Ban on clove cigarettes
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Nov 26th, 2015Someone from Olympia, WA writes:
I used to enjoy smoking clove or chocolate flavored cigarettes. I was willing to pay extra for the luxury. It makes no sense to ban flavored cigarettes if we can buy alcohol in chocolate, cotton candy or frosted doughnut varieties as wall as allow flavored nicotine vapor. If health is a concern why is there not more effort made to label ingredients on all consumable products, such as tobacco and GMO foods? Let the consumer be informed and decide what to buy. -
Nov 9th, 2015Someone from Howell, MI signed.
Jul 18th, 2015Someone from Springfield, IL writes:
Banning clove and other flavored cigarettes whilst still allowing the sale of menthol cigarettes, flavored cigars, vaporizer pens and "e-juice" seems more like a sanction on foreign companies instead of being "for the kids". Besides, Philip Morris hasn't said a thing since purchasing Sampoerna, a clove cigarette company.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJul 9th, 2014Someone from Ceres, CA writes:
This is an attack on personal civil liberties. To ban clove cigarettes is just saying you don't want people to have personal freedom to make their choice. This isn't protecting the kids. They still smoke, they still drink. If you insist on protecting children, fine the parents of these kids that insist on breaking the law. Do not punish the thousands of law-abiding citizens. At this point, it's just prohibition. I'm an adult. Let me make my own choices. After all, it's what this country was founded on.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 3rd, 2014Someone from Weston, MA writes:
This ban is fruitless, your not limiting the risk by banning cloves. Youngsters are more influenced by the common ciggerette. Let us occasional clove smokers buy our stuff. At least via Internet. Geez....REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 14th, 2014Someone from Campobello, SC writes:
The ban isn't fair because it was discriminatory. Menthol cigarettes are unjustly allowed.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelApr 2nd, 2014Someone from Orange Park, FL writes:
KILL THE BAN ALREADY!! THIS IS ABSURD!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 5th, 2014Someone from Richardson, TX signed.
Dec 5th, 2013Someone from Katy, TX signed.
Oct 8th, 2013Someone from Kingman, IN writes:
10th Amendment The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 7th, 2013Someone from Pierre, SD signed.
Sep 14th, 2013Someone from Port Richey, FL signed.
Aug 9th, 2013Someone from Dallas, TX writes:
Horribly ineffective way to discourage new smokers. Every smoker I know started on something like Marlboro Reds, then moved on to Menthols or cloves or lights. It's discriminatory and completely an attempt to discourage the purchase of foreign products.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJul 29th, 2013Someone from Magna, UT signed.
May 20th, 2013Someone from Carmichael, CA writes:
This is unfair and discriminatory. Beer and alcohol is seen more are high school parties than cloves. Teenagers have asked me to buy them beer, not cloves. Yet, alcohol is not banned in the US.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 18th, 2012Someone from Tampa, FL signed.
Dec 15th, 2012Someone from Orlando, FL writes:
Can't believe this is still going on. The Gov't should ban Menthol too if they're going to stick to this. Bring cloves back already!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 12th, 2012Someone from Niagara Falls, NY writes:
Please end the ban on my NON-AMERICAN cigarettes!!!!!! I am a 40 year old woman, who started smoking with Marlboro regulars, not flavored cigarettes! NO ONE I know started smoking with clove cigarettes, they are an acquired taste for adults - like me! I assume personal responsibility for my own behavior, I should have a choice!!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelNov 28th, 2012Someone from Rockford, IL writes:
The ban on Clove cigarettes is another example of Government regulating personal behavior. The companies worked around the ban by selling the product as cigars.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 14th, 2012Someone from Midland, TX signed.
Aug 9th, 2012Someone from Katy, TX signed.
Aug 8th, 2012Someone from Portland, OR signed.
Jun 24th, 2012Someone from Gastonia, NC writes:
There's no point in banning clove flavored smokes. How about banning bacon? It's appealing, delicious and can be sold to any one. However, it's just about as bad for your health if consumed daily. However, the government isn't going to ban that it's not a threat to the U.S. tobacco industry. God forbid that Indonesia get too much money from their clove sales. They may just scrape up enough change to take over the world.(JK) I know this all sounds ridiculous, but so is the banning of a certain flavor when you allow the worst part to remain.. the cigarette itself. End the ban on cloves.. it's pointless, and it's encroaching on my liberties. Isn't that what America's all about?REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 14th, 2012Someone from San Angelo, TX signed.
