In this video blog, I discuss some of the more ridiculous portions of the new tobacco bill, which President Obama signed into law today. The new law gives the FDA control over the tobacco industry, bans flavored cigarettes, flavored cigars, clove cigarettes, etc. In short, this is yet another freedom being taken away from adults in the United States under the guise of the government protecting us. Protecting us from what? Free will? The right to choose what we consume? In addition to furthering the Nanny State, this new bill also had some suspicious involvement from Philip Morris. Click play for more.

8/14/09 - Now over 600 plays with ALL FIVE-STAR ratings, despite the fact that YouTube froze the view count at 305 for WEEKS as part of its misguided anti-spam campaign. No one ever artificially inflated my view count. This video has been linked to and viewed because of relative content. Even those who don't agree with it watched it because I make RELEVANT POINTS, not because they were duped into viewing so I could boost my view count. YouTube needs to rethink their view count freezing campaign!

8/25/09 - Received a new spike in views as we approach the Sept. 22nd deadline when clove cigarettes will be pulled off of shelves and become illegal. The video has recently been reposted several times on Facebook and MySpace. And, once again, YouTube appears to have needlessly frozen the view count, which is extremely frustrating.

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