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Tobacco Roundup

posted by cmn32480 on Saturday May 07 2016, @04:54AM   Printer-friendly
from the industry-is-going-up-in-smoke dept.

U.S. to Crack Down on Tobacco, Electronic Cigarettes

butthurt writes:

NBC News and the Providence Journal report that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has published a rule which will classify cigars, chewing tobacco and nicotine-containing fluid for electronic cigarettes as tobacco products. Under the rule, sale of those items to people under 18 years of age is to be prohibited. The electronic parts of electronic cigarettes are not covered by the rule. According to NBC News, the rule "will be open for public comment before it becomes final." The FDA regulates cigarettes and loose tobacco for smoking.

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Courts in EU, India Uphold Anti-tobacco Laws

butthurt writes:

On 4 May the European Court of Justice turned down challenges to the 2014 revision of the Tobacco Products Directive. The law entails enlargement of warnings, prohibition of menthol cigarettes, prohibition of packages holding fewer than 20 cigarettes, restrictions on advertising of electronic cigarettes, and limits on the nicotine content of fluid for electronic cigarettes. It enables EU countries to require plain packaging. The court said the regulations were necessary to comply with the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.

Also on 4 May, India's Supreme Court declined to further delay the implementation of a requirement for larger warning messages on cigarette packages. Several cigarette manufacturers including ITC Ltd. have shut down their factories. The chairman of ITC decried the requirement, saying:

Behind this is vested interests... where money is given into the hands of so-called NGOs, who are being influenced to kill local brands knowing fully well that smuggled cigarettes of some other industry are going to be used here.

Golden Tobacco in Gujarat has been following the rule, which had originally been intended to take effect 1 April 2016, "from April 2015 [sic]."

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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by devlux on Saturday May 07 2016, @12:54PM

    by devlux (6151) on Saturday May 07 2016, @12:54PM (#342878)

    I realize that was sarcasm but it's actually true.
    People don't understand addiction. They think it's addiction to "a thing", but it's not.
    Addiction is dependence upon a thing for part of your identity.
    If people smoke it becomes part of their identity "I am a smoker", not simply "I smoke".
    "I am a drinker", instead of simply "I drink", etc and so forth.

    Addictive personalities will tend to become addicted to anything you put in front of them that gives them a positive sensation, especially if you can make a group activity of it.
    Whereas those without the addictive personality traits can pick up and put down harmful addictive substances at will and without effort.

    I speak as someone who has been there and done that. Some people just don't need anything external to feel whole and complete and if you're like that then you're not likely to become addicted to anything.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by frojack on Saturday May 07 2016, @06:37PM

    by frojack (1554) on Saturday May 07 2016, @06:37PM (#342958) Journal

    And then there are others, like me, who see the damage smoking or drinking or drugs have done to the lives of others and make (and mostly keep) a silent vow to never get involved in the first place. Parents and siblings have fallen prey to smoking, and one to alcohol, and that only stiffened my resolve.
    I suffer from a case of deliberate cowardice of these things.

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    No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 07 2016, @07:22PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 07 2016, @07:22PM (#342972)

      Hear, hear.

      Both of my parents drink (at times heavily, at times lightly) and smoke. My granddad was a chain smoker so bad even my mom (a smoker herself) had to open the windows after his visit.

      Anyway, I never touched neither tobacco, alcohol nor (by transitive property) drugs. I'm very okay with being a coward in this respect. I also have to hold my breath near tobacco smoke... it now causes an almost allergic reaction.