A Non-Smoker's Rant On President Obama's Signing Of The New Tobacco Bill

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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[SmokingEssy7887]

you can still buy cloves Shane their just little cigars now and the tip is laced with a flavor instead of the tobacco being flavored just a FYI I know you don't you smoke often

[silverladderdotcom]

@SmokingEssy7887 Oh I know. Thanks, though. =) Keep in mind that this video is two years old. About five months later I discovered that the tobacco companies had circumvented the law by producing clove "cigars."

[SmokingEssy7887]

Your absolutely right that the government is trying to protect us from ourselves, just yesterday I tried twice to buy lottery tickets with a debit card and I couldn't. The reason I could up with for this BS is that the government or state is trying to protect ADULTs (18 or older) from gambling their savings away on scratch tickets, isn't that my choice at 20 if I want to spend my money on lottery tickets, no I guess it's not anymore unless you have cash on you

[silverladderdotcom]

@SmokingEssy7887 Wow, where do you live where they're doing that? So it isn't even a matter of buying an excessive amount of lottery tickets, it's a matter of you trying to use a debit card as opposed to cash? Crazy.

[SmokingEssy7887]

@silverladderdotcom another correction I wanted to make is that you have to 19 years old to smoke in AL AK UT and NJ

[silverladderdotcom]

@SmokingEssy7887 This is true.  What I was emphasizing was more that in all 50 states, someone has to be at *least* 18 to smoke (if not older). Thank you for the input. =)

[510FILMS]

Your actually right when you mention "what's next? Alcohol? Caffeine?..." Bye bye Four Loko, Joose, etc...

[silverladderdotcom]

@510FILMS Exactly. A question I asked back in June 2009 indeed became very relevant in November/December of 2010 when they started going after Four Loko. Once again they said they were doing it "to protect the children." Never mind the fact that now college kids will simply go back to having to mix caffeinated beverages (Red Bull, Monster, Redline, etc.) with alcohol (including many forms with an ABV much higher than Four Loko's 12%) by themselves. And this makes us all safer & better how?

[Fireblaze15]

We should let people do bad shit lol. Would fix the population problem. As long as you educate what the fuck that bad shit is for then I think thats Law enough. Washington can go fuck itself.

[jmuckeroy]

@ITSBRYINDY correction, its waaaay safer, and healthier than alcohol, and even tylenol etc. you cant overdose on the good ole herbs.. you'd have to smoke like 15,000 blunts at one time, and even then you die of the smoke, and that harm rather any properties in cannibus. total bullshit, but we cant complain, we let it happen, it is a plant like we all say, which means it can be sown. even george washinton said to "sow the indian hemp seed wherever you can" (in loose wording)

[Riketz]

How about the fact that despite the crazy ammount of American tax dollars comes from the inflated tobacco tax that was enacted during the Bush admnistration, yet I can't smoke in a bar because I live near Houston? Or how in multiple states and cities across the country, I can't even smoke outdoors? Funny how a group that gives a shit ton of money to the government has no pull. Probably because I'm not the CEO of Goldman. Like Bush's entire treasury department was. The guys who deregulated banks.

[RuneFinity44]

@silverladderdotcom

I know my cousin wanted me to post it