Dodd Calls for Quick Action to Protect Children from Dangers of Smoking

[Lokivoid]

"Protect Children from Dangers" Bullshit. nothing in the bill effects children what so ever. And it is not a "public health issue" it does not cost you dearly according to last annual report you infact made three times more from tobacco tax then we spent on health care for tobacco related illnesses. Allso substract the pention pay all those who died from tobacco related causes from health care total. This is just a medical tax excuse full of "watermark" pay off's

[dayindayout77]

Yea Ted Kennedy isn't with us today because he has a big ass brain tumor. Shit, i guess we can still die from cancer even if we don't smoke. I'm not a smoker, but if people want to smoke let them. We're all going to die anyway. And i knew that smoking was bad for you and could kill you by the time that i was 12 years old. Kids smoke because they see other people smoking, not because they see a freaking add in a magazine.

[FrsBigeasy]

I'm for the FDA regulating getting involved in how Tobacco is regulated in America. I'm not for prohibition, we tried that with alcohol which clearly didn't work. But I do think we can cut back on tobacco use by keeping it away from adolescents by putting in advertising restrictions & taxing it heavily so people might have to think twice before purchasing it.

[valcaron]

And this kind of abusing the tax system specifically for social engineering is exactly why I vote Libertarian.