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    New Eco-Friendly Cigarettes Kill Destructive Human Beings Over Time

    New Eco-Friendly Cigarettes Kill Destructive Human Beings Over Time

    More awesomeness from the Onion.

    Executives at Philip Morris USA this week unveiled Marlboro Earth, a new eco-friendly cigarette that gradually eliminates the causes of global warming and environmental destruction at their source.

    "By killing off the No. 1 threat to the environment, new Marlboro Earths will have a long-term effect on the overall health of our planet," Philip Morris spokesperson Janet Weiss said. "If everyone in America does their part and joins our new green-smoking movement, then together we can eradicate man's destructive practices once and for all."


    According to a press release from Philip Morris, the new environmentally friendly cigarettes work by employing powerful carcinogens that accumulate in the lungs of smokers, slowly breaking down their vital organs and eliminating the danger posed to the overpopulated planet by the human race.
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    But weed is good for you lol
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    US to ban e-cigarettes for under-18s...

    US announces ban on e-cigarettes for under-18s
    Thu, 05 May 2016 - The US government unveils new federal rules that include a ban on the sale of e-cigarettes to people aged under 18.
    The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will also require manufacturers to submit products to the agency for review. Cigars, pipe tobacco and hookah tobacco are also subject to the new rules. On Wednesday, California introduced new anti-smoking legislation that also regulates e-cigarettes. E-cigarettes are battery-operated devices that turn flavoured nicotine liquid into an inhalable vapour. They lack the chemicals and tars of tobacco and are widely used by smokers trying to kick the habit. However, the nicotine is addictive.


    In a statement, US secretary of health and human services Sylvia Burwell said the announcement was "an important step in the fight for a tobacco-free generation". "It will help us catch up with changes in the marketplace, put into place rules that protect our kids and give adults information they need to make informed decisions," she said. The FDA said that a recent survey showed e-cigarette use among high school students had risen from 1.5% in 2011 to 16% in 2015 and that the use of hookah tobacco had also increased significantly. It said the new rules, which come into effect in 90 days, will require retailers to ask buyers for proof of age and will ban the sale of the products in vending machines. Free samples will also be barred.

    Public health advocates welcomed the news. "Ending the tobacco epidemic is more urgent than ever, and can only happen if the FDA acts aggressively and broadly to protect all Americans from all tobacco products," said Harold Wimmer, president of the American Lung Association. In California, Democratic Governor Jerry Brown signed a total of five bills to restrict tobacco use in various ways, including regulating e-cigarettes and expanding funds for anti-smoking programmes. The rules raise the legal age for buying tobacco products in the state from 18 to 21, except for active military personnel. Electronic cigarettes, like traditional ones, will be banned in public spaces across the state.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-36213343
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    FDA Issues New Regulations for E-Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products
    May 5, 2016 | E-cigarettes will face new regulations by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, including requirements that affect manufacturing, ingredient labeling and not selling the product to those under the age of 18, the agency announced today.
    The FDA announced a plan to regulate e-cigarettes two years ago, but these are the first concrete regulations issued. The new rules affect not only e-cigarettes but more traditional tobacco products, including cigars, pipe tobacco and hookah tobacco. “We have more to do to help protect Americans from the dangers of tobacco and nicotine, especially our youth. As cigarette smoking among those under 18 has fallen, the use of other nicotine products, including e-cigarettes, has taken a drastic leap. All of this is creating a new generation of Americans who are at risk of addiction,” U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell said in a statement today. “Today’s announcement is an important step in the fight for a tobacco-free generation -- it will help us catch up with changes in the marketplace, put into place rules that protect our kids and give adults information they need to make informed decisions," Burwell said.




    Federal officials framed the new regulations as a way to take on the rapidly increasing rates of e-cigarette usage among teens. The new regulations will affect the selling, marketing and manufacturing of e-cigarettes and other tobacco products. Newly announced prohibitions on selling e-cigarettes, hookah tobacco and cigars to people under 18 or giving free samples will start to be enforced within 90 days, according to the FDA. Mitch Zeller, director of the Center for Tobacco Products, a part of the FDA, likened the current e-cigarette marketplace to "the wild, wild west," pointing out that there have been reports of e-cigarettes exploding in recent months, causing burns on teens. "Today is a first step, a foundational step, to bring all these previously unregulated products into the world of being regulated," Zeller said during a news conference today.


    Health officials have been concerned that teens and other young adults may view e-cigarettes as an alternative to cigarettes with a rising number of teens using e-cigarettes. A recent survey found current e-cigarette use among high school students has risen sharply, from 1.5 percent in 2011 to 16 percent in 2015, according to the FDA and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. An estimated 3 million middle and high school students were current e-cigarette users in 2015, according to the FDA. Data also showed high school boys smoked cigars at about the same rate as cigarettes.

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    But weed is good for you lol
    People don't smoke 20 to 40 joints per day the way many cigarette smokers do with cigs.

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    There's no replacing a Nice Cigar to Smoke and Chew On

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    Red face

    Wonder if it applies to lil' cigars too?...

    FDA Plans to Slash Nicotine Levels in Cigarettes
    March 15, 2018 - Cigarette smoking kills nearly a half-million Americans every year and costs the U.S. economy $300 billion in health care and lost productivity, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
    To help smokers kick the deadly habit and stop kids from starting, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration proposed rules Thursday to cut the nicotine in cigarettes to minimal or nonaddictive levels. “This milestone places us squarely on the road toward achieving one of the biggest public health victories in modern history and saving millions of lives in the process,” FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said Thursday. He said the FDA has a “vision of a world where combustible cigarettes would no longer create or sustain addiction.”

    Legal authority

    The FDA has the legal authority to regulate nicotine levels in cigarettes, but has always been met by court challenges from tobacco companies. Nicotine naturally occurs in tobacco. It is not deadly but is a highly addictive drug that helps make cigarettes so pleasurable to smokers. It is the burning tobacco leaf and the numerous additives used in cigarettes that lead to lung cancer, emphysema, and other deadly diseases and cancers. Secondhand smoke from cigarettes is also harmful to children and potentially lethal to adults.

    Public comment

    Gottlieb says the FDA is giving the public time to comment on the proposed mandated cuts in nicotine. He says it will help regulators answer such questions as what an acceptable level of nicotine is, whether the cuts should be introduced gradually or immediately, whether weaker cigarettes will bring on a black market for stronger smokes, and whether smokers will smoke more to compensate for the lower levels of the drug.


    A smoker discards a cigarette into a container at a designated smoking location in Seattle, Wash.


    The New England Journal of Medicine reports that if the FDA cuts the nicotine to what it regards as a nonaddictive level, 5 million smokers would quit within one year. The Journal says by the turn of the century, the number of American adults who smoke cigarettes would plummet from the current 15 percent to a minuscule 1.4 percent, saving 8 million lives.

    https://www.voanews.com/a/fda-nicoti...s/4301222.html

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