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Tuesday, June 21, 2011

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U.S. releases graphic tobacco warning labels

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Proposed in November under a law that put the multibillion-dollar tobacco industry under the control of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the new labels must be on cigarette packages and in advertisements no later than September 2012. They represent the first change in cigarette warnings in 25 years.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg were to discuss the nine new warnings blah-blah blah,

Playing the role of "Bitch of Buchenwald;" Kathleen Sebelius

Giving the FDA dominion over the tobacco industry had been thought constitutionally questionable (at best) since David Kessler tried to grab it during the Clinton Horror. Obamunists just went ahead and did it, effectively nationalizing yet another business. Now government nannies get to spend monopoly money designing new useless warnings that they can then force ... Aw to hell with them! Click-Click!

Rodger the Real King of France 6/21/2011 12:58:00 PM 10 Comments

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toadold said...: Well my relatives gave me this old '95 S-10 four door blazer beater on the condition I get my old ass off my motorcycle. I can barely afford to gas it up but I bet I could carry a pretty big load of Indian cigarettes in it. If I get tossed in the clink I'll get better medical care than I can afford now.; 6/21/11, 1:45 PM
Murphy(AZ) said...: The whole world has known since the '60's (or maybe-sorta before that) that cigarrettes might/maybe could KILL YOU!!!

Most of us smokers pretty much said: "Well yeah, so what?" and kept up lighting up.

Then the cost of smokes started to rise.... I gave 'em up when it crossed sixty cents a pack. I know folks who STILL smoke a pack or two-a-day at OVER $9 a pack!

I don't know too many of them who bother to read the GUMMINT Warnings; they pay more attention to what their bank says they still have in their accounts before they're totally broke and then smoke free.

Meanwhile, most of us "reformed" sinners make regular runs to the Indian Casinos (sorry... Native American Indigent Resident's Facilities Of Chance,) to trans-ship tax-free smokes to those "willing" to spend more than the untaxed price but less than the Federally approved pricing structure.

Hey... it beats Social Security!; 6/21/11, 4:13 PM
Anonymous said...: If only the FDA would regulate gawdy hand and arm ink on young girls. Seriously sweetie, are you really afraid you'll mistakenly fall backwards into a high paying job? Those pot leafs on your fingers should do the trick for the next 60 years.; 6/21/11, 4:50 PM
B....... said...: Shame on you Murphy. Say, wanna trade some smokes for some fresh shine?; 6/21/11, 6:19 PM
Anonymous said...: Indians or Arabs or Brooklyn or somewhere in Tobaccoland, the same crap will still appear on the pack if sold in the USA.
A while back, I was looking for details on what my grandaddy did in WW1, and read a number of diaries and letters home from the Front, and in 1917-1918, the men were calling cigarettes "coffin nails".
I recollect my father and uncle calling them cancer sticks in the 50's and 60's, and I have an excerpt of a page from an English newspaper ca. 1700 that slammed "smoaking" as offensive and dangerous.
The common denominator in all this is that bureaucrats are genetically inclined to want to control you and find a scheme whereby they can make you believe the drones are helping you as well getting you to either gladly or unknowingly pay for the service.
Lt. Col. Gen. Tailgunner dick; 6/21/11, 7:22 PM
Anonymous said...: Every time a smoker quits a child dies.

Yat; 6/22/11, 1:43 AM
Anonymous said...: Really? I thought an angel got his wings ripped off.

Casca; 6/22/11, 3:37 AM
Anonymous said...: I remember back as far as '57 cigs were called "coffin nails" or "cancer sticks".

As was said at the time, "Anyone can quit smoking. But it takes a REAL man to face cancer!"

The Hairy Wombat; 6/22/11, 8:32 AM
TheOldMan said...: $9/pack?!?!?! Wow I had no idea they were that expensive in some places. I know most of it is taxes but it makes me happy that I hold many, many thousands of shares of Altria and Philip Morris International.; 6/22/11, 3:49 PM
Anonymous said...: I knew this cool old dude back about ten years ago that was dying from lung disease. He was 81 and told me that when he started smoking as a kid; they referred to cigerettes as "coffin nails". So for over eight decades most non-moronic people knew tobacco was dangerous.

-Ichi.; 6/23/11, 12:21 PM

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