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Are the new FDA restrictions on tobacco products an abuse of government power?
In a recent news article posted on Yahoo! "Historic anti-smoking vote to give FDA new power", it states that "The legislation [...] would give the Food and Drug Administration authority to regulate the content, marketing and advertising of cigarettes and other tobacco products.



I don't smoke cigarettes, nor do I advocate them, but think is a gross abuse of government power. Tobacco products already have the strictest rules concerning advertising (in CA ads are practically limited to magazines and gas stations only). Now the government is attempting to regulate it even more.



Also, in an odd "change-of-the-poles" effect, the government now IS Big Tobacco. Picture this, the government is now in control of what Big Tobacco makes, how it makes it, what it markets, how it advertises, and profits from it substantially through 300%+ tax rates excised on tobacco products in cities such as New York.



Does anyone else see several very wrong things with this scenario? Please no heated remarks about how cigarettes kill - WE KNOW.
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The bill gives the FDA to not only regulate nicotine and tar, it allows them to outlaw tobacco completely. The reasoning is that curtailing smoking is in the public good, promotes better health, and will lower health costs.

All admirable.

However, it is the camel under the tent that bothers me.

The same argument can be said about regulating butter, red meat, alcohol, and sugar.

While obesity and heart disease are far larger health risks and cost society much more in terms of long term health care, (lung cancer is a very efficient killer, most patients die within 2 years. Diabetes, on the other hand takes decades of care, and vis a vis lung cancer, costs the medical system much more. So if they can justify limiting nicotine, they can surely justify limiting your sugar content.

Problem is I dont want the government telling me how much sugar I , or you, can partake in.

Beware, more governmnet dictums are on the way.



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