May 12th, 2012Someone from Longview, WA writes:
Please give us out rights back! Let us parents be responsible for what our kids do, not the government. It's not your place to dictate how or what kids do. Do you really think kids are going to spend twice as much to get a pack of cloves or spend half that amount and get cheep cigarettes. Kids get what ever they can get there hands on and people should be able to make there own decisions on whether they want to smoke or not we all know what it does to us we just choose to anyway. Stay out of our personal rights please.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 2nd, 2012Someone from Kittredge, CO signed.
Jan 25th, 2012Someone from Reno, NV signed.
Nov 22nd, 2011Someone from Shingle Springs, CA signed.
Sep 15th, 2011Someone from Garfield, NJ writes:
im very dissapointed with the ruling to ban clove cigarettes. think about it, they sell K12 in any convience store. mariguana is legal in some states. they even sell flavord cigars! what sense does it make to ban clove cigarettes? I am way past the age of 21 and I cannot enjoy my favorite cigarettes. Please bring back my clove cigarettes . thank youREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJul 22nd, 2011Someone from Pratt, KS signed.
Jul 19th, 2011Someone from Shreveport, LA writes:
As a former young smoker I can say that the idea clove cigarettes are designed to or in any way promote, encourage, or serve as a gateway for kids to start smoking is completely false. The problem is with the enforcemnet of the laws that are suppose to protect children from cigarettes of all kind. A nation wide ban on clove cigarettes for allegedly promoting children to smoke by covering up the intense sensation caused by smoking makes no more sense than banning all Toyotas because the seats in the car can be raised high enough for kids to see over the steering wheel and still operate the pedals. The ban on clove cigarettes is nothing mor than a blatant attempt by domestic tobacco manufacturers to eliminate foreign competition, and I must say I am highly upset that congress has allowed itself to be so easily and completely swayed by special interest groups. As a person who grew up in a disadvantaged area of the country I can personally attest that clove cigarettes is more than the absolue least problem facing our country's youth today it isnt even on the radar.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJul 13th, 2011Someone from San Diego, CA writes:
Repeal this ban. It's unconstitutional. Not unlike Prohibition. I started smoking Cloves for the flavor but never "transitioned" to normal cigarettes, they taste gross. If this ban was intended to disuade kids from smoking I contend they will start with the cheapest thing they can get their hands on. Cloves and other "flavored" cigarettes are not it. Congress please stop telling me, a full grown adult, what I can and can not smoke because some study tried to paint it as saving our youth. Guess what... kids are still smoking. Kids are still drinking. Kids are still doing drugs. Please let me smoke what I want with the freedom our great Country was founded upon.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 17th, 2011Someone from Saraland, AL writes:
The land of the free and Congress is steadily taking things away. ANd yeah kids will always smoke because it's something they are not allowed to do smoke, and the best things in life are things in life are things we can not have. That is why kids smoke. And most kids smoke whatever their parents are smoking.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 11th, 2011Someone from Leesburg, OH writes:
Please bring back our freedon=m of choice on clove cigarettes.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 9th, 2011Someone from Marietta, GA signed.
Apr 28th, 2011Someone from Sterling Heights, MI writes:
Children will always smoke as long as there are cigarettes. Allow adult American's to decide for themselves what they should and shouldn't smoke. There are plenty of laws on the books banning underage smoking, enforce those instead of penalizing everyone.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelApr 13th, 2011Someone from San Diego, CA signed.
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Mar 29th, 2011Someone from Sugar Land, TX writes:
The notion that clove cigarettes are intended to entice young non-smokers into the habit, frankly, isn't supported by the facts. Compared with menthols, smoked by about 43% of young smokers, clove cigarettes (*excuse me* "cigars") account for less than 1% cigarettes sold, including by young smokers. This ban is nothing more than phillip morris's way of keeping competing products off the marketREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 28th, 2011Someone from Macomb, IL writes:
I respectfully ask that the ban on flavored cigarettes, or at least clove cigarettes, be repealed.REPORT COMMENTS
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