FDA Bans Flavored Tobacco
Cited: Reuters
On September 22 the US Food and Drug Administration took the first steps in reining in the tobacco industry implementing a ban on candy, clove and other flavored cigarettes. This ban required a law be passed earlier this year, gives the FDA more power over tobacco products in the hopes of preventing children and teenagers are starting to smoke.
“Candy and fruit flavored cigarettes are a gateway for many children and young adults to become regular tobacco users,” Dr. Lawrence Deyton, head of the FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products, told reporters in a conference call.
In June, President Barack Obama signed legislation allowing the FDA to oversee the manufacturing and marketing of cigarettes and other tobacco products, including regulating ingredients and limiting advertising. The agency must also approve any new tobacco products.
Still, the bill excludes any immediate action on menthol, or mint, flavored cigarettes that are used by as many as 12 million Americans, including most African-American smokers. Lawmakers instead called on the FDA to study the issue. It is not immediately clear how effective the ban will be or what impact it will have on smoking habits.
“Although it will take time for it to have a 100 percent effect … it will have a dramatic effect on children and young women who are most likely to smoke these products,” said Diana Zuckerman, president of the National Research Center for Women & Families.
Children who already smoke may switch to regular cigarettes, but many will be reluctant try smoking if products don’t taste good, she said. “I think it does make it harder for companies to try to get away with anything,” she added.
The ban in unlikely to affect U.S. tobacco companies such as Altria Group Inc’s Philip Morris unit and Lorillard Inc’s Lorillard Tobacco Co, which do not make flavored 
cigarettes. But some advocates have already expressed concern that smaller companies will simply shift their attention to cigars, snuff and other tobacco products not covered by the ban.
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The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, which supported the FDA’s new oversight, said the nation’s top distributor of clove-flavored cigarettes, California-based Kretek International Inc., now sells clove cigars that look and taste like its clove cigarettes.
One company that imports its products, Kretek, could not be immediately reached for comment. Another company Star scientific as well as others that make dissolvable smokeless tobacco products in various flavors they also be affected. The agency said it would discuss other flavored products according to the FDA’s Deyton.
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My Take: As a smoker, I think this is a good thing. However, I do not believe that menthol flavored cigarettes are a big threat. If a child or teenager wants to smoke, they will. It’s the same old adage of, tell them not to and they will. Just like many smokers are told that they cannot smoke in certain places and they still try.
I do agree that smoking is not good for you and that I should not smoke. However, I have other reasons for smoking it still are not good reasons and I still do it. I do admit that I am trying to stop smoking by using an electronic cigarette. It is helping me to reduce the amount of regular cigarettes that I smoke.
I think the main issue with smokers is that it is something that is done by choice and everybody has their freedom of choice. Smoking has always been something people were allowed to do everywhere and only recently have restrictions been implemented. Many of those restrictions smokers do not mind, but others they object to such as not being able to smoke and drive or smoke as they walk down the street. Some cities have implemented a “no smoking allowed” within their city limits. This may cause some problems and I am waiting to see what happens.
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