Tobacco?

[Dapper Dan]

So, I'm just curious... how many people out there use tobacco in some form or another? Also, I think (or at least somewhat hope) that its pretty common knowldege that tobacco products aren't healthy for you, so as to the people who do use tobacco, I'd like to know why you use it :heee:

(NOTE: this is how I can justifiy being on this website at work now..lol ;) )

[Jill Monroe]

well i was always taught to avoid tobacco products so I will be less than helpfull to you on this.

what I am curious about though is that chewable tobacco...do people REALLY like that? what does it taste like?

[Angels baby101]

I dont smoke or chew or any of that... never have .

My step dad does the whole chewing tobacco and i always thought it to be disgusting I mean i dont know what it tastes like but it cant be too good....

[Fake Shemp]

I don't in any way *ponders* well I have but nope and don't care to.

[Black King]

i not a avid smoker though i have tried it and i got to say i'm no fan of it. Smoked some cloves, did hookah and actually everything but normal tobacco lol

[Nix]

I have to say i smoke normal fags (cigarettes!) have smoked on and off since i was 17. I want to give up again by the end of this year for my daughter :)

[LizzieRainbow]

I used to smoke all of the time when i was in high school but then i got asthma so i gave it up. Only problem is when i get stressed i reach for one as that was what i used to always do when i did smoke.
One thing that im curious about though....some of my friends in college hated cigarettes and would never touch them, but they were happy to use them to make a joint! They thought smoking a joint was fine but smoking a cigarette was the worst thing in the world. Has anybody else ever met anyone who thinks like that?

[Jill Monroe]

i know quite a few people who have the opinion that "cigarettes are bad but weed is good because its natural" lol. I dont do either. I also have asthma (inherited) and i was pretty much raised to view smoking as a bad and unecessary health risk. plus it promotes premature aging and loss of beauty. for me, weed wasnt some wonderfull herbal experience. it left me nauseated and the only way i could find relief was to go to sleep.

[Caroline Forbes]

Doesn't weed have a mild form of acid in it? (Thank you, Family Guy.)

[LizzieRainbow]

Im sure it does, which is why i couldn't understand why my friends thought it was better than just smoking :S

[Jacob Black]

I don't care.. I love marijuana. I think it's an awesome recreational drug, and while I do not do it every day or even really that much at all, if I am at a friend's house and they offer, I will accept! :xyxthumbs:

[Dapper Dan]

Ok, just maybe to start this up again.... what do you guys make of this awesome little piece of legislation?

New Law Bans Flavored Cigarettes
Fruity-Flavored Smokes Forbidden Under New Crackdown on Tobacco
By BRIAN HARTMAN
Sept. 22, 2009—

Anyone selling cigarettes flavored with cloves, fruit -- anything but
menthol -- is a criminal under a ban that marks the first assault in
a new war on tobacco.

The law, enacted this summer and kicking in today, directs the FDA to
crack down on candy and fruit-flavored cigarettes that public health
officials say turn children into life-long nicotine addicts.

"These flavored cigarettes are a gateway for many children and young
adults to become regular smokers," FDA Commissioner Dr. Margaret
Hamburg told reporters.

The FDA has sent a letter to tobacco companies warning the agency will
take action against those who continue to make, distribute or sell
flavored cigarettes in violation of the law. Border agents have been
instructed to block imports of flavored cigarettes.

Federal officials and tobacco control advocates could not say exactly
how many people use these products. But Dr. Lawrence Deyton, head of
the FDA's new Center for Tobacco Products, said they are favored by
teens.

"Studies show that 17-year-old smokers are three times as likely to
use flavored cigarettes as smokers over the age of 25," Deyton said.

Tobacco companies sweeten their cigarettes because "flavors make
cigarettes and other tobacco products more appealing to youth," he
added.

Deyton read what he called "a historic memo" from one tobacco
manufacturer, outlining plans to directly target children by making "a
cigarette that's obviously youth-oriented" and by featuring "flavor
which would be candy-like but give the satisfaction of a cigarette."

Calling tobacco addiction a "public health catastrophe," one of the
Obama administration's top officials, Assistant Secretary for Health
Howard Koh, put the cigarette industry on notice that this is just the
beginning of a "new chapter in public health efforts at tobacco
control."

The law will require tobacco companies to register with the FDA. And
Deyton said the agency will soon require those cigarette makers to
turn over information about the "constituent components of tobacco
products." The FDA will work with CDC scientists to investigate the
safety of those ingredients.

An Unprecedented Effort
As for flavorings, the law specifically exempted the most popular one
-- menthol. But the agency is studying ways to close that loophole --
and to regulate flavorings in cigars, chewing tobacco and snuff.

It's all part of an unprecedented federal effort to reduce what Koh
said is a public health threat that causes 438,000 deaths one of
every five deaths - each year. Adults who smoke, he said, die an
average of 14 years earlier than non-smokers.

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