Truth About Cigarette Regulation and the FDA

The recent move by our government to put cigarette regulation under the FDA (Food & Drug Administration) is a big deal, but not for the reason it seems. Most articles and news stories on this recent change in tobacco policy applaud this as both a positive change and a major shift in US policy on tobacco.

This is true, but at the same time, it isnt maybe the whole truth. The big deal is that tobacco companies have effectively lobbied against and avoided this shift in regulation for decades. Further, during that time I have heard that tobacco does not fit into the standards of the FDA and would not be approvable. One of the provisions of this is that the FDA would not be able to place an outright ban on the sales and use of tobacco products.

So what exactly does this change mean? The regulation requires a reduction of the ability to market cigarettes and other tobacco products. For example, point of sale promotions will be reduced including no freebie give away with purchase. Also, the packs themselves are required to have a warning on half the front and half the back, much like cigarette packs in Canada. The big one, is that cigarettes will no longer be able to labeled as light, ultra-light, low tar. Also, flavored cigarettes, including cloves, would also be banned....

....but wait, here is where the whole thing changes around. Why does the biggest cigarette company in the country support this? Simple. There is a huge exemption in this regulation... existing products will be allowed to remain. So there you go, competition effectively eliminated. No new competitors will be able to come on the scene offering light strawberry flavored cigarettes.

Isnt there always some sort of back room deal? Even in the Obama administration, the guise is a healthier policy about tobacco products, and in some ways, it is a move in the right direction, but in the end... it aids huge tobacco companies in locking down their sales, the industry and their power.

Truth About Cigarette Regulation and the FDA.
By Chris Corsello
[July 2009]
(NorCalCorsello on YouTube)
(Corsello on MySpace and Facebook)

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• tobacco
• regulation
• FDA
• truth
• NorCalCorsello

[gfbmusic]

smoke weed... tobacco is nasty!

[MsRebeccadawn]

You like the direction the country is headed in? But, didnt you post the video because you felt that the government was trying to pull the wool over everyone in the countries eyes; they tried to pull this off as preventing teen smoking, when there is really another agenda behind this ban. How can we like the direction of our country if that direction involves our government continuously lying to us, as they slowly take away our rights, as we become more and more accustomed to loosing them.

[cdoftx]

@ChicanoTattooArt Fuck you. I enjoyed an occasional clove cigarette. Thank you for preventing me from exercising my free will. What goes around comes around though. Sooner or later someone's going to ban something you like.

[watkins49ok]

Hello. My brothers/Sisters. 07/06/11 2:49 AM

I want to talk about african american smocking cigarettes.

As you no more blacks dieing from smocking then whites because of poor and uneducated about smocking altogather.

My hope is that african americans will learn how to say no to drugs smocking cigarettes.

And drinking alcohol I hope we all can learn how to walk away from it all just say no

[tbell20101]

Communism

[ChicanoTattooArt]

I heard you can still buy these from china. im glad cloves were banned, those thigns stink bad when im at the bar i would get nauseated.

[ChicanoTattooArt]

@rlane4osu yea but they are still ultral lights or lights they just dont say that on the pack.

[XXinsan3XX21]

vid is 420 sweet

[ThunderZone9]

The United States needs to keep tobacco legalized. At this point there are too many people hooked on it to be made illegal. The government is making billions of dollars through sin tax that they would otherwise have to get through other methods.

[wackmatt92]

mmmmmm i love me so cigs lol best thing to smoke when ur high lol sooo good