06.24
By royal decree, our great President Obama has made flavor illegal.
“The measure, which Obama signed into law Monday, will ban candy-, fruit- and spice-flavored cigarettes and prohibit use of tobacco-product logos and brand names in sponsoring athletic and entertainment events.” Via LA Times
Can I ask how this is possible? How can you ban a flavor by law? I can understand banning advertisements in schools. I can understand banning the ingredients that are actually harmful. But flavor? Is this what should be considered effective governing?
I thought that you were a president for change, one who would make a difference. If you really want change, then either make the damn things illegal or get the hell off the cigarette companies backs. All this dancing around and pretending to do something when you aren’t really doing anything is just damn ridiculous. Does anybody else see this as a complete waste of our tax payer dollars?
But of course he isn’t going to do anything useful either way on this matter. If he doesn’t make up some law to crack down on the tobacco companies, then he’ll not be living up to his liberal expectations. If he actually does something that makes a difference, then he’ll be known as the man who killed 50,000 US jobs and $13 billion in tax revenue, two things that don’t really look good on a liberal resume.
But that’s government and politicians for you. Useless is as useless does…