FDA wants to regulate cigars
Of course, they do. An extension of their push to regulate cigarettes.
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September 23rd, 2011 at 9:42 am
Just another way to regulate every day life. I am not a big cigar fan but I still know a power grab by shit eating weasels when I see one.
September 23rd, 2011 at 9:51 am
F*ck them. I want my damn vice. I’m an adult.
September 23rd, 2011 at 9:54 am
Had the pleasure of meeting Jonathan Drew a couple weeks ago. I know he’s lobbying hard on this.
September 23rd, 2011 at 11:50 am
It certainly is ironic that the entity charged with regulating and maintaining SAFETY of things, wants to regulate something KNOWN to be unsafe.
Now excuse me while I book a return trip to the Dominican Republic so I drink rum and smoke Cubans….
September 23rd, 2011 at 12:46 pm
Nope. FDA already does regulate cigars. No “wants to” about it. You link to company wanting to be less regulated, not trying to prevent regulation.
September 23rd, 2011 at 4:06 pm
Well yeah. Is there anything they don’t want to restrict and tax?
September 23rd, 2011 at 5:21 pm
s/cigars/people/
September 23rd, 2011 at 6:23 pm
This is not really the fault of over-doing things at the FDA. The legislature establishing it said (among other things) that it should regulate anything taken into the human body that is a known poison or carcinogen. The law, of course, was written when most things could at best be measured in parts-per-million, but most can now be measured in parts-per-billion or less. Thus arsenic in cigars, for example, would not have been detectable at the time but is fairly easy to find now.
As to the EPA, well, they can claim – correctly – much the same. But right from the start the political heads there routinely overrode the scientists as to what that agency should do with the science. The scientists wanted farmers to be instructed DDT as the makers instructed, which was quite safe, but the politico decided since it could be dangerous if misused (y using about twenty times the recommended amount) then instead of going after the idiots who did not read the instructions the stuff should be effectively banned.
OSHA is not yet quite as bad, but the potential is there in the legislation again. It could become as bad as the English “Health and Safety” which does things like not allow police and fire personnel to try to rescue someone who is drowning for fear they might drown as well.
These agencies, and many others, are required to come up with regulations (and associated fees, fines, etc.). Which might be OK if they were made as proposals and submitted to Congress for approval. As is, they effectively make laws, police those laws, pass judgement on alleged offenders, and decide on the punishment to mete out.
September 23rd, 2011 at 6:56 pm
Dude, they want to take away over-the-counter inhalers too, to save the ozone layer. http://wp.me/p1NAwV-k0
Now, you get to suffer or pay up to three times as much for a prescription inhaler. The warrior for the middle class strikes again!
September 24th, 2011 at 6:39 am
We’re only $15 trillion in the hole, so we can afford to pay for more government regulation? Obama’s term in the White House is going to be self-limiting.