The Daily Background
| Senate passes bill allowing regulation of cigarettes
Filed at 5:55 pm, Thursday June 11th 2009
by Arlen Parsa
by Arlen Parsa
The Senate struck a historic blow against smoking in America Thursday, voting overwhelmingly to give regulators new power to limit nicotine in the cigarettes that kill nearly a half-million people a year, to drastically curtail ads that glorify tobacco and to ban flavored products aimed at spreading the habit to young people.
President Barack Obama, who has spoken of his own struggle to quit smoking, said he was eager to sign the legislation, and the House planned a vote for Friday. Cigarette foes said the measure would not only cut deaths but reduce the $100 billion in annual health care costs linked to tobacco.
Especially great news when you realize that we live in the era of this:
the nicotine in cigarette actually makes me very lively during long driving hours*~;
nicotine can really make you an addict, stay away from cigarettes in the first place “*