Seven years after being rebuffed by the Supreme Court, anti-smoking advocates are again seeking federal regulation of tobacco, a step they say is needed to deter children from lighting up and to get smokers to quit.
“It would have a huge public-health impact. This is a product that when used as directed is lethal,” said Wendy Selig of the American Cancer Society’s Cancer Action Network.The group is among those pushing to give the Food and Drug Administration authority over cigarettes and other tobacco products – just like the regulatory agency already has over countless other consumer products. A bipartisan group of lawmakers was to reintroduce legislation Thursday to do so.
“We are quite excited about the possibility that we may very well get it done this time around,” said Joel Spivak, a spokesman for the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.
Here we go with the nanny state again. How fed up with this are you going to get over the next two years? Maybe enough people will be tired by then of the Democrats trying to control your money, and the republicans trying to control your morality that we will put some people in office who want to change things for the better. I’m not holding my breath on that though, it seems that we have too many people now that want the government to take care of them from cradle to grave.