FDA bans flavored/clove cigs to "protect public health."

this is unquestionably one of the most wack, illogical and ridiculous bans the fda has ever put into action..

what else is there to say? the fda's decision making is de-evolving... what a pathetic waste.

I loved the smell of clove ciggs, the FDA should stay with regular ciggs they are the ones that kill,not clove.

Since when did the FDA care about our health? The FDA has become a political tool and science that is purchased for political reasons.

I don't trust the FDA anymore to be unbiased.

I'm drinking straight bourbon whiskey, taking prescription hydrocodone, smoking a flavored cigarette and firing my licensed revolver into a nearby tree.

Guess which one of these is illegal.

THIS IS BULLSHIT!

I personally don't like cigarettes, but it you want to slowly kill yourself through tar inhalation, no one should stop you.

I'd rather smoke weed than tobacco anyday.

fukk dat!! im gona go vuy 50 pakks. haha :/ kinda bummed. those r the only ones il smoke. the reasst make ppl smell lik white trash

re-legalize it and tax the shit out of it. we need that cash.

Someone favorite this page, for easy referencing when the first Clove smoker goes to jail for smoking a banned cigarette!

Why can't we just let people enjoy the things they enjoy if they are not hurting anyone? Come on FDA you have such bigger fish to fry, why don't you improve our food and drug industries, and let people have their tabacco.

cigarettes are nasty anyways...smoke pot instead.

Hmm, is there a possibility that this in fact, would also make the import and sale of hookah tobacco illegal? I'm pretty sure it falls under "flavored tobacco". And as to all this talk about how cloves aren't for sale. As much as I can say that they are good. I think it is true that it does get people started smoking at a younger age. When I was younger, I'd enjoy clove cigarettes better than the normal camel cigarette. So I can se where the FDA is coming from, although making it Illegal may be going to far, but I guess the smokers of America will just take one for the team on this one.

Couldn't one argue to ban flavored alcohol beverages such as wine coolers, mikes hard lemonade, ect? It's obviously geared towards people under legal drinking age. Nobody is upset about that.

This is leading to prohibition again, but over tobacco?

I thought the liberals were good about keeping our personal rights in place, that they only regulated the evils of "excess" money...

I love how apocalyptic people get anytime cigarettes have any sort of ban or tax put on them.

It's amazing what an addiction can do to make people desperate.

The best part is the attacks on others for being irrational during the rants.

At any rate. I'll agree this ban is silly. I just love the slippery slope mentality people get when anything they like ends up having any sort of roadblock.

I can't masturbate in public, you don't see me running out and making a website devoted to the legalization of jerking it on a park bench.

I imagine the original thought process behind this ban was just that many of the names of flavored cigarettes were obviously targeting people far younger than 18. They had names that were almost sesame street inspired.

In the end if everyone coming to the table for cigarettes was honest this sort of thing wouldn't happen. For the most part people have nobody to blame but disingenous tobacco sales tactics. It's not much deeper than that.

I wish all you smokers the best and just remember that the 2000's have been the largest years for ban removals in the last 50 years or so according to Google (which I figure is accurate enough for this post).

>>just because there are options doesnt mean the government should allow them,>certain unalienable Rights,

The government should not be protecting me from myself, just as it should not think for anyone.

i bet most of you advocates for freedom think you should be able to ingest arsenic pills if you wanted as well. True Freedom. come on people, the masses are ignorant and easily swayed and sometimes people just dont know whats good for them. just because there are options doesnt mean the government should allow them, in reality a government is there to protect its people, and as much as we want to fight it, sometimes we should listen. im not saying tobacco is really that bad, or flavord cigarettes, but a problem arises when someone with no self control begins smoking a pack or 2 a day. it doesnt matter if youre smoking tea leaves, that shit will kill you. lets not lie to ourselves, smoke in your lungs is not a good thing, however enjoyable it may be. and as for smokers of cannabis, there is no possible way to smoke as much pot in a day as a serous cigarette smoker can, youd pass out before half a pack of "pot cigarettes", so its not accurate to compare the 2 because consumption is completely different. im not saying that we should do away with our options but there are things that are not good for us and we need to learn some self control.

This is effing bullshit. I'm not a smoker (never really was), but I used to enjoy smoking a djarum every now and then while out drinking back at college.

Take away advertising, promote anti smoking campaigns that show how pointless it is to pick up the habit . . . but don't effing ban them! People should have the choice.

I'm gonna go buy a pack for the first time in several years . . . must, have . . . forbidden fruit!

