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No sooner did the electrons dry on my last blog than the Senate passed a law to limit nicotine in cigarettes. While DocBrain is a strong believer in the harm of tobacco products, this is as wrong-headed as trying to defend suggesting that a baseball player have sex with a 14 year old because you want to seem uberliberal, funny and cool.
How could anything go wrong, you may ask. Well, here we go.
1. Nicotine is a drug. The higher the dose, the more adverse reactions until you build up a tolerance. This is why many people who try smoking a cigarette get sick and never smoke again. Old School was to let your kid smoke a pack of Luckies. When he threw up after the 5th cigarette, he knew that smoking was not for him. Now, it will be easier to ramp up.
2. High nicotine cigarettes will seem "cool" as they are now outlawed.
3. You can always roll your own. This will become cool again.
4. Once a person has developed a tolerance to nicotine, it produces a feeling of calm and relaxation. Lower dose/cigarette will mean more cigarettes/day. If the person is on a fixed budget, there will be less money for other things, perhaps food for the children.
5. A black market will arise for high nicotine cigarettes, with the money going to organized crime or even terrorism.
6. A lower nicotine cigarette will produce the image that it is safer, leading to less fears about smoking as Congress has made cigarettes "safer". Anyone who knows about the risks of smoking knows that nicotine is only a partial player, as tars and other substances, including possibly the heat itself, are carcinogenic and reduce lung function.
7. Bans on high alcohol content beer didn't work in the past. Hell, bans on marijuana and street drugs aren't working now.
This is a partial list.
In the desire to protect a group (here we go with "groups" again) from the overwhelming wealth and power of the tobacco industry (here we go with "social injustice" again), the liberals have used their limited knowledge about tobacco and addiction (here we go with "junk science" again) and have enacted a new law that will exude unintended consequence and will make the problem worse rather than better.
Rather than reducing nicotine by 50%, why not reduce the maximum prenatal age for abortion from 9 months (partial birth) by 50% to the middle of the second trimester? Oh, yes. That is one "group" that we don't care about!
No sooner did the electrons dry on my last blog than the Senate passed a law to limit nicotine in cigarettes. While DocBrain is a strong believer in the harm of tobacco products, this is as wrong-headed as trying to defend suggesting that a baseball player have sex with a 14 year old because you want to seem uberliberal, funny and cool.
How could anything go wrong, you may ask. Well, here we go.
1. Nicotine is a drug. The higher the dose, the more adverse reactions until you build up a tolerance. This is why many people who try smoking a cigarette get sick and never smoke again. Old School was to let your kid smoke a pack of Luckies. When he threw up after the 5th cigarette, he knew that smoking was not for him. Now, it will be easier to ramp up.
2. High nicotine cigarettes will seem "cool" as they are now outlawed.
3. You can always roll your own. This will become cool again.
4. Once a person has developed a tolerance to nicotine, it produces a feeling of calm and relaxation. Lower dose/cigarette will mean more cigarettes/day. If the person is on a fixed budget, there will be less money for other things, perhaps food for the children.
5. A black market will arise for high nicotine cigarettes, with the money going to organized crime or even terrorism.
6. A lower nicotine cigarette will produce the image that it is safer, leading to less fears about smoking as Congress has made cigarettes "safer". Anyone who knows about the risks of smoking knows that nicotine is only a partial player, as tars and other substances, including possibly the heat itself, are carcinogenic and reduce lung function.
7. Bans on high alcohol content beer didn't work in the past. Hell, bans on marijuana and street drugs aren't working now.
This is a partial list.
In the desire to protect a group (here we go with "groups" again) from the overwhelming wealth and power of the tobacco industry (here we go with "social injustice" again), the liberals have used their limited knowledge about tobacco and addiction (here we go with "junk science" again) and have enacted a new law that will exude unintended consequence and will make the problem worse rather than better.
Rather than reducing nicotine by 50%, why not reduce the maximum prenatal age for abortion from 9 months (partial birth) by 50% to the middle of the second trimester? Oh, yes. That is one "group" that we don't care about!
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