Ban on clove cigarettes
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Feb 15th, 2011Someone from State College, PA signed.
Feb 15th, 2011Someone from State College, PA signed.
Feb 14th, 2011Someone from Circle Pines, MN signed.
Feb 9th, 2011Someone from Pittsburgh, PA signed.
Feb 8th, 2011Someone from New Kensington, PA signed.
Feb 7th, 2011Someone from Temperance, MI signed.
Jan 20th, 2011Someone from Dingmans Ferry, PA signed.
Jan 20th, 2011Someone from Dingmans Ferry, PA writes:
This is an unfair law which imposes on our freedom as american citizens.Jan 18th, 2011Someone from Zephyrhills, FL signed.
Jan 15th, 2011Someone from Zephyrhills, FL signed.
Jan 15th, 2011Someone from Zephyrhills, FL signed.
Jan 15th, 2011Someone from Zephyrhills, FL writes:
If in fact, this ban was designed to protect children then why are adults being considered criminals for smoking them? Many states are passing their own laws that make it illegal for even adults to possess clove cigarettes. If children?s lives were truly the issue, the sale of cigarettes in convenient stores could have been banned, or all cigarettes could have been banned. Not just one particular type of cigarette. Instead, I propose this to protect kids; adults should have to be a registered tobacco user over 18 years of age, identifiable through our S.S. number. Tobacco of any kind would have to be purchased with user verification exclusively in certified Tobacco shops. If kids are found with cigarettes they should go to juvenile hall, and the adult −who contributed to the delinquency of a minor−can be traced by the bar code that is already on every pack. What has the FDA done to eliminate toxic additives found in many cigarettes still available to children? The answer, they mandated the addition of an extinguishing chemical to the list of over 4,000 preexisting chemicals and radioactive materials found in cigarettes that were not mentioned in the ban. Instead, they discriminately focused on cloves and other natural ingredients found in the only cigarettes that I and many other adults can tolerate and enjoy smoking. For decades Big Tobacco has been permitted to deliver deadly addictive chemical additives in tobacco products, and they still haven?t been forced to comply with a ?natural ingredients only? law or faced being shutdown. Perhaps smokers in the USA should unite to form a committee to give ?We the Smokers? a word in what goes into our cigarettes. Clove cigarettes sales have the potential to generate a good deal of taxes in the U.S., which could be used to lower our national deficit. Currently the ban is adding to our national deficit by criminalizing American adults who are simply enjoying a more natural, satisfying cigarette. I strongly feel that repealing this unjust ban and related statutes is an essential first step toward truly protecting our children, and preserving the rights and liberties that define our great nation!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 15th, 2011Someone from Zephyrhills, FL signed.
Jan 12th, 2011Someone from West Chester, OH signed.
Jan 11th, 2011Someone from Cincinnati, OH signed.
Jan 11th, 2011Someone from Cincinnati, OH writes:
I respectfully ask that the ban on flavored cigarettes, or at least clove cigarettes, be repealed.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 6th, 2011Someone from Rochester, MN writes:
Regular cigarettes taste horrible...I would very much like to have my Djarum Blacks back. This is an unfair ban.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 14th, 2010Someone from Odessa, TX signed.
Dec 1st, 2010Someone from Marietta, GA writes:
I am 42 years of age. And, I only smoke clove cigarettes. It upsets me to no end that the American Government has the nerve to tell me I cannot smoke my brand because of children are drawn to the "Flavor". Be real. Children pinch and smoke plain regular cigarettes. Not Djarum Clove Cigarettes. Only about 0.3% of the smoking population even smoke Cloves, so how on earth are they "drawing in children". This was done so that Big American Cig companies could do away with competition. Shame. Repeal this act. Give me my right to choose.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelNov 15th, 2010Someone from Rochester, MI signed.
Jul 29th, 2010Someone from Clute, TX signed.
May 19th, 2010Someone from Tucson, AZ signed.
May 18th, 2010Someone from Fremont, CA writes:
If you must have a ban on flavored cigarettes, why not put a new age limit on them; make them the same regulation as alcohol. This way, you won't have to worry about little johnny being influenced with flavored smokes, and responsible adults can have what they want.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 17th, 2010Someone from Huntington Beach, CA signed.
Apr 30th, 2010Someone from Hemet, CA writes:
This law is a gross violation of every American's civil rights, smoker or non-smoker! We need to fight back now or the consequences we have to pay just might break us as a nation. This country was founded on the basis of personal freedom. Laws made to take away that basic freedom, the freedom to choose for ourselves, have to be stopped cold. Otherwise, what was the point?REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelApr 20th, 2010Someone from Columbus, OH writes:
This ban is so appalling... I can't even believe it's real!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelApr 10th, 2010Someone from Morgan Hill, CA signed.