This is such a stupid idea. Some of us Liberals thinks this is a win but their precious weed isnt legalised either so everybody loses. I'm a non smoking boarderline socialist and I think this is bullshit. We need freedom of choice to go along with our health care or it's not freedom at all it's a dictatorship telling us what we can and cannot eat, drink, and smoke. Fuck those pot smoking hypocrites at TRUTH look what you've started.

Next thingy,they will control whether one purchases one or two ply Toilet paper,, use leaves off the tree instead,,Their choice for us is one ply,while they use
two ply soft,,, they use our tax dollars for them self,,,I guess they wish for us to Advance to the Rear,,while they only, move forward,,,

My poor Kreteks... I already got four different stores last shipments. I guess I'll have to go through online vendors. If it gets bad, they sell dried clove at the grocery store. Roll yo Own!

shit , tobacco kills more people than fda drugs, alchohol,guns,illegal drugs and the war combined.........
its a health pandemic...........1200 people died today from cigaretts. for no good reason.

That sucks blacks are technically a cigar. I was watching a current piece on TV about cigar makers, and one of them even said cigars don't raise life insurance premiums because they pose less of a health risk. Horrible, I love those little tasty bastards.... And the damn wine flavored ones, even the occasional clove cigarette...

This is horrible talk all the crap you want about cigarettes, but every time I turn around I'm seeing a 70+ year old smoking cigarettes and doing fine.

The only thing funnier than a smoking chimp is a 90 year great grandmother (that could still whoop your ass) chain-smoking and in almost perfect health.

Yeah cigarettes kill, but not everyone... They don't even hurt everyone who uses them....

forget the FDA, I've seen the effects of some of the shit they approve...

That is n.s.

ps - i heard you can still import these fairly inexpensively if you're really that hardcore about them.

Cloves aren't targeting underage smokers - nor are underage smokers buying a pack a cigarettes that are twice the cost of a normal pack. People buying these cigarettes are casual smokers who can't stand those nasty fucking flavorless cigarettes. People are idiots.

Smoke while you got them. Just the next step to making cigarettes illegal, and to making some third world country dictator rich by selling them.

no no no! shit shit shit! all i ever smoke are blacks!!! they are the defining sophisticated yummy hipster pure bliss nicotine high ever! fuck you GOVT! i am stockpiling on the internet. (btw, 7-11 has replaced black cigs with black cigars and they fucking suck!)

NOOOOO!!!! not BLACK!!! SHIT! i should go buy like 20 packs *sigh*... guess ill have to order them online.

fda bans cigs and does nothing for shitty food, or shitty drugs, or shitty monsanto.

This is total bull shit! I'm 18 right now and cloves are all i ever smoke-which is rare in itself! The problem with underage smoking isn't cloves! You aren't going to stop it by taking away cloves. The FDA has gone too far this time. They shouldn't take these away from us because underage people are smoking them. 18+ citizens know full well the risks. That's why the damn FDA puts the label on the damn box! Let us make our conscious decision to smoke it! I really feel like punching the FDA right in the ovaries. Fuck!

i understand irony is lost on most. but to justify killing people is just that. my herb hurts no one and its illegal. what gives. thats the worlds worst double standard.
everything else that can kill you (chemically) is regulated. maybe if you only smoked 5 a day.at ten bucks a pop. like my weed costs me. nobody would get cancer.....make em ten buck a cig.....heath care my ass. with people willingly buying shit thats worse than heroin.
no wonder we have the worst health in the world.

do you geniuses realize that you are proponents of PROHIBITION?

How did that turn out?

This is what is so f*ing funny about liberals. On the one hand you nuts promote the legalization of marijuana (and some want legalization of other drugs as well, under the guise of liberty and to 'end the war on drugs', which is a war on the smuggling of contraband substances that are highly desired), and then applaud a NEW prohibition, "for our health".

Are you aware that there is already a black market for cigarrettes that has created a whole new illegal and violent trade?

GENIUSES!

NEXT to be banned (to reduce health care costs):
Motorcycles
Whitewater kayaks
sky diving
caffeine
sugared drinks
race cars

this is insanity

all cigaretts should be illegal. that would help more people than any government run healthcare !
you cant make marijuana illegal but not smokes. its hypocritical and stats stand by Cannabis ! 1200 people died from tobacco today. i know i said that yesterday too. but tomorrow cigaretts will kill two times more people than swine flu has killed all year. in a day ! put that in your newport and smoke it. fire it up!

Actually, they are determined to control every aspect of your health so that you live a healthy life and not consume too many of the resources that will create a greater health expense.

Wow, really? No more black and milds, cloves, etc.?

They are determined to only allow bad-smelling cigarettes. Argh...