here.
Frankly this seems like it would be targeted toward the e-cigarette and e-liquids market more than anything. Almost all of them have standardized nicotine levels that are clearly labeled and would be easy to police.
Trying to quantify the nicotine levels in the thousands upon thousands of actual tobacco products is a much harder task and one I doubt the FDA is actually interested in or even able to tackle.
Trying to quantify the nicotine levels in the thousands upon thousands of actual tobacco products is a much harder task and one I doubt the FDA is actually interested in or even able to tackle.
One creates less disagreeable masses and the other doesn't.
Then write them with your rebuttal. If it's good they'll publish it:
Letters to the Editor
wsj.ltrs@wsj.comEditor, The Wall Street Journal
1211 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10036
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That's why I'm just under 600 pounds in the cellar.
What makes you think I haven't done this a number of times? When a a media outlet makes a decision to alter the purpose of a segment of their operation into a vehicle for ideologically driven propaganda, they don't publish dissenters. I've read and enjoyed the WSJ for many years, but over the last year the editorial content had gone through quite a change.
Granted, OpEd columns aren't reportage but opinion, and we all know about opinions and how most of them stink.
But with the tobacco vs dope fallacy, it doesn't even take much of a logistician to take a little effort to connect even some of the dots to see that the quote is...tripe. People willing to make up their own minds by doing a bit of research will make up their own minds. People who like to be told what to think and have no interest in doing some research will be happy to believe it.
Politics is forbidden here, and I won't buck that.
still think the biggest danger in pipes is lack of interest by the general population. And that said it's really easy to regulate a product that is manufactured more so like cigarettes where the levels are intentionally controlled, then something that just happens to grow a certain way.
Saw two good, like-minded takes on tv last night?...just a stupid attempt to distract from everything else going down rn.
These guys never give up, I seem to remember "light" cigarettes to help one quite, how did that work out?
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The FDA is poised to set a maximum nicotine level in cigarettes and some other tobacco products, looking to make them less addictive and wean smokers away from the habit. Despite an overall trend away from smoking, tobacco use remains the No. 1 cause of preventable deaths in the United States.
"Lowering nicotine levels to minimally addictive or non-addictive levels would decrease the likelihood that future generations of young people become addicted to cigarettes and help more currently addicted smokers to quit," FDA Commissioner Robert M. Califf said as the agency announced its plan.
Outlining the potential benefits, the FDA notes that 480,000 people die each year from disease attributed to smoking. Overall, it says, "tobacco use costs nearly $300 billion a year in direct health care and lost productivity."
The FDA plans to issue its proposed rule in May 2023.
The FDA wants to regulate nicotine for the first time : NPR
Make sense to me. I figure most of the member here are adults and can decide knowing the dangers. Not so much with young folks who might not understand the risks.
The FDA is poised to set a maximum nicotine level in cigarettes and some other tobacco products, looking to make them less addictive and wean smokers away from the habit. Despite an overall trend away from smoking, tobacco use remains the No. 1 cause of preventable deaths in the United States.
"Lowering nicotine levels to minimally addictive or non-addictive levels would decrease the likelihood that future generations of young people become addicted to cigarettes and help more currently addicted smokers to quit," FDA Commissioner Robert M. Califf said as the agency announced its plan.
Outlining the potential benefits, the FDA notes that 480,000 people die each year from disease attributed to smoking. Overall, it says, "tobacco use costs nearly $300 billion a year in direct health care and lost productivity."
The FDA plans to issue its proposed rule in May 2023.
The FDA wants to regulate nicotine for the first time : NPR
Make sense to me. I figure most of the member here are adults and can decide knowing the dangers. Not so much with young folks who might not understand the risks.
Could be that by regulating the nicotine this will just cause smokers to purchase more cigarettes in order to get the amount they have become use to and therefore create more revenue in taxes. Follow the money.