Mar 29th, 2010Someone from Church Hill, TN writes:
Not only menthol being the exception but if you read the FDA list of banned flavors...licorice is on that list. What does ALL domestic tobacco companies use to mellow the harsh taste of tobacco? LICORICE!!!! Google the PM tobacco ingredients and you'll see for yourself that they are getting away with breaking the new law they helped pen. I'm sure the FDA is well aware of this but it's easy to say screw the kids and look the other way when that bonus from big tobacco pays for their ivy league childs' tuition.....At the cost of our freedom and rights. They are so concerned with the health of smokers that they now allow big tobacco to use a chemical to make the cigarette go out if not puffed on for a few moments. The chemical was never tested on humans so there's another additive to speed up the cause of lung cancer and prevent those who become sick from getting health care. So there yo have it...Ban flavors for profit ( not the kids) and allow more chemicals in domestic brands so you can be denied health care. The govt. has set this up as a win lose situation...they win with tobacco profit and health care costs.... You lose your rights,freedom, health care, and money you gave them for false security. What this country needs is REAL reform. Not the hot air all those fat poloticians vomit but something on the lines of when this country kicked the blueblood's butts all the way back to England. Give me back my rights and quit using MY constitution to line your litter boxes!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 26th, 2010Someone from Lockport, NY signed.
Mar 6th, 2010Someone from Ceres, CA writes:
As an adult, I reserve the right to smoke any flavor tobacco I choose. It is a freedom given to us Americans and we want it back. We ask that the ban on flavored tobacco be repealed and our freedom restored.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 4th, 2010Someone from Kingman, AZ signed.
Feb 28th, 2010Someone from San Jose, CA writes:
ban on clove cigrettes is not fair at all,i could not find it no where in u.s.a!!!!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 24th, 2010Someone from Great Falls, MT writes:
Get your priorities straight Obama! This is rediculous! Our freedom is slowly fading, who knows what's next!?REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 5th, 2010Someone from Rome, GA signed.
Jan 31st, 2010Someone from Lansing, MI writes:
Someone needs to organize an initiative to repeal this, the bill is self defeating claiming to remove flavored tobaccos, while leaving menthol, the #1 kid cigarette in place because its not an import. No no no... See I smell a snake in the grass here, with a stick of menthol still hanging out of its mouth. The come for one of us they come for all of us, smokers unite. If they had banned any other type of cigarettes instead, I would still protest for them, because you know they will come for you too. Its upsetting how far gone this country has become. If this had been Bush that signed this in that would have been one thing, but Obama, a smoke, plastering stickers of hope all over our cities, of who I believed for a split second could actually help this country. I get that you're a liar, you're a politician, but to take my cigarettes away? You guys are assholes.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 12th, 2010Someone from Atlanta, GA signed.
Jan 12th, 2010Someone from Atlanta, GA writes:
Guys, this really sucks, but I don't think we are ever going to get anywhere with this because CLOVE SMOKERS ONLY MAKE UP ABOUT 1% OF THE SMOKING POPULATION. What does this say when legally aged citizens can't buy a product that is well within our rights (or was) to have, but can easily find a bag of weed anywhere. GET YOUR PRIORITIES STRAIGHT, OBAMA.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 8th, 2010Someone from Sedona, AZ writes:
Congress, you make me sick. The real reason that there is a "ban" on traditional cloves is b/c I believe Phillipe Morris bought a large magority of Kretek Internationals stock and then squeezed you guys for jobs. Plus the 2009, 2000%+ increase in tax, which now goes for an "expanded" health care program, is just one of the many ways the Democratic Party is funding, through unfair and pinpointed TARGETING of a specific sector of society. It is not racial targeting like the 60's but much worse. I call it illegal taxation, a demonstration of non-ethical behavior which makes you look good to "most" of the world. Trust me, if you tried to do this to the presecription drug companies, they or the American people would give you Political Suicide, if not worse. Shame Shame ShameREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 30th, 2009Someone from Reynoldsburg, OH writes:
whats next? this is a small demographic of people who most likely didnt buy Philip Morris products.... way to rally against our rights, corner us and eliminate their competition.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 7th, 2009Someone from Charleston, WV writes:
Both of my parents fought in WWII and two of my brothers fought in Vietnam to preserve freedom. We are slowly losing our freedoms. Please work to reverse this decision.REPORT COMMENTS
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