It's getting really hard for him to keep his eye on the ball. He keeps getting distracted by nonsense like this...
He wants us all to live in a nanny state.
The Biden administration is planning to push a policy that would
require tobacco companies to reduce the level of nicotine in cigarettes sold in the U.S. The policy would see the amount of nicotine reduced to 'nonaddictive levels'.
Although it would likely not come into force for several years, the move would likely disrupt the entire tobacco industry.
Smokers needn't be too concerned in the short terms with a number of hurdles still to be passed.
The Food and Drug Administration first needs to outline the proposed new rules before inviting comments from the public. Then final rules would be published.
Even then, tobacco companies would be able to sue likely delaying any implementation of the policy reports the Wall Street Journal.
The administration had been weighing whether to push ahead with the policy as part of President Biden's Cancer Moonshot initiative which hopes to reduce deaths from cancer by at least 50% over the next 25 years.
The move would be the biggest step by the government to curb smoking since 1998 when tobacco companies paid more than $200 billion to help states pay for healthcare.
New restrictions on marketing were also agreed at the time including a ban on free samples and billboard advertising.
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Great....."Prohibition" again....only for tobacco. We'll see cartels smuggling cartons of cigarettes across the border to satisfy demands. With the accompanying violence that such smuggling always brings.
ReplyDeleteInflation is taxation without direct legislation. Raising taxes is what he and the democrats want. The less you have to spend, the more they have. The more people in poverty, the more people dependent on them. This is by design. It is not an unfortunate side effect.
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